Hindenburg Over Framingham
April 19th, 2010I was away for a week so I hope to get some more frequent posting on here this week.   I thought this was neat find. My friend found this photo in her dad’s collection dated 1936 of the Hindenburg flying over Framingham, near the school that is now the Danforth Museum.
 
Wow, Michelle,
I’m a big history buff, and that photo is very cool!
I wonder if it was from 1937 rather than ‘36? (’37 was the year of its conflagration as it touched down in New Jersey.)
My late mother used to say that the Hindenburg at least once flew over the city of Boston. She lived in a Roxbury neighborhood at the time and everybody went outside to see it fly overhead…swastika and all.
Incidentally, I THINK at the time the Danforth was “Framingham High School”.
Comment by Rev. Bob Baril — April 19, 2010 @ 3:13 pm
Definitely 1936–the film was developed in October of that year. There’s a website with flight logs–the Hindenburg made a lot of transatlantic flights that year, and the maps indicate it went over Massachusetts on the westbound flights, but went south of New England eastbound.
Last sighting of a zeppelin in Framingham until Aug. 21, 1969, when Led Zeppelin played the Carousel Theatre!
Comment by Kevin Swope — April 20, 2010 @ 9:23 pm
Great picture. That nieghborhood looks the same if you think about the angle that was taken from.
Comment by Chris Swift — April 21, 2010 @ 9:22 am
What a great photo. That is a nice find!! Thanks for sharing.
Comment by JoEllen McNeil Jones — April 21, 2010 @ 7:56 pm
Thanks to all for sharing that nice picture!
Comment by Nostalgio — April 26, 2010 @ 7:15 am
That house looks like the house across the street from Marian HS…
Comment by Emily — November 19, 2010 @ 5:06 pm
My mother thinks it’s Lincoln St…
Comment by Emily — November 19, 2010 @ 5:09 pm
Michelle,
I will echo Bob Baril’s comment “Wow Michelle, this is cool.” Thank you for posting it!
Looks the photo was taken at the corner of Lexington and Union, looking generally to the west. If you go to Google maps (or walk there if you’re in Framingham), you’ll see that the building on the right has a Verizon office (at the time the google car went by, anyway.) From the photographer’s view in Michelle’s photo, the high school would be behind the photographer. My parents are from Framingham and told me that they remember (like Bob Baril’s mother) seeing the Hindenburg fly over. Today is Thanksgiving and I plan to show this photo to my parents when we go to their house for a visit. The dark-colored houseis still there, easily recognizable with the peaks and chimneys.
Thanks again.
Steve
Comment by Steve — November 24, 2011 @ 12:55 pm