Boston Photographer
BOSTON — 375 guests attended the opening night of the 29th annual Boston Wine festival, which was started by Chef Daniel Bruce of the Boston Harbor Hotel. Bruce and his team at the hotel will host 39 wine dinners with some of the top wineries and winemakers in the world from now until the end of March. For more information and tickets, check out the Boston Wine Festival website. “It is amazing to me that…
ROXBURY– This photo was taken in 1965 at a fire on Harrison Avenue. The 21-year-old woman survived with the help of Boston Police Patrolman James Donovan. The Globe ran a version of the photo with underpants painted on. That was considered an OK thing to do in those days. (We’ve included the Globe clip below as well.) The Herald ran the photo with polka dot underpants painted on. The attached clip shows another version. PHOTO…
DORCHESTER — A Go Fund Me fundraising page has been set up to help the extended family of 14 and their two dogs that were displaced in a multiple alarm fire on Allston Street in Dorchester on Saturday. You can help them via this link. According to Caught in Dot, the all of the residents go out of the building, but they lost all of their belongings. The cleanup of the street was ongoing as…
BOSTON — Before Bill Brett headed to Dorchester on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, to see the cleanup of a multiple-alarm fire that drove several families from their homes, he stopped by the office and pulled these images from his archives. As best as he could remember for us, all three of these photos were taken in the late 1970s or early 1980s. They all show the added trials that firefighters face in the extremely cold…
BACK BAY — Thursday’s snowstorm and the stretch of extremely cold temperatures have meant that a number of social events have been postponed, but that didn’t stop Bill Brett from filing some shots. Bill hit the streets on Saturday in the Back Bay, particularly Newbury and Boylston streets near Copley Square and the Prudential Center. Overnight, Boston is projected to have the lowest temperatures for this date in the more than 140 years of record-keeping.…
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