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Historical Photo: Then and Now (Asks Who)

Who was this driver about to pick up? Whisky Wolinski knew. He was all over it — like Elihu Thomson at work on a new invention. The answer: Elihu Thomson

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Then and Now asks Whisky.

Whisky Wolinski  has been on a hot streak, answering correctly the fastest the past three weeks or so to Then and Now questions.

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He was first to figure out that the driver in Saturday's historical photograph was about to pick up Elihu Thomson, the great man of electricity and science who lived in Swampscott in what is now Town Hall.

We'll keep the  feature going by posting another photograph of a historic house or location on Saturday.

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The Then photograph was courtesy of the .


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