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DOUBLE TAKE

Look at that picture below!

The one with the Charles River. The MIT fleet.

Look across the river.

There is a building that wasn't there when we left ten years ago!

The one with the breast shaped top.

Keerist!

How things change.

When I first went to Boston the skyline had two distinct features; the Customs House (now a Marriott) in the dock area and the old John Hancock Building (with the weather light) in the Back Bay.

I was away from the City for ten years and when I came back we had the Prudential Building and all its baby buildings. That is the bigger building behind the fleet.

The dome topped building is an infill on Pru land which was vacant when we were there.

We lived behind the Pru about four blocks. I did my grocery shoppiing at the Star Market there.

Now look.

It is all ruined.

I suppose that people who live there now don't share that view. Progress.

We got out before the final closing in; the new construction and the 'big dig' highway construction. More shade patterns on the neighborhood.

So some things get better (like the water in the Charles) and some do not.

Labels: MIT, nostalgia