When Jim Botticelli launched the Dirty Old Boston Facebook page as a salute to the gritty City he once knew, he discovered that thousands of people were equally nostalgic and curious about Boston\'s recent past.
Raw and beautiful, this book is an evocative tribute to the City and its people..
Illuminating Boston\'s tenaCity and spirit, Dirty Old Boston presents our proud moments and our growing pains.
Photographs--assembled from family albums, student projects, institutional archives, and professional collections--reveal Boston as seen from the streets.
From ball games to dive bars, Dirty Old Boston also covers some of the city\'s most tumultuous events including the razing of neighborhoods, Boston\'s busing crisis, and the continual fight for affordable housing.
Dirty Old Boston chronicles the people, streets, and buildings from the postwar years to 1987.
And for good reason; after World War II, Boston changed rapidly, without apology, for better and worse, and in many ways forever.
When Jim Botticelli launched the Dirty Old Boston Facebook page as a salute to the gritty City he once knew, he discovered that thousands of people were equally nostalgic and curious about Boston\'s recent past
