Boston: pics from my recent trip: lots of pics

[le calmar]

Boston is one fine city, thanks for your pics. Did you notice how old were some of the tombstones you saw? Most of them dates back to the 1600's!

[Sandy]

Thanks everyone for these nice comments

Now the last part:

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The weather wasn't very good that day so no pano with the view of the city from there

Back to town

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Newbury street

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Back downtown through the park (I named it the Charles River Park as I don't know its real name, I couldn't find it on maps, except The Esplanade but it's a bizarre name for a park )
edit : thanks to Blade Bltz, I'm knowing now that I was wrong

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195. I don't live in this beautiful city, then I don't really have the right to critic, but these buildings are so ugly that I'd like to say TEAR THEM DOWN!!



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Walking to the waterfront

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I followed the Tocoto's advice (city discussions), and went up in the Customhouse Tower...

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The end... that was a really big thread!! thanks for viewing and thanks for the advice given by some of you, unfortunatly I didn't have enough time to follow each ones, but it'll for my next visit

I'll post a new post in the next few days with my pics of Harvard-MIT and Salem

I didn't name everything I show but except for most of new buildings (names are welcome if you know them) and since my memory is still fresh, ask me for details, maybe I learned enough to tell you what
it is.

[Sandy]

Originally Posted by le calmar

Boston is one fine city, thanks for your pics. Did you notice how old were some of the tombstones you saw? Most of them dates back to the 1600's!

Yes I saw that, I took some pics of more recent tombstones, it was easier to read the year of death.

[JackStraw]

wow, very cool shots Sandy. I love Boston. I've been trying to get back there, but never have the extra cash to go.

Great thread.

[Wheelingman04]

Thanks for the photos. Boston is one of the world's greatest cities!!

[urbanlife]

amazing tour, definitely a city I need to visit. Great shots all around as well.

A few comments on the city, the Boston City Hall, while you might not like it, is a great example of a movement that happened that tried to redefine architecture as a permanent places. The city hall is meant to look weighted and solid because it was a backlash that was happening against the modern movement about barely touching the ground and having large window planes that make the building almost disappear. Of course with that said, the plaza is horribly designed and needs to be redesigned.

Another statement on Boston, while it might be a general statement and I understand the history of water in cities, Boston definitely looks as if water is a burden towards development. The city has grown tremendously over the water and marsh land that use to be there. It is funny how we were so willing to build cities on such swampy locations back then.

[stax]

Nice panos! And its good to see that you took pics of the library as well, probably one of the best libraries in the US!

[blade_bltz]

Nice pics. Just so you know, "Charles River Park" and the Esplanade are two VERY different things. The Esplanade, which you photographed, is one of Boston's treasures. Charles River Park is the site of Boston's worst redevelopment project, which came at the cost of a neighborhood the size of North End.

[ShadowMaster]

Quality set! Love the panos also! Keep on adding!

[Austinlee]

Good god; If Boston were a female I would try and have intercourse with she.

[Inkdaub]

Best Boston set I've seen yet.

[Siriusly]

Boston reminds me of London...

[TXLove]

Such a great thread!!!! Thanks!!!!

[greenday38]

Merci pour les photos.

[10101000]

Some more good ones! Thanks again

[Cirrus]

Oh god I love Boston.

Love it love it love it.

[Spring2008]

Wow great character and density, some of the cities in the U.S are phenomenal!

[Sandy]

Thanks for all these comments

To continue the tour, see my Cambridge & Salem thread here

[Swinefeld]

Originally Posted by Shawn

I never realized how much we do up the city for Halloween before . . . great pics, Sandy! I'm glad you enjoyed Boston.



By the way, did you know that the future king of France, Louis Phillippe, lived in this restaurant 's second floor in 1796? He earned a living teaching French to the Bostonian aristocracy.

And the lobster newberg is really good there. Yummy.

[ozone]

Wonderful shots of a wonderful city. Lots of cities talk about about being or becoming 'world class' -Boston is and has been for a long time.

Time in New England took me away to long rocky beaches --and you, by the bay. Thanks for taking me back!