It’s a strange notion to consider that Boston hasn’t followed a master plan since the last one was issued in 1965. Though Mayor Walsh is crowdsourcing ideas to fulfill the first master plan in half a century for a more innovative Boston by 2030, it’s interesting to see how the 1965 plan shaped our Boston of today.

The last master plan, which was drafted under Mayor John Collins in 1965, served a much different municipal need than what Mayor Walsh’s aims to, though much of what it yielded still accentuates Boston’s streetscape.

Before announcing the plan’s development at Faneuil Hall last Wednesday, May 6, the mayor told reporters that the 1965 master plan was was intended to revitalized specified areas for development as opposed to a citywide undertaking.

By this time, much of Boston had started to deteriorate due in part to the emergence of suburban living and the decline in manufacturing. Prior, in 1950, a master plan was created to account for Boston’s manufacturing muscle and spike in population growth to more than 800,000 in the post-WWII era. The comprehensiveness of that plan, said Mayor Walsh, was similar to what he hopes to achieve.

Boston continues to be a haven for next-generation technologies, startups and entrepreneurs, and arts and culture which means that the upcoming plan – aptly dubbed Imagine Boston 2030–  will extend far beyond urban development and include initiatives that break down neighborhood barriers and provide cohesion for communities that sometimes live in silos. This, said Mayor Walsh, will include public art installations, environmental sustainability and non-traditional transportation improvements, to name just a few.

But before we look toward what Boston could become over the next 15 years, it’s interesting to see what was accomplished 50 years ago that currently affects our daily lives. From popular tourist destinations to government facilities to the perpetually newsworthy MBTA, here are seven items from the 1965 master plan that are mainstays in Boston.