Car-Talk Towers. Leitz Elmar 135mm

I have been mulling the possibilities of this stenciled window high above Harvard Square for some time.  D, C & H is a fictitious law firm, but was also used as the corporate name of the Magliozzi brothers' award-winning talk show about car repair hosted on Public Radio.  It's not clear whether the show did in fact have offices at these premises (“Car Talk Towers") or whether it is just a part of their on-going gag, but the figures in the window are Tom and Ray Magliozzi.  Both MIT-educated, they set up business as motor mechanics at The Goodwill Garage in Cambridge.  In 1977 they were asked  to host a call-in show on National Public Radio.  It went viral, sporting their particular brand of slapstick humor coupled with sage advice about cars and their owners.  The older brother died last year but the show continues in re-runs aired on NPR and its affiliates around the country.
 
My personal favorite call was the guy who had supposedly just bought a used hearse from a funeral home.  Driving down the street he heard a noise in the back, stopped at the curb, opened the back door and climbed into the space reserved for the horizontal.  You guessed it: the wind blew the door shut and there he was discovering that hearses aren’t equipped with latches on the back door which open from the inside…  Eventually, after much banging on the frosted glass, somebody let him out.  His question to the brothers was if it were possible to install a lock that opened from the inside also…   Here's a link to the Wiki article on "Car Talk".