The Japanese Garden at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, around 1910-

"Mrs. Jack Gardner's Venetian Palace", now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston's Back Bay, on a postcard postmarked 1908-

This card is addressed to a "Miss Anne Hitchcock" of Utica, New York and has an interesting inscription- "I still want you but am going away in July. Will write a letter soon, Love FBS". You have to wonder...
Here is the Esplanade in Boston along the Charles River on a 1923 postcard. Today Storrow Drive's ugly four concrete lanes go right through ths scene-

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I was looking at some old postcards from where I used to live as a kid. It is amazing how beautiful things used to be and how ugly they have become.
I know- on the one hand, one does not like to be too judgmental, on the other hand, one has to say- god, have we made things ugly!!
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