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Gas Report

Description: "Leader: ""P2 Gas Report #7210 2/4/74""; A person serves coffee to people waiting in line in their cars for gas. ""Sorry no Gas"" and other signs at stations about their hours and customers. Interview with a man who runs a Howard Johnson restaurant near a gas station on his idea to serve coffee to people waiting for gas. More silent b-roll of the line for gas, people being served coffee in their cars, and gas pumps."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/04/1974

Gas Running Out

Description: Silent b-roll of cars waiting in line for gas at an Exxon station in Stoneham. Sign that reads "Simon says no gas till Feb. 1st." A gas station employee puts a stick down into the ground to check the levels in the gas tank. Reporter standup about how gas stations in the Boston area have a gas shortage due to new federal regulations. Footage of gas pumps with sign that reads, "No Gas today, Service Bays are open" with reporter voice over. Interview with Robert Stone, Vice President of the Independent Garage Owners of Massachusetts. Followed by cuts. Footage includes more of the interview with Robert Stone, b-roll footage of gas stations, idle workers at stations that have run out of gas, and long lines of cars at other stations. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/22/1974

Gas Search

Description: "Leader: ""P2 Gas Search #7122 01/25/74""; Interviews with people in cars at a gas station about how much gas they have in the tank and how long they have been looking for an open station. Bob Windsor reporter standup about customers searching for open gas stations. Silent b-roll of gas stations, ""out of gas signs"", and gas trucks. More interviews with customers and an oil truck driver."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 01/25/1974

Gas Station 1

Description: Interview with the gas station owner about the motivation behind the firebombings and why he is open 24 hours. Interview with another man from the neighborhood. Shot of the gas pumps. Mix of sound and silent. This is 1 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Service Station Firebombings - A Codman Square gas station has been firebombed three times in last three months... racially motivated... the owner is taken to sleeping at the station."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1976

Gas Station Hearing

Description: People in the State House for a hearing. Shots of logos on shirts from several different gas stations and b-roll of the hearing. Testimony from a service station owners about supplier owned gas stations, and pressures to sell more gas. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 03/20/1975

Gas Station Protest

Description: "Leader: ""P2 Gas Station Protest #7318 2/14/74""; Silent b-roll of a gas station. Interview with a station operator (Giordano). Roger Goodrich reporter standup about government gas regulations causing confusion with gas station owners. Interviews with other gas station workers. More b-roll of cars waiting in line at a gas station, license plates, and reporter outtakes. Gas station employees express confusion and disagreement with fuel conservation regulations."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/14/1974

Gas Station, pt 1.

Description: Footage includes the exterior of the gas station with a burned sign, fire damage inside, a man pouring water in a radiator, Anchor gas sign, and gas pumps. Mix of silent and wild sound. This is 2 of 2 reels. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Service Station Firebombings - A Codman Square gas station has been firebombed three times in last three months... racially motivated... the owner is taken to sleeping at the station."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/24/1976

Gas Stations

Description: Interview with a man who works at Ron Clancy's gas station in Brookline about customers who don't buy gas. Reporter standup. Reporter voiceover about a call to protest self-serve gas stations that have no oil, air, restrooms, or other perks and therefore have lower overhead and cheaper gas. Independent dealers are asking for people to protest the self-serve stations. Reporter closing standup in front a gas station about the protests failure. Sound
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 07/03/1976

Gas Tax

Description: "Leader: ""P2 Gas Tax #10859 12/26/74""; Interviews with customers, gas station owners. and Congressman Michael Harrington on a possible gas tax. Silent b-roll of gas station, gas prices, people filling their cars. about the possibility of Jim Boyd reporter standup about a possible increase in the gas ta by President Ford. Outtakes include more interviews with drivers at a gas station and reporter outtakes."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/26/1974

Gas for Customers Only, pt. 2

Description: During the gasoline crisis in the 1970's some station owners restricted sales to regular customers only. In response to this tactic and several others, Federal Energy Director William F. Simon prohibited station owners from discriminating against customers. This story is about how gas station owners are responding to this new regulation. Silent footage of a gas station and "customer only" signs being taken down. This is 2 of 2 reels.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/13/1974