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My wife stumbled across something on the internet today, and asked me if I had ever heard of it. January 15, 1919, the devastating molasses flood of Boston Massachusetts. We have had a few "Old Photo" threads and discussions about it on this forum over the years. If someone had photos archived of it and would like to post them here, I think that would be good. I lost the links I had in a computer crash about a year ago.

Here's A link to few photographs taken by Leslie Jones who was a photographer for The Boston Herald. Its worth looking at some of his other photos on this site too. Truly shocking destruction.

My grandfather told me that for many years after the "flood" you could smell molasses in the North end on a humid day.
He didn't allow molasses in the house.

Opps Might have helped to paste that link I was talking about. Sorry bout that. http://www.lesliejonesphotography.com/c ... t=molasses