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Charlestown Navy Yard

Description: Interview on redevelopment of Charlestown Navy Yard. Environs of dry dock and old structures of yard. Mast of USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). Bulldozer clearing construction site. Several camera moves inside building 42. Glimpses of waterfront, Bunker Hill Monument, tug boat and container ship in harbor, buildings around Navy Yard, Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Construction sign “Charlestown Shipyard Park.” Old wharf building made of big granite blocks. Large wooden industrial building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1978

Harvard power plant

Description: Harvard University medical area energy plant under construction; will produce electric power via diesel engines. Located on corner of Brookline Avenue and Francis Street near Mission Hill. Men on scaffolding laying bricks. Big buckets of mortar hoisted with crane. Wheelbarrow is lifted to platform. Signs “men working” and “no trespassing.” Giant claw deposits cement in dump truck. Contractors J.E. White, Dorel, Anastasi Brothers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1978

Kennedy Library site preparation

Description: Early stage of site preparation for construction of Kennedy Library. Cement / concrete poured into forms with scaffolding. Bulldozer pushes rocks in water at edge of harbor. Claw shovel moves dirt onto dump truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/06/1978

Park Plaza revitalization

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis at press conference to inaugurate the Park Plaza revitalization project - construction of the transportation building surrounded by commercial and cultural development. Outside Dukakis dons hard hat, wields sledgehammer to ceremonially initiate demolition. Architect Marvin Goody follows. Crowd at intersection of Stuart and Tremont Streets observes crane beginning to knock down the Attic Lounge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/22/1978

Seabrook construction, Part 1

Description: Construction of Seabrook nuclear power plant. Wide shot of site. Hard hat workers, cranes, bulldozer, thousands of reinforcing rods. Area of excavation through rock walls. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1978

Seabrook construction, Part 2

Description: Construction of Seabrook nuclear power plant. Hard hat workers. Heavy equipment. Giant concrete tubes. Pan parking lot. Abandoned railroad tracks. Seagulls scavenge in field with felled trees. Interview with PSNH official Norm on delays and cost increases allegedly brought on by opposition groups. Talks about anticipated rally by Clamshell Alliance. Guarded entry booth. No Trespassing sign. reel 2 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1978

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978