Each week, Greater Boston is partnering with the Boston Globe – showing photos “From the Archives” – where more than a million staff photographs have been digitized and are being shared with the Globe’s readers.
This week, we take a look back at life along the Charles River.
The completion of the Charles River Dam Bridge on June 30, 1910, created the Charles River Basin and gave Boston the water park that is now integral to our urban experience. What had been a tidal estuary at the end of the 80-mile river now shelters rowing and yacht clubs, one of the world’s largest public sailing programs, and the barge from which Boston’s iconic Fourth of July fireworks are launched.
Every day was race day for the model yachts in the lagoon of the Charles River. In this photo, taken on Oct. 6, 1935, that day was no different. The Boston Model Yacht Club, founded in the 1920s, began using the Storrow lagoon in the mid-1930s and it was known as one of the most prestigious model yacht lagoons in the United States. Club racing generally opened in mid-April and lasted until November.
