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Visions for Boston

Description: Boston Society of Architects has organized a contest asking designers to rethink Boston for the future. Both fanciful and practical entries were encouraged. Exhibit of their drawings. Interview with Steven Cecil of the BSA committee that organized the event. He describes the goals of the contest and highlights some of the entries, including one by Boston architectural firm Communitas. Dramatic view from high window of Boston landscape Hancock tower in center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1988

WALTHAM HOSPITAL

Description: WALTHAM HOSPITAL EXTERIORS, AMBULANCE, SIGNS, NURSES
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1984

WILLIAMS AND SYMPHONY HALL

Description: INTERVIEW WITH CONDUCTOR JOHN WILLIAMS. Symphony Hall entrances along Huntington Avenue. BOSTON POPS 100th season poster.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1985

WNEV, Channel 7

Description: Footage of exterior of RKO General Building: Channel 7/WNAC-TV; WRKO AM; WROR FM. Pans along side of building to sign. Takes of reporter Callie Crossley reporting on loss of Channel 7's license, to be taken ownership of by NETV. Clip of Channel 7 exterior building sign; RKO General building sign; agreement contract for interim operation of WNAC-TV (Channel 7). Footage of glass display window with images of Channel 7 reporters; close-up of reporter images and WNAC TV Boston sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/22/1982

Wang Center

Description: Wang Center grand lobby, staircase, lit only by chandeliers. Marble columns with ornate capitals. Ceiling mural with rococo gold framing. Poinsettias and Christmas wreaths. Interview with Fred Wang on his family's $3 million challenge gift to preserve building and enhance theater district. Interview with Joseph Hobbs, director of Wang Center; says biggest difficulty is booking good performances, not attracting an audience.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1983

Waterfront Park, Deer Island

Description: Long Wharf Marriott. Chart House restaurant. New England Aquarium. Pedestrians. Parked taxi. View from Waterfront Park to expressway, Government Center skyline in background. Many shots inside Deer Island sewage treatment plant. Temperature and pressure gauges. Screen splits (top half of image appears on the bottom have of the screen) in the middle of the video.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1982

Waterfront hotel development

Description: Pull out from Commercial Wharf to hotel development site on Long Wharf adjacent to Chart House. People sitting on benches in Waterfront Park. Aerial photo of site. Architect's model of hotel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1978

Welfare office

Description: Exterior of welfare office at 1491 Tremont Street in Roxbury. “Overseers of the Public Welfare” inscribed above entrance. Several people, mostly black, walk by and enter and exit the building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1977

Wilbur Theater

Description: Theater district. Woman typing in internal offices of Wilbur Theater. B+W publicity photos of actors in roles: Eva LaGalienne, Brian Bedford, George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Jack Albertson, Frank Langella. Stuart Street environs. Music Hall marquee. Ticket trailer. Tufts Dental School building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1978

Woburn hazardous waste

Description: Footage of a hazardous waste dump site in Woburn. Building surrounded by trees, close-up of building door with lock; pans over grassy area around building. Footage of worn down old chemical plant and train tracks running by it; "POISON" sign hanging from corrugated metal building; field and buildings behind chain link fence; freight train with lumber passes by. Piles of barrels behind chain link fence. Barbed wire fence stretches length of railway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981