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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS AND LINKS

(It is interesting that this was established in 1951 according to Wiki. That would coincide with the building of the Central Artery (that was ripped down in the Big Dig) or the potentially new influx of tourists to the Boston area as a result of this highway at the time. Very curious….)

Boston Ways, Weston

https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Ways-George-F-Weston/dp/0807051810

Boston – Its Byways and Highways, Being Twenty Five

https://archive.org/details/bostonitsbywaysh00seafiala

Americans on the Road: From Auto Camp to Motel

https://www.amazon.com/Americans-Road-Autocamp-Motel-1910-1945/dp/0801857341

A History of Travel in America, Dunbar

https://archive.org/details/historyoftraveliv1dunb

Boston, A Topographical History

https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Topographical-History-Third-Enlarged/dp/0674002679

Boston, A Short History

https://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Boston-Histories/dp/1889833479/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YWCT14GQXRHTMXPCXFH8&dpID=41TGOW0rD0L&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=detail

(The author of this book seems like a good person to get to know. Professor of History at Suffolk Univ which is right down next to the State house in the thick of history. I believe he may also be involved in this company http://www.bostonbyfoot.org/

Eden on the Charles

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416833

Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston

https://www.amazon.com/Gaining-Ground-History-Landmaking-Boston/dp/0262194945/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YWCT14GQXRHTMXPCXFH8

Boston’s Back Bay

https://www.amazon.com/Bostons-Back-Bay-Americas-Nineteenth-Century/dp/1555536514/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=YWCT14GQXRHTMXPCXFH8

Mapping Boston

https://www.amazon.com/Mapping-Boston-Press-Alex-Krieger/dp/0262112442/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2N6G4GFZ4CH7V4HKZFQJ&dpID=51XPM47609L&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=detail

A Book For Boston

From an ebay listing ($399 although it is available for much cheaper)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-Book-For-Boston-Signed-Limited-/172927424106?hash=item284347166a:g:NJUAAOSwsWpZ4mY-

A Book For Boston, In Which Are Gathered Essays, Stories, and Poems
Published by Godine, Boston, 1980,
Llewellyn Howland, Editor
Hardcover with DJ, Limited Edition
Very Scarce Signed!!
One of 50 copies presented by the City of Boston to Channel 2
Signed by all the contributors on a tipped on sheet on the front endpaper.
Condition VG/VG the DJ is protected in mylar.
Signed by Anne Bernays, James Carroll, Julia Child, John Kenneth Galbraith, Joseph E. Garland, Nancy Hale, Justin Kaplan, Jane Holtz Kay, Alan Lupo, David McCord, Archibald MacLeish, James Alan McPherson, Robert B. Parker, Caryl Rivers, Elizabeth Savage, John D. Spooner, Isabelle Storey, David Godine and the Editor Llewellyn Howland.
Neatly applied scotch tape covers some of the signatures, including Julia Child
Parker signs in full, not initials as is usually seen.
B&W photos and plates throughout.
Published as part of Boston's 350th Anniversary of incorporation.

Antique Views of Boston

https://archive.org/details/antiqueviewsofye00star

Sketches of Boston, past and present, and of some few places in its vicinity

https://archive.org/details/sketchesofboston01homa

https://archive.org/details/sketchesofboston02homa

Stranger's Illustrated Guide to Boston and Its Suburbs ...: With Maps of Boston and the Harbor

https://archive.org/details/strangersillust00stargoog

https://archive.org/details/strangersillustr01bost

(tons of antique advertisements here in the back!)

Boston illustrated; containing full descriptions of the city and its immediate suburbs…

Then and Now, Antique Boston guide book

https://archive.org/details/bostonillustrate00stan

Culture Heritage and Tourism, Dallen J. Timothy

https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Heritage-Tourism-Introduction-ASPECTS/dp/1845411765

The Silent Traveller in Boston, Chiang Yee

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Traveller-Boston-Chiang-Yee/dp/0393084744

National Geographic, Vol 122, No. 2, Aug 1962, Articles: “The Old Boston Post Roads” “Along the Post Roads Today” (good articles coincide with the completion of 128/95 and the Mass Pike)

https://www.ebay.com/i/152721175490?chn=ps&dispItem=1

Turnpikes of New England, Frederick J. Wood

https://archive.org/details/turnpikesofnewen00woodrich

(Also available as a new edition reprint on Amazon)

Boston Central Artery (History Press)

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9780738505268

https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/12/29/years-later-did-big-dig-deliver/tSb8PIMS4QJUETsMpA7SpI/story.html

Yanni Tsipis | LinkedIn

Building the Mass Pike (History Press)

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9780738509723

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Massachusetts_Turnpike

Yanni Tsipis | LinkedIn

Building 128 (History Press)

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9780738511634

David Kruh | LinkedIn

Big Roads, Earl Swift

https://www.amazon.com/Big-Roads-Visionaries-Trailblazers-Superhighways/dp/0547907249

Boston, Then and Now

https://www.amazon.com/Boston-Then-Now/dp/1571451773

Lost Boston

https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Boston-Anthony-Sammarco/dp/1909815047

A good source of info that could be mined for a long time would be the archives of the Boston Globe. Lots of stuff in there. Also Wikipedia has a lot of stuff that can be mined for its info and bibliographies. As well, the authors of a lot of these books above seem to be Boston historians who are worth compiling a list of names on and maybe contacting if appropriate.