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Boston architectural details

Description: Architectural details on Boston buildings. US Custom House entrance, tilt up tower. Grain Exchange Building cornices, capitals, roof edge. State Street Block. Old and new structures around financial district: styles from several centuries adjacent. Board of Trade Building. State Street Bank high rise. Boarded up building on India Street. Mayflower Sandwich Shoppe sign. Joe & Nemo sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1979

Combat zone architecture

Description: Structural details and signage on combat zone architecture. E.M. Loew's Publix Theater ('vaudeville, burlesque' words on brick side). Marquees of: The Scene: Adult Movies, Center Theater, featuring Chinese martial arts movies. Paramount and State Theater signs. Pussycat Cinema next to New England Medical Center. Interiors of a theater building, in the theater district. Sign for "Modern Theatre Restoration Circus." Interview with theater manager about reopening the theater, the shows they will feature, the restoration they will do on the building, including work with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and neighborhood development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/15/1979

Model of theater district

Description: Architectural scale model of Boston theater district showing proximity of Shubert, Charles Playhouse, Wilbur, Music Hall, Colonial, Essex, State, and Boston Repertory Theaters, NEMC, C-4 development parcel, Park Plaza Hotel, Stuart Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1979

Safdie's North Station plan

Description: Mayor Kevin White holds press conference in Boston Garden lobby to announce Moshe Safdie's plan to redevelop North Station area. Credits BRA director Robert Ryan, standing by, for inspiration. Safdie explains plan, pointing to massive architectural model. It involves creating an island in the Charles River, moving the elevated green line trolley, and either a new arena for Celtics and Bruins or a major renovation of the Garden.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979