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.
From ball games to dive bars, Dirty Old Boston also covers so.
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