This is just an amazing shot of Washington Street in Jamaica Plain 25 years ago when the elevated came down.

theelevated:

Old Orange Line demolition. Fall,  1987

Photo by Chris Lovett

via Neighborhood Network News.

Helen F. Moore,

published in Century Magazine, 1896

Awesome of the day: Mr. Met on a bicycle.

(via GO, METS, GO! New York Mets 1961-1969 - slide 9 - NY Daily News)

transitmaps:

Unofficial Historical Map: An Animated History of the MBTA

This is something you just have to look at: an amazing animated timeline of the Boston MBTA Subway over at Andrew Lynch’s Vanshnookenraggen blog (check out his future MBTA maps while you’re there).

To my mind, this work is far superior to the animated history of the New York Subway map that was floating around the interwebs a little while back: it’s clearly dated on the map, it’s fully annotated, and even has a slide show version below the animated GIF so you can flick through the years at your own pace. What’s fascinating to me is the almost complete reinvention of transit in Boston as the original elevated lines get torn down and replaced by subway.

An amazing work, and fully worthy of a 5 star rating. I’m not going to steal Andrew’s thunder by posting the full GIF here: click on the image or here to visit his site and watch the years roll by!

(via England’s All-Time Top Flight Table)

A fascinating look at the all-time standings for English football teams in the top division.  Only 35 clubs have competed in the top tier over 124 years.  This is interesting when you consider that in North America a typical successful sports’ league has 30-32 teams. 

dreammonn:

I will always reblog this.

Perhaps the greatest game in Mets history and not just because they won.

thebostonglobe:

First trolley of Boston’s present-day MBTA system. “Allston,” “Pearl St.,” and “Park St.” displayed on the car. 9/1/1897

On a sunny fall afternoon at 3:30 p.m. on September 25, 1948, this rare color photo of Braves Field in Boston was taken from a seat in the left field pavilion. The photographer captured Jeff Heath in front of the Wigwam’s new electric scoreboard as the Tribe left fielder was about to haul in a fly ball third out off the bat of NY Giants catcher Sal Yvars in the eighth inning. 

via St. Louis Browns Fan Club

Hard to believe that there’s still a little bit of Braves Field left at Boston University.

This is a really cool video showing a drive around Boston using a time lapse camera.  Analysis at Universal Hub determined that this was filmed around 1964 rather than 1958.  It’s amazing how recognizable everything is after 50 years!  I’d love to watch it a slower speed.

Another destination for my time machine: Fin de siècle Coney Island

(via Dreamland: 1905 | Shorpy Historical Photo Archive)

Cool story of a photo found in the US National Archives that shows a young,pre-polio Franklin Roosevelt (then Asst. Secretary of the Navy) inspecting a ship under construction in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That ship would become the USS Arizona which would be sunk at Pearl Harbor.

(via NARAtions » Finding FDR in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: An example of “One NARA” at work.)

housingworksbookstore:

276. Geoffrey Chaucer (by tom gauld)
Tom Gauld is amazing and his new book, Goliath, is out today from Drawn & Quarterly. All news you need to know.

I want a side-by-side tandem bike just like this.