Winner!

Game 1: You Spy

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our final picture for week 10 (and YouSpy Jp game #1) is here. This picture will remain posted until October 23rd. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 23rd (submit your guess at bottom of page):

YOU SPY

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our second picture for week 10 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 22nd at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 22nd (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

The grand finale: Our tenth and final week has started! 
Responses are due by midnight October 20th.

Our first picture for week 10 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 21st at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 21st (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

A WINNER

Our ninth week has come to a conclusion and the location was Bella Luna Restaurant & Milky Way Lounge, a truly fabulous Jamaica Plain institution. With a rich history of serving Jamaica Plain, its fare is delicious, atmosphere is fun, and entertainment some of the best in the area. Parking is a breeze. The popularity of the brewery complex is in large part because of Bella Luna. It's one of our favorite places to enjoy a night out.  

Game 1: Week 9 picture 3

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our third picture for week 9 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 16th. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 16th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

You Spy week 9 picture 2

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our second picture for week 9 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 15th at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 15th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

The ninth week has started! 
Responses are due by midnight October 13th.

Our first picture for week 9 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 14th at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 14th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Congrats Kathy Evans. 

Week 8 Picture 3

Our third picture for week 8 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 9th. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 9th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WEEK 8 picture 2

Our second picture for week 8 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 8th at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 8th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WEEK 8

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

The eighth week has started! 
Responses are due by midnight October 6th.

Our first picture for week 8 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 7th at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 7th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

Comics

Comics is a visual medium used to express ideas via images, often combined with text or visual information. Comics frequently takes the form of juxtaposed sequences ofpanels of images. Often textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and sound effects ("onomatopoeia") indicate dialogue, narration, or other information. Elements such as size and arrangement ...OH FORGET IT! Check out this comic strip:

Maxfield & Company is a series of cartoons that we ran in the Jamaica Plain Gazette in the late 1990's.  The subject is, you guessed it, a real estate agency and many of the local attractions in Jamaica Plain. It was written by a former Boston Pops bass player and comic writer,Justin Locke and written and illustrated by a former MassArt student, Christian O'Brien. 

We will maintain the history of these 'toons on our blog posts. 

 

THE HAVEN

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our seventh week has come to a conclusion and the location was The Haven, the only Scottish pub in Boston and the finest in all of New England. And it's right here in JP! Great food, great libation, great atmosphere. Stop in for the experience; you won't regret it. 

Congratulations to Robin Radin, winner for week 7 and the first contestant to win for a second week.  
Robin is a local photographer and, like many of you, has an eye for details and knows JP very well.

Stay tuned for next weeks pictures and guess the mystery location for more prizes.

The three pictures for this week (posted Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday), are here:

Week 7 of YOU SPY

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our third picture for week 7 is here. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 2nd (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WEEK 7 Picture 2

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our second picture for week 7 is here. This picture will remain posted until October 1st at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to October 1st (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WEEK 7 of You Spy

The seventh week has started! 
Responses are due by midnight September 30th.

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our first picture for week 7 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 30th at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 30th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

Winner announced: Courtney Garcia

Thank you all for participating in You Spy. This week's winner is: Courtney Garcia. Congrats.

And the location is: SALMAGUNDI

SALMAGUNDI is a Full Service Hat and Accessory Shop located in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.  It is stocked with over 12,000 hats, and offers the largest & most diverse selection of hats in New England. The entire collection is handpicked with our diverse customer base in mind. They work closely with independent Milliners to create hand blocked custom pieces, along with Hat Makers generations old who continue to provide the finest headwear in the world. Visit their brick and mortar store OR the website.

www.salmagundiboston.com

Thank you for participating in YOU SPY.

Week 6 Third pic

Our third picture for week 6 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 25th. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 25th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

WEEK SIX picture 2

Our second picture for week 6 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 23rd at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 23rd (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

GUESS AWAY!

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our first picture for week 6 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 22nd at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 22nd (submit your guess at bottom of this webpage):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

NOT TOO LATE!!!

Our third picture for week 5 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 18th. You'll receive 1 chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 18th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

PICTURE 2 is here for WEEK 5

Our second picture for week 5 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 17th at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 17th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

YOU SPY

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

The fifth week has started! And what a week it is!
Responses are due by midnight September 15th.

