There's nothing here but echoes

[sovay]

Today's excitements included a more complicated dentist's appointment than originally envisioned and having to stop very suddenly short on I-93, but I did technically find my way to Scollay Square.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Pretty, in its way. I started to ask whether that's what people call brutalist in style, remembered I could use the internet, and found that it's made with the blood of social injustices.

[sovay]

I started to ask whether that's what people call brutalist in style, remembered I could use the internet, and found that it's made with the blood of social injustices.

Yes. The West End is still within living memory. I knew about it first because of Leonard Nimoy.

[gwynnega]

Complicated dentistry is never fun. ::hugs::

[sovay]

Complicated dentistry is never fun.

*hugs*

Dinner plans were determined by not having to chew.

[radiantfracture]

Those both sound bad enough independently; I hope they were not related.

I hope your soft food was at least delicious.

[sovay]

Those both sound bad enough independently; I hope they were not related.

Thank you. One was on the way to the other. I think it was superfluous.

I hope your soft food was at least delicious.

Chopped liver on a challah roll! On its own merits, a real dinner.

[minoanmiss]

Ah, that big concrete hulk. I used to walk past it twice a day once upon a job.

*Sends healing vibes*

[sovay]

Ah, that big concrete hulk. I used to walk past it twice a day once upon a job.

I have genuine architectural affection for it and am so confused that there are now trees in the plaza.

*hugs*

[minoanmiss]

A barren windswept plain!

hugs you back

[sovay]

A barren windswept plain!

DW-comments should be eligible for Official Posts of Massachusetts.

[moon_custafer]

I can’t recall if I’ve ever told you about Robarts Library, but if you like Brutalism, it’s a gem: https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news/robarts-library-50-how-fort-book-became-campus-living-room

[sovay]

I can’t recall if I’ve ever told you about Robarts Library, but if you like Brutalism, it’s a gem

I believe you had told me about it, but not provided photographic evidence. Thank you!

[moon_custafer]

When in Toronto, Lord Vader stays downtown at the beautiful Robarts Research Library!

[choco_frosh]

Ah, Fort Book.

[thisbluespirit]

More complicated dentistry is never a good thing to add to a day! *hugs*

Great angle in the photo, though.

Btw, idk if you are up to playing around with it or if it would be sufficiently useful/amusing, but the Brit Newspaper Archive site that I subscribe to sometimes is currently free on Find My Past until the 16th, to celebrate hitting 100 million pages. (Chiefly local papers, but a couple of nationals, and various professional journals and things, including The Stage): https://www.findmypast.co.uk/home

[sovay]

Great angle in the photo, though.

Thank you! The other one I was really pleased with was the composed-itself juxtaposition of the City Hall flags with the brick remnant of the neighborhood that predated the plaza. (The lost and remembered by its absence Scollay Square. Always something doing.)



Btw, idk if you are up to playing around with it or if it would be sufficiently useful/amusing, but the Brit Newspaper Archive site that I subscribe to sometimes is currently free on Find My Past until the 16th, to celebrate hitting 100 million pages. (Chiefly local papers, but a couple of nationals, and various professional journals and things, including The Stage)

That is pretty obviously relevant to my interests. Thank you for letting me know!

[thisbluespirit]

That is also a very cool pic!!

[sovay]

That is also a very cool pic!!

Thank you! I have a very photogenic city.

[choco_frosh]

But did you change for Jamaica Plain??

[sovay]

But did you change for Jamaica Plain??

I was out of nickels!

[asakiyume]

I have extra appreciation for your having gotten to Scollay Square now that I've accessed the walking directions ;-)

... Complicated dental appointments, by contrast, earn more dread than appreciation

[sovay]

I have extra appreciation for your having gotten to Scollay Square now that I've accessed the walking directions

I have never really acclimated to the 2014 renovation of the Government Center T station, but I love that it uncovered, restored, and put back in place the original mosaic signs for Scollay Square Station, including the lower platform of Scollay Under. A real ghost station.

... Complicated dental appointments, by contrast, earn more dread than appreciation

I survived it and ate chopped liver!

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs*

That's a neat photo!

[sovay]

That's a neat photo!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[a_reasonable_man]

I'm sorry to hear about the dental ambush, and the sudden stop on 93 sounds alarming, but I'm glad you made it to the place where ghost of Leonard Nemoy's Scollay Square lives. There are ghosts layered upon ghosts there. I always see the ghost of William Lloyd Garrison's Scollay Square (the offices of the _Liberator_ were on Cornhill Street).