By adamg on Wed., 10/14/2015 - 10:58 am 
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can place this scene. See it larger.
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Charles Street
By Waquiot
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:02am
Common on the right, Public Garden on the left.
For sure!
By Gary C
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:02pm
The two tall buildings in the distance (at Beacon & Charles) are still there.
Horse shoes come off, riders
By Brent Jeffries
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:12am
Horse shoes come off, riders scoff.
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By Elmer
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:48pm
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/charles-st.jpg[/img]
What on earth is that subject
By MattyC
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 11:45am
What on earth is that subject line? 2-lambda? The font makes it look vaguely Hangul-esque.
Hmm
By cybah
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:19pm
I can never see his subjects.. shows up as a box.
Are you posting from a phone elmer? (or a Mac?)
Apparently It Looks Different, Depending On The Browser
By Elmer
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:43pm
With Safari on a Mac, it's completely blank — indicating no subject at all is intended for the post.
However, on Chrome and Opera, it's a blank box; and on Firefox, it's a rectangle with "F076" inside. Of course, everyone should be using Safari on a Mac, but since they don't, I'll try to find another character for this purpose that appears more consistent, but which also means nothing at all.
oh
By cybah
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:52pm
I'm on a Windows machine using Chrome. (On Windows IE, it shows up as nothing)
You have to be careful with extended characters like that. Many are OS-specific. (those emoticons from Facebook also come to mine). The web page encoding will ignore OS-specific extended characters and convert them to ISO-standard ones or a box or empty to display if nothing comparable is avaliable.
Not saying don't do that.. just saying that non-Mac Safari peeps can't decode them to know what to display in it's place.
So, Some People Can't See Nothing — But Everyone Can See The â
By Elmer
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:01pm
Desktop yes,
By anon
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:06pm
Phone no - looks like a blue box. And, no, I, like 80% of the world's smartphone owners, don't have an iPhone and don't plan to get one.
because
By cybah
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:11pm
There's an equivalent on other OS's for that font.
the Ⓣ according to Microsoft Word is "MS Gothic" font. The more obscure font you have, the less likely others will be able to see it. MS Gothic is a Unicode font so it's pretty universal across platforms.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts_macosx.html
But things like icons that are fonts usually are less supported across platforms. (Webdings, Wingdings, etc are a few that come to mind)
So happy I asked. :) I had
By MattyC
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 1:54pm
So happy I asked. :) I had to do some unicode unit tests for a JVM in a prior job. What a pain. Each new version of unicode adds approximately 20 million new characters and I don't care about any of them. Latin alphabet FTMFW!
Do You See Nothing Now? — The Ⓣ Has Font Variations
By Elmer
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:13pm
I changed that original subject to another character. Do you see nothing now?
Actually, the Ⓣ can vary, depending on the font:
[img]https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2015/10...
it's blank
By cybah
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:35pm
It's blank now.
And yes it has variations depending on the font you used. The one you used above.... I pasted into Microsoft Word. Word said it was MS Gothic, which is what Microsoft Windows translates that to. Unless you tell me which font you are using, I can only go by what Unicode translates it to on a Windows machine. So for me, it's MS Gothic since I'm on Windows.
Some of it may have to do with how Adam's page is displayed too. I don't think drupal hard-sets the font for display. (i.e. he TELLS everything to be in a certain font). It's probably set to 'fixed width' because for me, everything on his page is in Arial (or Helvetica for you mac people), not MS Gothic. But Arial/Helvetica is a standard "web font", which is the defacto "fixed width" font for web pages.
Okay we're way off topic now.. ;)
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By Elmer
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:40pm
Opera
By blues_lead
Thu, 10/15/2015 - 1:16am
Opera on Windows, it's currently blank.
Probably a rental cart driven
By baustin
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:13pm
Probably a rental cart driven by some New York parent dropping their kid off at lumber school.
MBTA Says They're Up to the Challenge
By Michael
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:22pm
"Put a horse anywhere near our tracks and we'll find a way to make it delay service"
If somebody were to spit
By roadman
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:27pm
on the tracks, the T would use it as an excuse to delay service.
Slippery rail season...
By octr202
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:12pm
...is upon us!
Way too easy!
By HenryAlan
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 12:49pm
Waquiot win the prize on this, but definitely the most recognizable location I've seen so far in one of these pictures. The buildings haven't even changed!
Horses...
By Lecil
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:41pm
What would explain why it look 70 minutes to get from Sutherland to Park St on the Greenline late this morning... :/
MBTA's Winter Contingency Plan
By Mattatonic
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:47pm
Are we sure this isn't just an example of what the MBTA is planning if winter service is disrupted?
It's too bad...
By noahproblem
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 2:55pm
...we can't shoot Green Line trains when they become disabled...
The Answer
By Boston City Archives
Wed, 10/14/2015 - 4:13pm
Thanks for playing, folks! This does indeed show Charles Street between the Common and the Public Garden. It was taken in February of 1920.