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Providence Yesterday, redux
8:44AM ON
01/17/2008
BY
Dave Segal
We’ve posted about this before, but I thought a reminder was in order, given our explosive growth and all. There’s no better way to kill an afternoon than by perusing Providence Yesterday over at GCPVD. It’s the Downtown Providence 1970 plan, drafted in 1961, and is chock full of photos and kooky ideas.
How about this, from page 136:
The proposal for a downtown heliport is Downtown Providence’s link to the future. Railroad and highway travel have developed fully, whereas air travel is, relatively speaking, still in its infancy. Direct heliport access to the nerve center of the State is of obvious benefit, and should further strengthen the position of the downtown area.
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One Comment on “ Providence Yesterday, redux ”
January 17th, 2008 at 11:19AM
Jef Nickerson Says:
I’m posting 25 scans per page and am up to page 5 right now. There are about 300 scans to post. Some cool sketches will be posted on the upcoming pages. I have to resize all the scans for posting on the web, so it is a bit of work, and as I edit everything I find myself stopping to read and look at the photos and sketches, so it is taking forever to get everything posted. I’m setting myself a soft goal of having everything posted by the end of next month.
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