Finishing the Big Dig / Photo gallery
Finishing the Big Dig Demolition proceeds in another photo from 1954. This view is looking north from State Street. An elevated highway for downtown Boston had been envisioned as early as 1930, but it was not until the postwar start of the federal interstate highway program that the project finally got underway.

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