This page is for photos, from then and now, that anyone would like to share.
PLEASE BE PATIENT IN WAITING FOR THE PICTURES ON THIS PAGE TO FULLY LOAD. GO HAVE A NICE DISH OF JELLO, CLOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE THE CEILING OF THE ORIENTAL THEATER, REMEMBER FEEDING THE GOATS AT THE FRANKLIN PARK ZOO WHEN YOU WERE FIVE, OR TASTE THAT DELICIOUS PIZZA THAT YOU WERE ALLOWED TO GET ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS FROM THE FROSTY ICE CREAM TRUCK. WHEN YOU'RE DONE, OPEN YOUR EYES AND YOU SHOULD SEE ALL THE PICTURES.
Mr. Horan's 7th-grade homeroom
class picture, Solomon Lewenberg Junior High School, spring 1964. Courtesy of Danny Marcus
Row 1, left to right: Lillian Flashman, Stephanie Cline, Janette Charney, Ellen Bloomberg(?), Robin Shaer, Jane Berger, Toby Bloomberg, Ann Mitchell(?), Marian Solomon
Row 2, left to right: Robert Murphy, David Rosenfield, Arthur Bembury, Yvonne Roundtree, Janice Gamer, Donna Miller, Donna Stubbs, Cynthia Cohen, Ginny Lancy, Florette Cayem, Robert Magner, David Akins
Row 3, left to right: Richard Sher, Stephen Finkel, David Paisner, Vincent Guess, Robert Katz, Paul Trusten, Richard Needleman, David Maibor, Stuart
Levine, Alan Sadur, Stuart Ross, Richard Echlov, Danny Marcus, Neal Showstack
Second grade, Audubon School, 1959. Courtesy of Danny Marcus
Row 1, left to right: Ricky Wiener, Steven Alvarez, Richard Sher, Richard Odoardi, Danny Marcus, Barry Miller
Row 2, left to right: Michael Kramer, Carol Fir, Unknown, Glenda Feldman, Carol Keesan, Audrey Lazarus, Janet Fund, Leslie (or Laurie) Ferrin, Janette Charney, Unknown
Row 3, left to right: Alan Miller, Joyce Azanow, Susan Slavet, Deborah Cohn(?), Deborah Goldberg, Unknown, Susan Licter(?), Unknown, Unknown, Barbara Wexler, Gloria Greene, Unknown
Row 4, left to right: Unknown, Laurie (or Leslie) Ferrin, Howard Smokler, Lorry Isenstein, David Oberman, Stanley Chastein, Gary Weiner, Peter Ginsberg, ??Barbara Zimmerman??
The entrance to the projects at 60 Stratton St. as it looks today
The back of the project as it looks today. The clotheslines were removed a few years ago, the stairs leading to the cellar have been replaced by benches and grass, and each apartment has its own outside entrance.
Walking past what used to be the Roger Wolcott School, down Norfolk Street towards the Pauline Shaw School, August 1999. The Wolcott has been replaced by a Walgreens.
A view of Franklin Field from what used to be the Esso Station at the corner of Blue Hill Ave. and Stratton St. August 25, 1999
The Swan Boats in June 2001, courtesy of Alan Klein
From Jack Murphy, August 2004: "I recently swung through Mattapan Square and Norfolk Street to visit and photograph my old neighborhood of Norfolk St., Milton Ave., and Woodrow Avenue. I lived across from the Victory Market, otherwise known as "Sam's" for Sam Freedman and his brother Charlie. I lived at 16 Milton Ave. from 1935 to 1947, right next to Mike's Variety Store on the corner. The photo shows the Victory Market building now, in August, 2004. In those days, there used to be an oil company on the right side only. Ross' Pie store was on the left, and the Victory Market was in the center. Sam and Charlie were practically our only source of groceries in those days before supermarkets and the luxury of cars. Not only that, but they delivered the groceries to your home in wooden boxes on a cart with three metal wheels. Sam was a man with snow white hair and ruddy cheeks and a very kindly disposition. Very pleasant memories."
This is 16 Milton Ave. in August 2004. Jack says the house "used to be covered in the old imitation red brick asphalt siding. Now, as you can see, it has new siding. It had been squeezed in with four feet on either side. With the landlord's bungalow and barn now gone, the new owners have off street parking, a lawn, flowers and a chain link fence. They had newfound room to add a side deck, too. In front of their steps, they proudly displayed a welcome mat with their names. They have much of which to be proud. The dormer on the second floor was my room. It was the smallest of the three bedrooms, and being the only boy, I got it. The front room was the largest and my five sisters had it. My folks were in the left rear."
Mike's Variety Store, August 2004, where, Jack says, "I worked, with its soda fountain, from age 10 till I was 15. I then moved to downtown Boston's Liggett's Drug Store as "experienced" for an extra four cents an hour--$.63 instead of only $.59 like a newby. The variety store was locked up for the second day in a row, a neighbor told me. I could barely see through the busy window. I could see the stamped tin ceiling was still there. Its faded light green paint was probably a full century old by now. At the end of the soda fountain, where the tobacco sales began, they had a pipe-fed gas cigar lighter with a continually lit pilot light. My working for Mike began when my friends and I would converge after school for our penny candy. When he was busy he would let me go behind the counter to wait on them. Talk about being a big shot."
