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Boston trolley ride 1903

This is an excerpt of footage from a 1903 Edison Biograph film. A camera was mounted on the front of a trolley as it meandered through the streets of Boston. Edison would hire and train crews to r...  
 
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luckyowl249 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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Boston's still a charming city! Many thanks for sharing!
tafatmit (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Astounding - thanks so much for posting!
rainydaywoman1957 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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i want more of these!
donnar50 (1 year ago) Show Hide
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What a beautiful time capsule! Dennis Lehane (of Mystic River fame)recently released a mystery novel of Boston in the early 20th century. He read an excerpt from it two years ago at the Cape Cod writers conference describing a police strike march held on the many of those same streets during that era. How evocative these images are! Now I want to read that book at once! Boston was a bustling hub even then!

Incredible images on a miserable cloudy day.
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OK, that was absolutely incredible. I felt like I was in a time machine. What a wonder YouTube is!!!! Did you see? It went right in front of Jordan's, and then the scene changed and it was on Boylston Street, took a left on Dartmouth, in Copley Square. Maybe it was headed down Huntington Avenune from there. Amazing, absolutely amazing. THANK YOU.
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The start of the Green Line.

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