Collection · 19 stops · 5 packs

After Dark

Stops where the answer and the story both still work at 9 p.m.

1. The 1852 Hunt
   Before it took a single real alarm, Boston's fire telegraph rang the city's bells from New York.
   Tremont Street at the head of School Street, across from King's Chapel
2. The 1852 Hunt
   Boston's first keyless alarm box went in on this corner in 1881.
   Corner of Tremont Street and Winter Street, across from the Common
3. The 1852 Hunt
   The first boxes had a crank, and people turned it according to how excited they were.
   
4. The 1852 Hunt
   The officer who opened Box 52 for the Great Fire had his own key. The alarm was still a quarter hour late.
   Corner of Summer Street and Lincoln Street
5. The 1852 Hunt
   Every address in Boston is filed under a fire alarm box, a bit like a zip code.
   Milk Street at Federal Street
6. The 1852 Hunt
   The City's public map of its fire alarm boxes has a dot in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
   Corner of Milk Street and Oliver Street, east side of Post Office Square
7. The 1852 Hunt
   Twice in six years, 911 went down, and the street boxes were the backup.
   Corner of Atlantic Avenue and Congress Street, by the Greenway
8. Under Boston
   The Sky Over Causeway Street Used to Be Steel
   
9. Under Boston
   A Station in the Cellar
   
10. Under Boston
    The Centennial Car
    Boylston station, Tremont St at Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
11. Bad Ends
    A dentist identified Parkman from a set of false teeth he'd made in 1846.
    2 North Grove Street (outside, on the street)
12. Bad Ends
    The Common's maintenance fund came from the murdered man's son.
    33 Beacon Street, at Joy Street
13. Bad Ends
    In 1895 the subway dig moved about 910 people. The expense line reads 'Care of human remains,' $202.00.
    Tremont Street at Boylston Street, southeast corner of the Common
14. Banned in Boston
    In 1929 Boston banned a Pulitzer Prize play from a theatre on Hollis Street. The play survived. The street didn't.
    
15. Banned in Boston
    Groucho Marx, playing here in October 1929, gave Boston's censorship a one-line review: 'Boston's a pain in the neck.'
    265 Tremont Street, north of Seaver Place
16. Banned in Boston
    In April 1970 the justices of the state's highest court each went to see Hair, then ruled the cast must be 'clothed to a reasonable extent.'
    246 Tremont Street
17. Banned in Boston
    Jacques has been a gay bar in Bay Village since the 1940s, through the raids, and Boston's first Pride march started at its door in 1971.
    
18. Shot Here
    The ducklings have a bronze twin in Moscow, sent in 1991 as a gift to Soviet children.
    Public Garden, just inside the gate at Charles and Beacon Streets
19. Shot Here
    Colin Sullivan's penthouse in The Departed is a law library.