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our first picture for week 5 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 16th at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 16th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

YOU SPY! GUESS!!!!!

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our second picture for week 4 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 10th at which point a third picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 3 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 10th (submit your guess at bottom of page):

http://www.maxfieldre.com/YouSpy

Time to GUESS! You Spy

Game 1: You Spy (Jamaica Plain)

The fourth week has started! Responses are due by midnight September 8.

Play YOU SPY

...and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our first picture for week 4 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 9th at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You'll receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 9th (submit your guess at bottom of page at this link: www.maxfieldre.com/youspy)

WEEK THREE day three

The third week has started! Responses are due by midnight SEPTEMBER 4!

Play You Spy and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

Our third picture for week 3 is here. This picture will remain posted until September 4th. You'll receive ONE chance in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 4th. SUBMIT your guess here:

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

GAME ONE WEEK 3 You Spy

The third week has started! Responses are due by midnight SEPTEMBER 1!

Play You Spy and see just how well you know your neighborhood.

OUR first picture for week 3 is here. This picture will remain posted on the website until September 2nd at which point a second picture of the same location will be posted. You will receive 5 chances in the drawing if you guess the location of this photo prior to September 2nd. SUBMIT your guess here:

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

ANOTHER WEEK of YOU SPY!

We are pleased to ANNOUCE our first winner of our game YOU SPY! Susan Porter will go down in history as the first WINNER! Woot woot! Kudos and congrats for guessing, winning and well: MAKING HISTORY!

NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT:

It's week TWO! Let's start guessing people! Share with your friends! Good luck!

HERE IS THE PHOTO:

Guess away:

www.maxfieldre.com/youspy

YOU SPY! How well do u know the hood?

www.maxfieldre.com

YOU SPY!

HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW JAMAICA PLAIN?

WHEN John Maxfield recently restarted his former boutique real estate agency, Maxfield & Company Real Estate, his goal was to stay connected to his friends and clients in the Jamaica Plain community. 

Accordingly, the new Maxfield & Company website incorporates a game about the Jamaica Plain neighborhood. It’s a unique photo challenge; a sort of photo scavenger hunt. 

Beginning on August 18th: Each week, 3 photos of a mystery location in Jamaica Plain will be posted on the company’s site. Visitors to the site will then be challenged to guess where the photos were taken.  And each week, prizes will be awarded to a winner drawn from all those with correct guesses.

But not so quick. Though it sounds easy enough, the photos are obscure and the location not so easily guessed.  Therein lies the challenge.

Local businesses will be participating but we can’t tell you which ones.  Otherwise we’d ruin the game for you.  The pictures might be taken at a local business, a public location, or anything in between; but always in JP.

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After 10 weeks and 10 locations, a grand prize winner will be announced and given a dinner for 2 at JP’s Ten Tables restaurant. 

BACK to the Future:  Maxfield’s newly recreated company operates out of a ’50’s style office in the Centre Building at 685 Centre Street, where it all began back in 1994.  Maxfield started the company there and after quickly expanding, moved first downstairs to the Fire Opal location and then to Prudential’s current location in the bank building across from City Feed.  

When Maxfield sold Prudential and left there last year, he and three other local brokers created a unique structure for a real estate office: a cooperative.  Each of the four operate under their own brand but share office space and resources.

Everyone is invited to play the photo challenge game at www.MaxfieldRE.com. simply click on [You Spy] and begin lodging your best guesses.

EMAIL: jmax@maxfieldRE.com

Where To Go this Weekend #latehumpdaypost

This week, Beats electronics was sold to Apple. Dr. Dre used some of the cash to buy Tom and Gisele's Brentwood home. BUT what are we doing this weekend? 

GO: CULTURAL SURVIVAL BAZAAR A festival of Native arts and cultures. There will be free music performances, dancing, story telling, craft making demonstrations and goods for sale like art jewelry decor rugs and much more. Saturday June 7, COPLEY SQUARE 10-5

EAT: If you don't have tickets for the Bacon and Beer Fest, DO NOT FREAK OUT. The FOOD TRUCKS at SOWA this Sunday will give you plenty gastronomic pleasure. Loving Bon Me. Sundays 10-4

ESCAPE: If you want to get out of the city this beauty is available. LINK to SIESTA TRAILER 1959. (see pic on the left)

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