[Leica] Nathan Noshes at the "No Name" & Boston Redevelopment

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Nice photos, Dick.  That is one of the best portraits of Nathan that I have 
seen.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Taylor" <r.s.taylor at comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:50 PM
Subject: [Leica] Nathan Noshes at the "No Name" & Boston Redevelopment


> As Nathan mentioned in an earlier post, we met for the first time 
> yesterday evening for dinner and drinks and had a fine time.
>
> We ate at the "No Name" restaurant across the street from his hotel.  The 
> "No Name" was originally a diner for the fishermen working on Fish Pier 
> that, like the nearby Durgin Park restaurant, has, with redevelopment, 
> become a tourist destination.  When it opened in 1917 there was literally 
> no sign out front identifying it and over the years it developed a 
> reputation for serving the finest seafood in town.
>
> Here's Nathan showing off his new 7-14 zoom.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010225.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/3yvtjab
>
> ... and the upstairs dining room at the No Name.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010230.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/2d94s6a
>
> It was something of a shock to revisit this part of Boston for the first 
> time in a couple of decades.  If it hadn't been for the familiarity of the 
> harbor I could have been anywhere.   All the ramshackle old factories, 
> warehouses, small restaurants, run-down piers, and parking lots that 
> screamed "Boston Waterfront" have been replaced by the now commonplace 
> sterile glass, steel, and brick hotels and offices; parking towers; and 
> (mostly) chain restaurants.
>
> Historic Fish Pier is still there and appears still to be a working pier, 
> though a suspiciously clean one to my eye, and the grundgy commercial 
> fishing boats seem seriously out of place among the spanking clean 
> buildings and tour boats.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010241.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/27fk4cc
>
> All taken with the GF-1 and 7-14 f4.0 Lumix zoom.
>
> C&C always welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
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