Description: Harvard Square environs. Rapid Transit sign over Harvard Square kiosk. Out of Town Tickets. People step off narrow escalator ascending from subway station. T sign, subway system map with “You Are Here,” bus routes map sign. People go downstairs to red line station. Harvard Trust Company sign, Harvard Coop, Nini's Corner. Electric bus with overhead cables. Abandoned red line trolleys parked in MBTA lot behind Harvard Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1977
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
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
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: 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
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
Description: Aerials of Harvard Square environs on a gray morning. Shot from roof of Holyoke Center looking out in all directions, zooming to and from buildings in Harvard Yard. No sound.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/08/1979
Description: Red line MBTA station at Harvard Square. Newer silver car with red stripe. Older blue car pulls into station. People descend staircase to subway platform. People pass through exit turnstiles out to street. Bus comes to stop near Harvard/Brattle station entrance on Eliot Street. Many passengers step off another bus. Exact fare coin box.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1979
Description: Harvard Square b-roll, buildings and pedestrians on street. stand-ups of reporter Seth Rolbein at end of tape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/27/1980
Description: Harvard Square in the rain shots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1981
Description: Interior shots of the Tasty Sandwich Shop in Harvard Square. Customers at counter, man cooking. Undated, c. 1982.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1982
Description: Books at the Harvard Bookstore. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/18/1982
Description: Enviromentals: MBTA buses and commuters in Harvard Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1982
Description: Poet Seamus Heaney readings his poems at Grolier Book Shop, with introductions to each poem, and banter before and in between readings. The poems read are, "Digging" "Follower" "What ever you say, say nothing" "Oysters" and "The Guttural Muse".
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1982
Description: Antibiotics, crowd shots, Harvard Square, Kenmore Square. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/30/1982
Description: Some bits of video drop out throughout. Footage for a story on the profusion of businesses serving alcohol near the University Lutheran Church. Exteriors of restaurants in Harvard Square: Grendel's Den; Ahmed's, Henri IV; Casa Mexico; Paco's Tacos; The Boathouse; Arkadia; Wursthaus; Cave Atlantique wine store; Whitney's Cafe. Mainly bars and cafes on John F. Kennedy Street. Exteriors of University Lutheran Church. Additional footage of Le Beau Geste on Huron Avenue and Le Bocage in Watertown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1982
Description: Red line T construction. Harvard Square stop, tunnel, tracks. Western Avenue, Cambridge. Interview with a man from the Department of Public Works (DPW) about the roads and bridges in Massachusetts - spending approximately $500 million per year - $100 million in paving, $150 million in bridges, $250 million in safety and new roads. He states that there are about 14,000 miles of road in Massachusetts and about 1/3 of those roads need serious work. He approximates that out of the 5,000 bridges in Massachusetts, 2,200 are in substandard shape, 900 in critical condition. DPW infrastructure includes roads, bridges, transit, airports, sewer and water. He explains the need for the federal government's assistance. He states that these projects will create jobs - approximately 90 jobs per million dollars spent.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1982
Description: HARVARD CUPOLA, BOATHOUSE, CHARLES RIVER, PEOPLE WALKING NEAR HOLYOKE CENTER
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/19/1982
Description: Interview with manager of Grendel's Den about obstacles to liquor license approval. Interview with Pebble Gifford of Harvard Square Defense Fund about profusion of liquor licenses changing character of the area, especially more crime. Diners at tables, menu, salad bar.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/13/1982
Description: Poet Seamus Heaney reads excerpts from “Sweeney Astray," in Grolier Book Shop. No audio at the very end.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1984
Description: COMPACT DISCS (MOSTLY CLASSICAL) IN RECORD DEPARTMENT OF HARVARD COOP
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/25/1984
Description: WINTER FESTIVAL ICE SCULPTURES IN HARVARD SQUARE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1985
Description: ICE SCULPTURES IN HARVARD SQUARE AT NIGHT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1985
Description: ICE SCULPTURES IN HARVARD SQUARE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1985
Description: ENVIRONS OF HARVARD AND CENTRAL SQUARE CONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1985
Description: CHESS PLAYERS ON FORBES PLAZA (HOLYOKE CENTER), HARVARD SQUARE ENVIRONS. INTERVIEW WITH J.D. POLLACK OF BRATTLE THEATER.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1985
Description: Harvard Square landmarks. The Garage, Coop, JFK Street, kiosk, T station, BayBank, Brattle Theater, Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Wordsworth.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1985
Description: HARVARD SQUARE SHOPS ON RAINY DAY. T ENTRANCE AND TRAFFIC OUTSIDE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1985
Description: IRANIAN STUDENTS PROTEST IN HARVARD SQUARE VS US AID TO IRAN AND IRAQ AT WAR. Amnesty International.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/13/1987
Description: Pedestrians in Harvard Square shot anonymously from the waist down. Also view of Square through vaseline smeared lens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/15/1987
Description: Dukakis' barber, George Papalimberis, in Harvard Square shop tells how he met the governor and opines about the presidential candidate. Hair cutting.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1988
Description: Harvard union organizer Kristine Rondeau and supporters demonstrate outside Holyoke Center for affordable, available day care for children of clerical workers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/01/1988
Description: 20 years after Harvard student strike, radicals reunite in the Yard to recall their activism and proclaim continued commitment to ideals. Harvard Medical School exteriors. Mission Park apartments.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1989
Description: Pedestrians in Harvard Square in summer clothes. Masses crossing intersection at Nini's Corner. Feet and legs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1989
Description: Saudi Prince Turki, brother of King Fahd, encamps at Charles Hotel, apparently to visit Harvard. Hosts lavish press reception. Previously as Miami resident, he had run-in with police. File of Miami hotel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1990
Description: In fourth Middlesex district, three candidates vie for state senate seat. Doug Howard and Helen Metros face incumbent Robert Havern. Charlie's Kitchen exterior in Harvard Square.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1990
Description: Clergy and religious hold vigil in Harvard Square to commemorate anniversary of Jesuit murders in El Salvador and to protest US aid and military cover-up. John Kerry stands with Edward Kennedy. Joseph Moakley.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1990
Description: Harvard graduate student Marjorie Damon whose Marine son is in Persian Gulf mulls over dichotomy of elite education vs. military service. Students in Harvard Yard with umbrellas.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1991
Description: Chess grand masters gather outside Holyoke Center to play all comers to raise money for homeless people under the auspices of Philips Brooks House, charitable organization at Harvard. Forbes Plaza.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1991