As summer begins its inevitable wane, we pay homage to the easily accessible beaches DOB types have long treasured. In their Golden Days, both Nantasket and Revere Beach were exciting honky tonks. Packed on any halfway decent summer day, beach boys and girls knew that right across the street at Revere Beach was the amusement park personified by ...

The elevated Charlestown line stopped in Thompson Square in 1975. The Boston Transportation Review guys looked at the line in the 1970s and considered extensions to reach 128, with terminals at Reading in the north and Dedham in the south. As a result of this review, the Charlestown Elevated, which served Charlestown north of downtown Boston, al...