This is really cool, I didn’t even know there was a town in MA named Orange, does anyone know what the green tower is on the left side?

Well they got it right that basically no new buildings would go up.

Sorry I’m late, my hot air parachute broke down.

I assume it’s a church

It's a church. The town hall next to it was built in 1868. Orange is also right next to Athol if you know where that is.

That town is scary

How tf is Orange scary?

Why does everyone say that? There is nothing dangerous about orange. Its a charming, sleepy, but poor town. They have a great brewery, an untouched vintage downtown and some interesting buildings.

I really hope they create the passenger train line from Boston so these towns get a chance to thrive.

I told you to stop riding off the Eiffel Tower!

It like traveling to the rural Deep South, the town is covered is asbestos from the fire last April. Most the businesses are shut down. It’s not uncommon to see 30 year olds making out with 15 year olds, half the town hangs out at the Cumberland-farms store, yeah great place.

Or just before Erving if you know where that is…

I see no difference

Parts of the Hulu show Castle rock were filmed just outside the range of this photo actually.

Or just a bit west of Baldwinville if you know where that is

Tgis made me sad laugh. Nice to know nothing has changed since the last time I was there

They conservatively estimated one new building and they didn't even get that far.

Funny they couldn’t have imagined paved roads 😆

Or just a little north east from the quabbin if you know where that is.

If the people of that town where smart they'd vote out the corruption in the town hall. Town won't get any better if ll the money is going into there pockets. Also the chief seems like he's hiding something. Town needs help bad!!!

North Orange is really pretty.

Bring back the EL

Orange May not be dangerous but based on the density of unregulated air traffic in down town is estimate the risks are not exactly zero either

That postcard was part of a series. Here's a blog post with other "(Town), Mass. in the future" postcards featuring Baldwinville, Pittsfield, Greenfield, Stoneham, Revere, Grafton, South Lancaster, Townsend, Revere Beach, and Boston.

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I’d wager that is an old building since torn down

The number of autogyro-by shootings is appalling

The ring came off my pudding can!

somebody sat on the building with the turret, and now it is flat

I've only seen the black and white one of Reading, I would love to own a copy of it but haven't been able to figure out a search phrase to find it. Hopefully this will help!

Literally just told my wife this morning that a town with money's like a mule with a spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it, and dammed if he knows how to use it!

Both of you guys are blowing my mind right now.

So you're telling me I can fly for about $25K-$50K?

And unregulated? Can you expand on that?

Screw the train, why isn't everyone just flying to Orange?

Cool but also, disappointing, I want to see airships

We screwed up somewhere along the way.

And the one in the middle burned down.

Why pave roads when you have DIRIGIBLES?

They didn’t say how far into the future. Hope springs eternal

Cars won

I am shocked to find out that the sky monorail didn't extend all of the way out to Orange.

Well, they got awnings. So there's that.

In the future you can use either fly or take a car with wooden rims.

Yes, it’s called unfettered capitalism, where society’s profit and progress is funneled exclusively to the top 0.1-1% of wealth hoarders

I'm still wondering how it just floats there without any supports.

25-50k bro look at the picture, just throw a sheet over a rubber maid bin and off you go

Or just south of Royalston if you know where that is

I'm still waiting for the elevated monorail to be built

Or for the highfalutin type, attach one of those Sharper Image blimps to your bicycle.

Even better. Actually went backwards.

I feel slighted that I never got a Dirigible...(sigh)

Anti gravity. We're full of it here in the future.

They really had a thing for trains hanging from the tracks 100 feet in the air.

A sky monorail in Orange was seriously ambitious thinking, especially considering the trains in Boston are exploding in current time.

Is no one concerned that whoever drew this future picture considered no safety for the people in the trolley car or duck boat looking thing in the bottom, right? Damn things taking a hard turn and tipping to the side with people out of their chairs.

Not to mention the UFOs

Worse than Athol

Heh heh... mule.

Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?

well that is a nice awning...

Too bad, looked nice.

Uh, I'd better look in the manual...

This book must be out of date: I don't see "Prussia", "Siam", or "autogyro".

They’re right that the MBTA is upside down…

I like when they have that and street cars. Seems a bit redundant.

Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!

This was at the tail end of the Gilded age, when “accidents” like that were just accepted as a fact of life.

Lmfaooo being a Graftonian that’s gotta be the funniest shit I’ve seen. It’s literally an ancient photoshop 💀💀

Wtf is going on to the left of the sky trolley? The weird flying fish like thing with a guy hanging from it?

Everything else makes at least some semblance of sense, but that one just has me scratching my head.

MBTA can't even keep the subways from breaking down/catching fire. You want to be on a superway that they run?

Have you ever lived in Boston, just curious?. I'm in New Hampshire native but lived in Boston for a decade in the south end and hands down would still live there if the situation for me were right. It was eminently walkable iand the transportation to all parts of greater Boston was easy. New Hampshire completely sucks especially the economic powerhouse of the state, Manchester, a complete disgrace

With no supports. How does that even work? We have yet to figure out how to revoke gravity.

> economic powerhouse of the state, Manchester

questionable wording, but sure

It must be right there next to Persia and the Ottoman Empire.

Subway to New York from X is something considering there isn't a direct passenger rail line from North Station to South Station in Boston.

lol I grew up in there. Things have changed even since 2019 (assuming the watermark thing is legit on the Orange pic).

Not sure if that place on the right survived. The brick building on the left does have some businesses in it now.

No, I live in Attleboro, work in Cambridge. Commuted by train/redline for a year, then car for a year, now WFH with occasional drive-in.

I’d thought about living in Greater Boston/Providence but don’t think I’d acclimate well to carless life (esp with two small kids), and I really dislike driving in the city.

Not questionable at all if you know the numbers. It's a shithole, but also the banking center and the real estate center as well as the greatest population center

nah it definitely is

These are great. I live in Western MA and have travelled all of the New England states for work. Extensively.

Appreciate you sharing, OP. Made me smile

Edit: Didn’t realize I clicked on a Reddit suggested sub for MA. So I guess you all could give two shits less that I live in MA 😅

I'm going to guess because a suspended railway was just being built in Germany at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn

That's because in the late 1800s the Swiss built one

Welp. They tried.

I was concerned about the right hand corner, too. Is that a cart full of people tipping over? It feels a little chaotic to me. Unless I just looked at it wrong?

They really thought that there’d be floating rail and blimp bikes but the cars wouldn’t improve at all?

Also I just realized where Orange is, if this is what they thought the middle of nowhere would be like, Boston must look crazy

Lol

Really gives some perspective. Whatever we think the future will be like, we’re probably drastically wrong. We don’t know any better than the folks in 1910, it’s naive to think we do

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