1950's Taconic Vistas
images scanned from Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? Yale 1963.
the tsp was begun in 1924, built in 4 major sections, coming to completion in 1965 at just over 105 miles. excellent history of the taconic state parkway from nycroads.com... "Roosevelt selected a route that would take motorists through a high, narrow ridge bounded by the Hudson River and the Catskills Mountains to the west, and by the Berkshire Mountains to the east. Unlike Moses, whose parkways encouraged the motorist to remain focused on the right-of-way, Roosevelt incorporated the sweeping landscape of rugged mountains and family farms into the design of the northern Taconic. This pastoral landscape supported his view of the history of the Hudson Valley."