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

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

The joy of cycling, beautifully captured.

(via Daily life: March 2012 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

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.

Interesting perspective although I question the utility of the roofless apartment building.

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.)

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

The birth of one of my favorite songs.

life:

Did you know? — On this day in 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote one of his best known folk songs, “This Land is Your Land.”

Pictured: Woody Guthrie entertains commuters, 1943. “There’s a feeling in music and it carries you back down the road you have traveled and makes you travel it again. Sometimes when I hear music I think back over my days — and a feeling that is fifty-fifty joy and pain swells like clouds taking all kinds of shapes in my mind.”

(see more here)

The thing that amazes me about this photo is that it appears that the spectators are almost completely vertical.  Talk about every seat being close to the action. 

mightyflynn:

Roy Campanella, ca. 1955

(photo by Francis Miller)

allcreatures:

A squirrel appears to give a toy dinosaur a kiss. The squirrel eyed up the plastic prehistoric toy on a garden table before moving in to give it a hug. It then leant over to plant a kiss on its mouth - all the while cradling the T-Rex’s head. But the inter-species romantic attraction has a simple explanation. Photographer Elliott C Nathan had placed a seed in the dinosaur’s mouth. He explains: “I took these photos in my yard in Boulder, Colorado. I spent about half an hour getting the squirrel to trust me with seeds then I started putting them onto things. He was careful about the dinosaur at first, but finally his hunger got the best of him and he went in for the kiss.” Picture: Elliott C Nathan/Rex Features

Reblogged for the beautiful photograph.

boston:

Mass. braces for winter freeze

- Arctic air is expected to blanket the region starting tonight, with temperatures expected to drop to as low as 5 degrees below zero in some areas.

(Associated Press File Photo by Robert F. Bukaty)

bostonianresolution:

There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in