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Blizzard second day

Description: Blizzard of '78. Snow falling and blowing. People digging out on Western Avenue. Plow on Storrow Drive. Chains on truck tires. Students and dogs on Harvard Square streets blanketed with snow. Cross-country skiers and people on snowshoes. Shots inside the news van, with radio reports on blizzard in the background. People trudge along Mt. Auburn St. and Mass. Avenue in Cambridge; some carry provisions on sleds. Massachusetts Avenue street sign. Man shovels out storefront. Deep snow banks. Tractor trailer jackknifed on Mass Ave. bridge over Charles River. People wait in line in front of White Hen Pantry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1978

Car dealers, NOW accounts

Description: Libon Motors Volkswagen dealer on Western Avenue in Allston. New and used VWs on lot. Window sticker with itemized price. Inside showroom at Porter Chevrolet. “OK” used car lot near Fresh Pond, Cambridge. Coolidge Bank in Harvard Square. Cool-O-Mat automated teller machines (ATMs). Suffolk Franklin Bank. Boylston-Fairfield branch of Shawmut Bank in Back Bay. Sign for NOW checking account paying 5% interest at Home Savings Bank.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1978

Harvard Coop record department

Description: Harvard Coop record department. Close-up on classical records and posters of conductors. Shelves of LP album spines. Shoppers browse bins. Customers pay, cashier opens register drawer, makes change, bags records. 8-track tapes stacked on shelves. Audio cassettes displayed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1978

Harvard Square, T strike

Description: Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue through Harvard Square. Subway kiosk with sign “Rapid Transit To All Points.” Cars stopped at corner of Dunster Street. Cars stopped on Boylston (JFK) Street. Sign for The Garage and Strawberries Records. “Closed” sign at red line station entrance. Out of Town News. Stacks of newspapers. Boston Herald American front page headline “Walkout may halt T today.” Yellow electric cable buses parked in Bennett Street MBTA yard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1978

Harvard Yard

Description: Harvard Yard, static and tracking shots. Bare trees and shallow snow. Students wearing parkas traverse the paths carrying books and knapsacks. Steps and Corinthian columns of Widener Library. Steeple of Memorial Church. Statue of seated John Harvard with snow. Food vendor outside gate. Entrance and ziggurat-like tiers of Science Center. Woman in wheelchair goes through doors. Adjacent Littauer building with classically columned grand facade.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1978

Strawberries Records

Description: Inside Strawberries Records in Harvard Square, Cambridge. LP albums of popular music displayed in bins and on wall brackets. Record price $4.69.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/27/1978