There’s a special feeling that comes from looking at old photographs. They draw you backward in time and let you glimpse life as it was for your parents and grandparents. Here are a few fascinating vintage photographs of Massachusetts in the 1960s.

1. A Metropolitan Coach Lines bus at Waverley Square, 1967.
Wikimedia Commons/David Wilson
2. President Kennedy being interviewed by Walter Cronkite in Hyannisport, 1963.
Wikimedia Commons/Cecil William Stoughton
3. A group of college students in Brookline, circa 1965.
Flickr/Kent Kanouse
4. Cambridge City Hall as photographed in 1967.
Wikimedia Commons/George H. Cushing
5. A vintage advertisement for the Boston & Maine (B&M) Railroad service from 1963.
Wikimedia Commons/Boston and Maine Railroad
6. A family vacation in Wrentham, circa 1965.
Flickr/Glenn

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7. An old Hood Milk truck and a city bus in Cambridge, 1967.
Flickr/David Wilson
8. MIT Great Dome from the banks of the Charles River.
Wikimedia Commons/Daniel P.B. Smith
9. An MBTA trolley bus cruises in the Boston area, 1967.
Flickr/David Wilson
10. An aerial shot of Durfee Mills in Fall River from 1968.
Wikimedia Commons/Jack Boucher
11. Building #71 at the Watertown Arsenal, Watertown as photographed in 1969.
Wikimedia Commons/Jack Boucher
12. Ted Kennedy first campaigning to the Senate in1962.
Wikimedia Commons/Darth Kalwejt
13. A patriotic parade in Wrentham, circa 1962.
Flickr/Glenn

These old pictures are truly a blast from the past. For more vintage photographs of Massachusetts as it used to be, click here.

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