Description: Middle class Winthrop family can finally afford to buy their own home because of slump in real estate market. Single family houses on densely settled street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/13/1991
Description: Ray Flynn announces Borrower Assistance Program to provide loans to first-time home buyers to meet closing costs. Mortgage. Affordable housing. Home renovation. Painter and carpenters working outside.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1988
Description: Sen. John Houston explains three private sector task forces to examine fiscal problems in management of state government, local aid, and health care funding.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1989
Description: Boston waterfront. Dock scenes. Just caught fish in barrels on dock. Lumpers with rubber gloves and overalls. Boston Fish Market Corporation building. Press conference led by Massport director David Davis, who announces renovation of Fish Pier. Rep. Joseph Moakley speaks. He goes over the history of the fishing industry in Boston, Massachusetts, and the United States. He provides details on the redevelopment of the pier, and mentions the effects of the 200 mile limit enacted by Congress. Helen Keyes of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce speaks. George Kariotis, transportation secretary Barry Locke, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill are present.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/15/1979
Description: Fish identification program at Woods Hole. Flounder and sea robin in indoor tanks. Explanation of monitoring program to prevent depletion of various species by foreign fishing vessels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/18/1977
Description: Charles Bennett interviews a longtime fisherman on the state of the fishing industry and the change in quota regulations. Boat docked at Fish Pier in snow flurries. Boston Fish Market Corporation building on pier. Seagulls hover over water in the Boston Harbor. Assorted catch offloaded by the bucketful and sorted by hand into wooden bins. Fishermen in yellow and orange rain gear. Tracking hauls wooden bins of fish. Men inside booth listening to the radio.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1982
Description: MAYFLOWERS, BARE TREES, LOTS OF FISH IN STREAM (CAPE COD)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1982
Description: Fish being moved in buckets, barrels, and wooden crates on pier in Boston. Lumpers at work. Interview with two fishermen who say quotas prevent them from catching enough to pay their crew and make a living. Line of fishing boats tied up along pier. Close-up layers of fish with glistening skin and eyes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978
Description: Fish Pier environs. Boats tied up at dock's edge. Interview with fisherman Chris, who says catch quotas are too small to make a living. Fish weather vane. Blue rippled water surface. Harbor tour boat passes. Orange netting piled up. Heavy rope on cable pulleys on deck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/10/1978
Description: :30 PSA on competing interests of New England fishing and North Atlantic oil exploration. Rig in ocean, docked fishing boats, fishermen pulling in catch. Handout tape from US Department of Interior Minerals Management Service.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/01/1984