Perhaps the most dramatic disruption to life on the Charles River Campus was the construction in the early 1960s of the Massachusetts Turnpike Extension. As this 1963 photograph makes clear, the insult was greatest near the Boston University Bridge. Here we can see the alignment cutting under Commonwealth Avenue to accommodate the new highway (1) as well as the old Boston and Albany railroad line (2) and its replacement (3). The bridge under construction is the Carlton Street overpass (4) and the structure in the parking lot of what is now the BU Academy (5) is the long-lost Howard Johnson's restaurant. Aerial Photos International