{"id":18562,"date":"2017-05-24T05:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T09:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=18562"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:52:58","slug":"mbta-gone-retro-looking-back-at-park-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/mbta-gone-retro-looking-back-at-park-street\/","title":{"rendered":"MBTA Gone Retro\u2014Looking Back at Park Street."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday\u2019s post featured contemporary views of MBTA\u2019s Park Street Station in Boston. See:\u00a0http:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Pk<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s post goes back in time.<\/p>\n

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I made this view\u00a0of an Arborway-bound PCC car about 1980. I\u2019d exposed the photo using my old Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar, probably on Tri-X processed in Microdol-X.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 scanned this from a print I made back in the day. During that period (1978-1982) I often traveled with my father to Boston and I made a lot of photos of MBTA transit operations. Unfortunately, I didn\u2019t keep precise notes on this print.<\/p>\n

Here’s one of the photos displayed yesterday for comparison.<\/p>\n

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Green Line streetcars use the upper level at Park Street.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday\u2019s post featured contemporary views of MBTA\u2019s Park Street Station in Boston. See:\u00a0http:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Pk Today’s post goes back in time. I made this view\u00a0of an Arborway-bound PCC car about 1980. I\u2019d exposed the photo using my old Leica 3A with 50mm Summitar, probably on Tri-X processed in Microdol-X. I\u00a0 scanned this from a print I made … Continue reading MBTA Gone Retro\u2014Looking Back at Park Street.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[3814,4203,4537,678,790,590,74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/MBTA-Park-Street-c1980\u00a9Brian_Solomon_53601035.jpg?fit=2131%2C1283","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-4Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18562\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}