Charles River Park groundbreaking is held.

The event is held at 10 Emerson Place. Attendees include Mayor John Collins, former Mayor John Hynes, and Byron Elliot, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. The development, which consists of 23 and 16-story apartment buildings and townhouses, subsequently becomes know for a series of signs alongside Storrow Drive that read, “If you lived here . . . you’d be home now.” They were created by property manager Eunice West, who had seen such signs in front of a development in Maine. The first building opens in 1962.*