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Chinese people gathering around John Harvard is a daily occurrence. I don't know why. But that's what every visitor here knows to do.
Before I moved to Boston, I had zero idea of what was there to be honest.
Yeah I'm sure all the Chinese Tiger parents trying to get their kids into Harvard do but beyond that, very doubtful. I've never even heard of it before.
You can be recognizable in other ways, right? It doesn't need to be from a picture. That was really what started the Harvard conversation.
By the way, who the hell knows what Alcatraz looks like from the outside? I've been there, and I have no idea.
Name recognition Harvard certainly has, but visual not really imo or any other university for that matter. No other famous prisons on a small island I'm aware of so even if you don't know exactly what it looks like it won't be that hard to guess if you saw it.
Name recognition Harvard certainly has, but visual not really imo or any other university for that matter. No other famous prisons on a small island I'm aware of so even if you don't know exactly what it looks like it won't be that hard to guess if you saw it.
Google Castle Island and Alcatraz. I'd bet someone from broader Asia has zero idea which is which.
By the way, who the hell knows what Alcatraz looks like from the outside? I've been there, and I have no idea.
Really? Not trying to be snarky, but I feel like the image of the prison (with the water tower and powerhouse smokestack being two of the signature architectural features) on the rocky island is pretty widely known and is popular in pop culture (tons of shows and movies) as well.
Really? Not trying to be snarky, but I feel like the image of the prison (with the water tower and powerhouse smokestack being two of the signature architectural features) on the rocky island is pretty widely known and is popular in pop culture (tons of shows and movies) as well.
I mean, you'd have to actually consume to pop culture to know.
san fran is more visually recognizable than boston.
trans america building
golden gate bridge
that curvy street
those houses on full house opening theme
cable cars
...
pru
zakim/bunker hill
citgo sign
fenway
state house
...
i know what alcatraz is but i dont remember what it looks like.
all college campuses are generic.
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I’d say Faneuil Hall as part of freedom trail is Boston’s largest tourist destination..nationally and internationally...it gets 17 mill per year which is similar to Golden Gate Bridge..prob not as recognizable but certainly more of an attraction of history buffs
There's no debating that Boston has a ton of history and the Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall, the Old State House, Fenway, the U.S.S. Constitution, etc. are all major landmarks and recognizable to many. But if you were to take a random sampling of people from all over the world and show a handful of pictures of the landmarks in either city, San Francisco would easily be more recognizable to the majority.
Which is too bad, really. It’d be nice if Boston had a more immediately recognizable landmark.
Though I would add the Swan Boats and the “Make Way for Ducklings” statues to our list of potentially recognizable things. They wind up on a lot of our post cards, but I don’t know how well known they are.
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I have no idea what alcatraz looks like. Maybe I'm ignorant.
Me neither to be perfectly honest. I’ve always thought of Alcatraz as a good thing to do in San Francisco, but not necessarily a reason to visit San Francisco.
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Prisons aren't known for their artistic/architectural/cultural value.
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