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Ambulance

Description: Driving along with Boston ambulance on Albany Street to rear emergency entrance of New England Medical Center. View from behind ambulance and then head on. Flashing lights and sirens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977

Charles River views

Description: Elevated view of Cambridge from Boston side of Charles River. Sailboats. Traffic over Longfellow Bridge. Then reverse view of Boston: State House golden dome with cupola. Prudential building in far right frame. Old Hancock adjacent to new Hancock with reflective surface. Pan west over MIT buildings on Cambridge side at a distance. