Comments on: Hindenburg Over Framingham

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:55:58 +0000

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

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:09:17 +0000

My mother thinks it’s Lincoln St…

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:06:07 +0000

That house looks like the house across the street from Marian HS…

By: Nostalgio

Nostalgio — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:15:37 +0000

Thanks to all for sharing that nice picture!

By: JoEllen McNeil Jones

JoEllen McNeil Jones — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:56:43 +0000

What a great photo. That is a nice find!! Thanks for sharing.

By: Chris Swift

Chris Swift — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:22:04 +0000

Great picture. That nieghborhood looks the same if you think about the angle that was taken from.

By: Kevin Swope

Kevin Swope — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:23:49 +0000

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!

By: Rev. Bob Baril

Rev. Bob Baril — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:13:26 +0000

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”.