Description:
ART WORK ON DISPLAY AT NEW ALEWIFE T STATION, PAINTINGS, POETRY, BALLOONS
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/03/1985
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Description:
VISUALS OF NEW ALEWIFE T STATION, PAINTINGS, POETRY, SCULPTURE
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/03/1985
Description:
Scale model of Alewife T station. Interview with John Powers, project manager for red line extension. He describes construction of new station, garages, subway tunnel ready for fall '84. Says site is rich in clay; most of Boston's bricks were made in that area.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
02/25/1983
Description:
Allston Brighton environs. Busy intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Harvard Street. Storefronts of Macy's Liquors, Ken's Pub, Great Scott, Gladstone's. People get off green line trolley, close up on the T logo. Cars drive by, pedestrians cross the street and walk down the sidewalk. Cleveland Circle storefronts (small markets, CVS, bank, hardware). Beacon Street traffic approaches head on. Massachusetts Turnpike traffic in Allston; freight containers in adjacent rail yard.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/26/1979
Description:
Back Bay Amtrak station entrance. Train, viewed from above, starts up and moves slowly along tracks. Train histle and bells. Railroad bed. Commuter train pulls up, passengers board. Two trains pass in opposite directions. Looking down tracks to old and new Hancock buildings. Orange line elevated structure along Washington Street. T train passes overhead with typical clunking sound; congested vehicular traffic below. Camera moves on complex steel skeleton of tracks above.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
10/04/1977
Description:
Public art and sculpture installations are celebrated at Alewife, Davis, Porter, and Harvard T stations. Red line train arrives at Alewife. Animal tiles at Alewife. Artist Susumu Shingu, creator of mobile at Porter Square. Mags Harries' bronzed gloves along escalator rail. Glass enclosed elevator. Wavy surface relief on stone facade. Cow trompe l'oeil painting. Joan Mondale speaks at dedication. Brass quintet plays.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/03/1985
Description:
Silent footage of a mosaic in the Park Street Subway station that reads, "First subway in America," people looking at the art, a woman speaking to the crowd, and close up on sections of the artwork. Silent.
Collection:
WCVB Collection
Date Created:
12/04/1978
Description:
MBTA crews clean up Back Bay Station two days after Amtrak crash. Thomas Glynn. B-roll of injured passengers, crushed train parts, track wreckage.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/14/1990
Description:
Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/06/1980
Description:
Braintree, MA MBTA visuals; rain.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/21/1980
