Revere Beach
the famous Coney Island of New England on the left. It is here that thousands seek relief from the city’s heat during the summer and the sandy beach is crowded with people. Follow the shore line. The point of land seen extending out into the water as you approach the rotary traffic is Nahant. Follow the rotary traffic around to your left and you come to Route 1-A again, passing over the new General Edwards Memorial Bridge. Continue over Route 1-A to the town of Lynn, turning right at Washington Street and proceeding along same to the Lynn Shore Drive where you turn left, following the trail of Boston’s finest summer playground. Approaching
Swampscott
you will be pleased with the natural beauty of the surroundings, and it is here that artists come from all over the country to paint pictures of a “stern and rockbound coast.”
Follow Route 129, passing the Civil War Monument on your left, to Puritan Road and bear right, soon passing on your left the
New Ocean House
famous for its cuisine and genuine New England hospitality. Now you begin to pass many beautiful summer estates, coming out once more at Route 129 where you turn right and follow along, admiring these lovely homes.
Swing right at Commercial Street in Marblehead, following to Gregory Street where you turn left, passing on the right the Hotel Marblehead and the Fo’cas’le, plainly marked by a huge anchor by the side of the road. You are now in historic
Marblehead
a typical old New England town with its narrow streets winding around like the cow paths of old. Here are interesting old houses and doorways and the rustic cottages of the fishermen which attract artists from all over the world. Turn right and then left through these narrow streets, pausing where you will at gift shops, antique shops and boat yards.