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The Value Of These Shorts
Billy Bitzer seems to have climbed aboard a trolley car in Boston and shot a series of shorts, later stitched together to give a portrait ofa city ofgreat contrasts.
I knew Boston better about 35 years ago. By that time it had changed; in eighty years how could it not? Yet there were still the remnants of the ad hoc construction, rail tracks forty feet above the street, held in place, it seemed, with scrap wood, just like it was in 1906, concrete begrimed with seemingly decades of neglect, and a few solid, majestic buildings. Like most cities, Boston was -- in 1906 and the mid 1980s -- simultaneously falling apart and being built with an eye for the ages.
I suspect it's still that way.
I knew Boston better about 35 years ago. By that time it had changed; in eighty years how could it not? Yet there were still the remnants of the ad hoc construction, rail tracks forty feet above the street, held in place, it seemed, with scrap wood, just like it was in 1906, concrete begrimed with seemingly decades of neglect, and a few solid, majestic buildings. Like most cities, Boston was -- in 1906 and the mid 1980s -- simultaneously falling apart and being built with an eye for the ages.
I suspect it's still that way.
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- boblipton
- Jun 22, 2021
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