Leonard Nimoy, who grew up in the West End, died today.

Last year, he talked about life in the West End - and its destruction by wrecking balls - in an interview with the Yiddish Book Center.

Boston city records show that in 1948, when he was 17, Nimoy set up a child-photography business:

Image via the Boston City Archives, which still has the original record book.

Chris Devers linked us to a copy of the short film Nimoy narrated for the Museum of Science's Mugar Omni Theater: