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When Route 66 went through the Back Bay
By adamg on Sat, 08/27/2016 - 4:39pm
Some things don't change much in Boston, as you'll see in this intro to an episode of the old Martin Milner vehicle, if you can dig it.
Bikeyface notes the episode was directed by Elliot Silverstein, who got local boy Leonard Nimoy his start in acting.
Via Boston Reddit.
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Storrow
That's the happiest I've ever see someone driving down Storrow Drive. Ever.
there was another episode in boston
to walk with the serpent.. they stayed at the statler hilton... 1962
this one oct 13 1961
A good episode..
They drove the corvette around the North End and Charlestown.
How Little Things Have Changed — There's Even A Trump Rally
( except back then, they carted lunatics away in a straightjacket )
Sink the Bismark by Col
Sink the Bismark by Col Prescott.........
That was some real agressive driving..
..exiting Storrow and turning on Beacon. And they found a parking space in front of their destination!
I Suspect That Was Choreographed
( late model GM cars strategically stopped on the exit ramps )
They had to be aggressive
After all, they obviously overshot the Beacon Street exit coming east and needed to turn around and head west - at Charles Circle perhaps.
Opioid Crisis, circa 1961!
Robert Duvall plays a heroin addict, heading up Beacon Street toward the Public Garden. Hope they are calling 911.
No, "Public Gardens"
Ugh/sigh.
--gpm
Were these the pre or post
Prefecto Telles episodes?
Of the entire series
only two or three episodes were actually shot along sections of US 66. In the Mad Magazine parody of the show (titled Route 67), they deliberately pointed this out:
and later
life was better then
you still have to kick the habit the old fashioned way.....
life was better .. rem the old bpd? i do who was around in 61? common pub garden looked cleaner..
old granary bury ground and the charles boston/camb side the stores were diff
erent subway was cleaner