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By the 1950s, Boston's West End had turned into a working poor residential area with scattered businesses with small meandering roads much like the North End. According to most residents, the West End was a good place to live at this time. [9]
In 1989, the editors of the West Ender Newsletter and members of the West End Historical Association developed a preliminary plan for a West End Museum. In 1991, The Old West End Housing Corporation (OWEHC) was formed as a Community Development Corporation (CDC) with the mission of developing affordable housing for former West End residents who had been displaced by the Urban Renewal programs ...
RKO-Boston: 1930s 1950s Washington Street, corner Essex Street Scenic Temple 20th century Berkeley Street and Warren Avenue [3] School-Street Opera House [1] 19th century School Street: Scollay Square Olympia Theatre 20th century Scollay Theatre 1913 1962 Tremont Row: Seville Theatre 1930 circa 1970 circa East Boston: Siege of Paris Opera House ...
1950 January 17: Great Brink's Robbery. Federation of South End Settlements [111] and Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts [28] established. Population: 801,444. 1951 June 15: Storrow Drive opens. October 6: WGBH (FM) begins broadcasting. [132] Museum of Science opens. Long Island Viaduct (bridge) built. [133] 1954 – Schillinger House renamed ...
He is best known for his photographs of Boston's ethnically diverse West End and predominantly Italian North End neighborhoods, taken during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Much of the West End was razed in the late 1950s as part of a large-scale urban renewal project, making Aarons's photographs of the area especially important for historical ...
Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...
A 1920 plan for Boston's Central Artery, based on the West Side Elevated Highway Traffic on the former Central Artery at mid-day (Demolished in 2003). A 1926 state report on rapid transit expansion recommended the conversion of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated to an elevated highway; however, it closed in 1938 and was demolished in 1942. [4]
0–9. 1949–50 Boston Bruins season; 1949–50 Boston Celtics season; 1950 Boston Braves season; 1950 Boston College Eagles football team; 1950 Boston Red Sox season