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For fans of Fallout 4 or also American history: A 50 year-old program for the Freedom Trail

I hope this isn't too out of place, being only tangentially related to video games, but I'm willing to bet that there are enough people who, like Mr. Drew Scanlon, appreciate history that this would be of some interest.

Almost exactly 50 years prior to my mother finding this program, she and her father were in Boston where they walked the Freedom Trail which Bethesda incorporated into Fallout 4. (Side note, it must have been bone-chillingly freezing that day.) I thought it would be cool to share the scans I took of this to show how that part of history was portrayed in the mid-1960s. The resemblance the Fallout version bears to what actually existed back then is uncanny. I especially liked the fact the city map still included Scollay Square, which was razed and built over soon thereafter. From what my father said, it was very much deserving of such treatment. I guess it makes sense, given that circa 1965 is close enough to the point at which the Fallout timeline diverged from our own that it would look a lot like this.

So yeah, hopefully someone in Bombland might appreciate this. Click on the image to view in greater detail. Enjoy!

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