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
Description: Boston Celtics vs. Houston Rockets. K.C. Jones and Satch Sanders coach these teams. Game play shot from courtside. Players include: Dave Cowens, Sidney Wicks, JoJo White, Kevin Stacom, Curtis Rowe, John Havlicek, Cedric Maxwell, Saunders, Bing, Boswell. Buzzing from commentary can be heard in the background. Crowd cheers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Interview on redevelopment of Charlestown Navy Yard. Environs of dry dock and old structures of yard. Mast of USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Bulldozer clearing construction site. Several camera moves inside building 42. Glimpses of waterfront, Bunker Hill Monument, tug boat and container ship in harbor, buildings around Navy Yard, Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Construction sign “Charlestown Shipyard Park.” Old wharf building made of big granite blocks. Large wooden industrial building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1978
Description: Collegiate wrestling match - Iowa vs Iowa State.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1978
Description: Entrance of Colonial Theater lit up at night. Opening of “On the Twentieth Century” starring Madeline Kahn, Imogene Coca. Mayor Kevin White holds press conference in lobby on revitalization of Boston theater district. Producer/director Harold (Hal) Prince joins him. Deputy mayor Katherine Kane, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Sonya Hamlin. Theater district banner on Boylston Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Distant view of Columbia Point from top of Hancock building on hazy day. Public housing project is dense cluster of brick buildings on land jutting into Boston Harbor. Adjacent modern campus of UMass. Pan to BostonGas tanks in Dorchester. No sound.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978
Description: Ground Round under construction on Soldiers Field Road. Coca-Cola sign with digital clock on Storrow Drive. Wide shot of bottling plant with traffic passing. Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. Pan to White Fuel sign. Dunkin' Donuts sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1978
Description: Interview with Boston Police officer Francis Mickey Roache of recently formed Community Disorders Unit to address racial violence in the neighborhoods. He comments on fire bombing of Rodriguez family in Orient Heights housing project. Interview with black female plainclothes officer about role of Community Disorders Unit.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1978
Description: Inside Computer Mart in Waltham. Customer tries out Sorcerer program. Employee in back room tinkers with electronic components. Stands display personal computing magazines and manuals. Altair 8800 CPU. Printer types left to right and right to left. Strip mall storefront with 'for lease' sign. Interview with proprietor about outgrowing the location because personal computer business has multiplied rapidly. He sells systems to hobbyists and small businesses in cost range of $1,000 to $20,000.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1978
Description: Interview at Logan Airport about air traffic control conflict alert system in which radar scope shows planes flying too close in airspace. Also about runway 22L approach.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978