Boston Photographer
BACK BAY — Our former colleague George Rizer shared some of his amazing photos from the tragic fire on June 17, 1972, in the Hotel Vendome in the Back Bay that claimed the lives of nine Boston firefighters, the largest loss of life in the department’s history. A memorial on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall commemorates the valor of the fire crews and marks the nine men lost that day. What George remembered was how the…
NORTH END — Four of Boston’s best photographers played photographers in the 1978 film “The Brink’s Job” about the 1950 robbery in Boston of a Brink’s truck when thieves stole $3 million. The four photographers, from left are, Roland Oxton of Peabody, Archie Newman of Weymouth, Gene Dixon of Quincy, and John Landers Jr. of Milton. All four were on the staff of the Record-American or Herald at the time of the filming in Boston.…
BOSTON — Our friend and former colleague George Rizer pulled some images from his archives of the big spring events, all of which have been canceled or postponed for this year. All photos by George Rizer
This is a gallery of photographs that is being kicked off with some images sent to us by Bill Brett’s former Boston Globe colleague George Rizer. We’ve added a few more images that have come in from area photographers.
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