The 1970s was a turbulent decade in Boston’s history, fraught with conflicts over civil rights, the Vietnam war, and administrative issues. Protests against the Vietnam War were staged throughout the country – 50,000 people attended a protest in Boston in April 1970. In 1971, public protests led to the cancellation of the I-95’s route through downtown Boston. Demolition had already begun on the Southwest Corridor, which was used to reroute the Orange Line and Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor. Racial violence broke out in 1974 over court-ordered school busing. A storm in 1973 knocked down some of the glass panels on the John Hancock Building. A blizzard hit Boston in 1978.
Here are some stunning photos were taken by Meredith Jacobson Marciano that show Boston in the 1970s.
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A lot of great local (and a few non-local) bands scrawled on those walls.