Cantilever Wall ...

[Rob Amaral]

I saw 1 section of reinforced concrete cantilevered wall in front of a modern office building in Cambridge, MA yesterday.. At first, I thought it was something from an old MA highway project (we save junk like this around here...the Big Dig has driven us crazy..)...but then I realized that it was probably 'from elsewhere'. The faces were protected with plexiglass... It looked familiar..

I realized what it probably was, blessed myself and moved on.. It must be from ________ Do you think so too? If so, it's a long way from its original home...

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[Neal Lewis]

I don't have a clue, Rob, but take a look at its shadow on the ground.

[Ben H]

No plaque? No marker? Nothing?

[esch]

9/11?

A memorial?

[gtblum]

I don't have a clue, Rob, but take a look at its shadow on the ground.

Funny.

[hausdok]

What do you mean the faces were protected with plexiglas? Is there something on the face of that thing - pictures of people or something like that - that can't be seen in this photo?

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Rocon]

Looks like an art detail in the landscaping. Aesthetically speaking it gives a sense of discovery to the path which moves away from the philosophy of commonality and standardization.

Oh god the shadow is shaped like a ....

[gtblum]

Looks like an art detail in the landscaping. Aesthetically speaking it gives a sense of discovery to the path which moves away from the philosophy of commonality and standardization.

Oh god the shadow is shaped like a ....

Is it a chunk of the Berlin wall?

[hausdok]

Hi,

It's a section of the Berlin Wall. It looked oddly familiar to me but the rounded detail at the top threw me until I realized that had probably been put on there by whoever owns it now in order to keep people from climbing it. According to Wickipedia, a segment of the wall is located outside the main entrance to the North American headquarters of EF Education, a travel, international language education and cultural exchange company, which is located at One Education Street off of McGrath O’Brien Highway (across from the Science Museum).

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Is that where this is, Rob?

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Erby]

If it's a piece of the Berlin Wall, it sure looks a lot diferent tha it did when I was inside it back in the late 70's.

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[Jim Baird]

Looks like a piece of those partitions they put up in Israeli occupied Palestine.

Urban counterpart to cut-in-half tractor tires used as yard art.

[Rob Amaral]

Mike, that is exactly where it is.. near the Boston Museum of Science...but in Cambridge.. near where the Charles River begins to enter Boston Harbor..

I tried to post another photo but the process got botched folks.. There was some graffiti on it.. Mike's photo shows that graffiti...

I wonder what the cost was to ship that thing over.. ?

[Jim Morrison]

I go by that nearly every day, but never stopped to look at it. It's about 3/4 mile from my house.

Jimmy

[Rob Amaral]

That area is the site of the former "State Prison" Jim... (Which is now 'out here' in Wall-po-will) Sacco and Vanzetti got zapped near that group of buildings.. .....

Jimmy and I just spent 2 days 'in seminar' in Salem, MA... Heck of an old Customs House building there...

[Rob Amaral]

Check out the view from the condo I inspected near the Berlin Wall.. The best views of Boston are from Cambridge..

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[Jim Katen]

Check out the view from the condo I inspected near the Berlin Wall.. The best views of Boston are from Cambridge..

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Yeah, you can't see the traffic from there.

[kurt]

It's not traffic, it's lots of people working together to get from where they are to where they're going.

Put two country folks at a stop sign intersection in the middle of nowhere, you get folks hyperventilating because someone's in their way.

Put a million city folks in a jam packed environment, and they (for the most part) figure it out and work together because they recognize everyone's gotta be someplace.

[Jim Katen]

Check out the view from the condo I inspected near the Berlin Wall.. The best views of Boston are from Cambridge..

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Yeah, you can't see the (euphemism for traffic) from there.

[Steven Hockstein]

I go by that nearly every day, but never stopped to look at it. It's about 3/4 mile from my house.

Jimmy

Wish I would have known you were so close. Spent two nights in the Cambridge Hampton Inn last weekend because we were doing some college tours for my older son. I would have invited you out for a beer!

[randynavarro]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

[Steven Hockstein]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

It is easier to see it if you are Jewish.

[Rocon]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

It kind of looks like the building on the right (as viewed from my office).

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[Jim Katen]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

They are, I believe, referrring to its priapic form.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

[Bain]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

They are, I believe, referrring to its priapic form.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

I don't get it. What does a shadow that looks like a peter (No, I'm not as erudite as you) have to do with being Jewish?

[Jim Katen]

I'm blind. I don't get/see the shadow thing??

They are, I believe, referrring to its priapic form.

- Jim Katen, Oregon

I don't get it. What does a shadow that looks like a peter (No, I'm not as erudite as you) have to do with being Jewish?

Perhaps it's a reference to the Jewish practice of circumcision and the attendant change in profile of the member under consideration.