Hole in the Clouds


On Her Own

Jan 4, 2018

The woman in black is standing at the Summit Avenue streetcar stop, looking back across Brighton Street in Boston in 1938.

The streetcar platform was taken down in 2004, but all the buildings in this scene, and even the billboard around the bend, are still there today. 

What was she doing there? What was she thinking? Did she know somebody was taking her picture?

Boston   streetscape   1938   (photographer unknown, via Shorpy)