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Arlington Motor Tour
Nov. 6th, 2012 10:50 pmOkay, the Arlington Motor Tour is fully posted at the 1937 book Tumblr. Clicking on the link should take you to all the posts tagged "Arlington," which should give you the whole tour if you keep scrolling. Enjoy!
Important 1937 Book Announcement!
Sep. 24th, 2012 10:54 pmLet's be honest: LJ was never the ideal platform for a bunch of photo-heavy posts. Had Tumblr been around when I started the 1937 book posts, they would always have been a Tumblr thing. Well, now that Tumblr is around, and now that LJ has told me I've run out of photo storage and need to start deleting photos, I've decided to officially make the move. Therefore, here is the announcement:
The 1937 book is moving to Tumblr! If you want to make sure you don't miss a single moment of the action, follow along there!
All new entries (and I have a bunch of tours done that need to get written up, including some New Orleans tours!) will only be posted to the Tumblr account. Eventually I plan to move all the old entries over there, too.
Thanks for coming along with me on so many of these jaunts!
The 1937 book is moving to Tumblr! If you want to make sure you don't miss a single moment of the action, follow along there!
All new entries (and I have a bunch of tours done that need to get written up, including some New Orleans tours!) will only be posted to the Tumblr account. Eventually I plan to move all the old entries over there, too.
Thanks for coming along with me on so many of these jaunts!
Cambridge--1937 Book Introduction
Mar. 21st, 2012 11:00 pmAges and ages and ages and ages ago, the very first motor tour I ever did was the Cambridge motor tour. Sadly for all of us, in between then and now some strange thing happened with my LJ and photos got lost. I mean, *I* still have all the photos, and if I ever move these musings over to a proper blog, I’ll fix these entries, but, in the meantime, you can read the text from the Cambridge motor tour, but you can’t actually see any of the photographs. Sad.
Anyway, I started the Cambridge motor tour without ever telling any of you Facts About Cambridge! And I know you’re waiting eagerly for them! So here they are!
( There's Going to Be a Quiz Later )
Anyway, I started the Cambridge motor tour without ever telling any of you Facts About Cambridge! And I know you’re waiting eagerly for them! So here they are!
( There's Going to Be a Quiz Later )
Salem Motor Tour--Part One
Nov. 18th, 2011 09:24 pmOMG. DON’T FAINT, BUT…HERE IS A 1937 BOOK POST. I KNOW!
Yes, yes, it’s been almost a year since I did a 1937 post. It was a busy year for me, okay? But I’m trying to catch up now, and I’m going in chronological order, which means I’m starting with the Salem Motor Tour, which happened basically a year ago, when Kristin-who-won’t-get-an-LJ visited![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arctacuda and me.
I did the Salem Foot Tour basically a year before that, and, if you’re interested, it is recounted here and here. If you don’t feel like going back to read all about my earlier adventures in Salem, all you really need to know is this: The author of the 1937 book has a huge crush on Nathaniel Hawthorne and no interest in the witch trials.
On to the motor tour!
( Text! Photos! )
Yes, yes, it’s been almost a year since I did a 1937 post. It was a busy year for me, okay? But I’m trying to catch up now, and I’m going in chronological order, which means I’m starting with the Salem Motor Tour, which happened basically a year ago, when Kristin-who-won’t-get-an-LJ visited
arctacuda and me.I did the Salem Foot Tour basically a year before that, and, if you’re interested, it is recounted here and here. If you don’t feel like going back to read all about my earlier adventures in Salem, all you really need to know is this: The author of the 1937 book has a huge crush on Nathaniel Hawthorne and no interest in the witch trials.
On to the motor tour!
( Text! Photos! )
Somerville Motor Tour
Feb. 3rd, 2011 10:21 pmIt has become a thing now, these motor tours of mine. And so it came to pass that when arctacuda’s parents were visiting (months and months and months ago, because I fail at being timely), her father joined us on a motor tour of arctacuda’s current home, Somerville.
( The Somerville Tour )
( The Somerville Tour )
Boston Foot Tour No. 5: Fenway--Part Two
Jan. 29th, 2011 12:06 am(I did this tour SO long ago. I can't get over how green everything is!)
( FINALLY, the second part of the Fenway Walking Tour )
( FINALLY, the second part of the Fenway Walking Tour )
Boston Foot Tour No. 5: Fenway--Part One
Jun. 22nd, 2010 09:44 pmThis is the last of the Boston foot tours, and encompasses my area of the city (or at least it will be my area of the city for a little while longer). I want everyone to know that, for this tour, I actually took a bus, which I almost never do, because I find them confusing and unnecessarily stressful as a result. However, I sacrificed for the sake of the 1937 book and all of you.
( The Fenway District )
Brookline Motor Tour--Part 1
Jun. 17th, 2010 08:32 pmArctacuda and I happened to have the same day off at one point. It was raining. (It is always raining here. People will tell you that’s not quite true, they are wrong.) So we decided to do a motor tour. Because it was bad outside, we decided to do a nearby motor tour, and chose Brookline. Full disclosure: I live one block from Brookline—in fact, I go to church in Brookline—and I kind of adore Brookline. You know why? Because I am the kind of person who loves opulent comfort.
Quincy Motor Tour--Introduction
Apr. 12th, 2010 11:16 pmOops! I totally forgot that I drafted an introduction to that tour. Because I wrote it, you know, months ago. Anyway, everything you always wanted to know about Quincy, Massachusetts:
( Quincy Facts )
Quincy Motor Tour, Part 1
Apr. 12th, 2010 10:33 pm
Prologue:
Several years earlier, arctacuda and I journey to Quincy in search of a specific store.
Me (driving through downtown): I don’t like it here.
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The Present Day. Arctacuda and I doing the Quincy Motor Tour.
Me (driving through downtown): I don’t like it here.
Arctacuda: That’s what you said last time we were here.
Me: We’ve been here before?
Arctacuda: Yes.
Me: Huh. Well, at least I’m consistent!
( Part One of the Adventure )
Foor Tour 4: Downtown
Mar. 7th, 2010 11:05 pmStraight off the bat on this tour, I got totally and utterly lost. I was trying to find the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Federal Street. It told me to start at South Station to find this, so that’s where I went, but in between 1937 and 2010 (actually, I did this tour in 2009, I’m just WAY behind writing these tours up), Boston put a highway right through this piece of the city and then removed the highway right through this piece of the city, meaning it’s undergone not one, but two major transformations since the book was written. For that reason, as you can see on the map below, Atlantic Avenue and Federal Street no longer intersect.
( Text and Photos! )
( Text and Photos! )
