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Boxing

Description: Interiors scenes in the Somerville Boxing Club. Trainers working with boxers. Two boxers sparring in the ring. Callie Crossley interviews boxers and trainers on the alleged dangers of boxing compared to other sports and the American Medical Association's proposal to ban amateur and professional boxing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/12/1984

Powderhouse and Davis Squares

Description: Powderhouse Square Somerville. Shirtless young men play basketball. Line of storefronts: travel agent, Japanese restaurant, Gracious Goodness Bakers & Caterers, Winter Hill Printing Co. Inc. Reproduction Services, Goodell Drug, Broadway Broadway Hair Designs, tailor/cleaner, Kostos Family Food Stores. Davis Square construction of T below street, crane. Holland Street. Typical row of signage. Billboards atop buildings. Original Bertucci's Pizza and Steve's Ice Cream, Ruby Begonia Plants.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1982

Steve's Ice Cream, Somerville

Description: The original Steve's Ice Cream in Davis Square Somerville. Menu board. Old fashioned ice cream machine in window, churning with ice cubes, dasher scraped down with spatula. Steve Herrell, owner, peels bananas and purees them. Customer places order. Ice cream is squished with “mix-ins.” Interview with Herrell on FDA labeling regulation to list natural and artificial ingredients. Comments on using only pure ingredients and non-fat dry milk instead of casein substitute. Label on quart container.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977

Union Square, Somerville

Description: Union Square storefronts, traffic. Coca-Cola delivery van. Bel Canto restaurant. “Adults only” bakery. Merchants extol virtues of doing business in Somerville with hope for revitalization of small commercial districts. Reporter interviews local shop owners about the effects of the development of Union Square. Fire station. Wide view of Boston skyline from Prospect Hill. Pan horizon and residential rooftops.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1982