Boston City Jul 14

Exploring downtown Boston
0001   BOSTON - CITY 0002 0003   Pedicabs abound 0004
0005   The Hynes Convention Center 0006 0007   Prudential Center 0008   This Spanish bank has established a US toehold in just the Boston area
0009   An entrance to the Prudential shopping area 0010 0011 0012
0068   An entrance to the Prudential mall 0070   Inside the Prudential mall, which joins several downtown buildings 0071 0072
0013 0014 0015   Heading out on a DUCK tour. These amphibious boats are a larger, diesel-engined copy of the WW II DUKW. 0016
0017 0027 0028   A T station 0029   The current Massachusetts state house
0030 0031   A graffitoed section of the Berlin Wall 0032   The cable-stayed bridge up there. the world's widest, leads I-95 traffice into the Big Dig tunnel 0033
0034 0035   On the Charles River with our DUCK 0036 0037
0038   This river canal functions as a lock in some periods of high tide, but at most times is a straight-through passage 0039 0040 0041
0042   A T train on the surface 0043   New condos 0044 0045   Brudge abutments that incorporate a Viking ship image
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0058 0059 0060   This is actually a sculpture 0061
0062   Back on land in the DUCK... 0063 0064 0065
0066 0067   End of the DUCK tour, near the Sheraton 0073 0074   The Sheraton hotel entrance
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0079 0080 0081   An inner courtyard 0082
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0106 0107 0108   A food truck 0109   Near Coplet Square
0110   ...which has an especially ornate T station 0111 0112 0113
0114 0115   The Trinity Chutch, onde of the founding Episcopal churches in this denominationn as it became established as the Ameriucan province of Anglicanism 0116 0117
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0122 0123 0124   Boston Common, the nation's oldest city park 0125
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0138 0139 0140 0141   The last surviving store of "Piano row." The rest of the block is now Emerson College.
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0146 0147   The Parkman Bandstand 0148   A moniument to the Boston Massacre 0149
0150 0151 0152 0153   Along Beacon Street beside the Common
0154 0155   The Robert Gould Shaw menument to black soldiers in the Civil War 0156 0158
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0167   This exterior on Beacon Street was used as the weekly establishing shot in the TV series "Cheers." The interior was a Hollywood set. 0168 0169 0170
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0175 0176 0177   A memorial to Alexander Hamilton 0178
0179 0180   The Commonwealth Mall, a wide green median running from Boston Common through the Back Bay nehborhood 0181   Bay State College, a campus of several buildings on Commonwealth 0182   A monument to a crew of firefighters who were killed in the Vendome Club fire in 1972. Before 9/11, this was one of the largest firefighter death tolls in the US.
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0187 0188   Back on Boylston Street at Copley Square 0189 0190
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0204 0205   The Cathedral Church of St Paol 0206 0207
0208   The Granary Burial Ground near the Common 0209   Several Founders are buried here 0210 0211   Robert Treat Paine wqas a signer of the Declaraoon of Independence
0212 0213 0214   The Franklin family tomb. Benjamin Franklin himself is buried in Philadelphia. 0215
0216   John Hancock, best known signer of the Declaration . 0217 0218 0219
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0224 0225 0226   A monument  to knowledge at the Boston Public Library 0227
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0100 0101 0102 0103   One of the new Microsoft stores
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0096 0157   The monument of a St Gaudens design 0228 0229   Walking the Freedom Trail...
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0241 0243 0244 0245   An early Unitarian church
0246 0247   The original City Hall 0248 0249
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0254 0255 0256   The Old South Meeting House, where the Tea Party convened 0257
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0262 0263   The original civic spring 0264 0265
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0274   The old City Hall 0275   State Streeet is the Boston banking district 0276 0277
0278   Near Faneuil Hall, the current City Hall, cited as an example of Brutalist architecture 0279 0280   The crowds converge on Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall 0281
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0310 0311   Faneuil Hall 0312 0313
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0318   The North End district, originally an Italian neighborhood and locale of the 1919 molasses flood 0319 0320 0321
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0338   The Paul Revere Mall began as a WPA project 0339 0340 0341
0342 0343 0344 0345   Old North Chutrch, where Paul Revere hung his lanterns
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0362 0363 0364   Sidewalk sculptures indicate the site of the weekly fish market 0365
0366 0367   The USS Constitution, R battleship built for the War of 1812 and still commissioned 0368 0369
0370 0371   Jellyfish in the harbor 0372 0373
0374 0375   In the area of Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science Church 0376 0377
0378   The home of Boston Magazine 0379 0380 0381
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