Show oyster shells provide back bay sound footing boston mass evidence of oysters popularity here in the was revealed by discovery of ct a three foot seam of shells in the back bay from the public gardens to cornmon commonwealth mon wealth avenue and berkeley street two blocks away shells were fourd found by workmen digging ditches tor for irrigation pipes city records of 1857 showed that at that time the back bay smelled like a dump which indeed it is and declared that oyster shells were to blame when laborers began to 9 fill 11 in the tidal mud flat fiat known as the back bay that year they apparently spread a foot of soil over the shells shell and considered their job well done don |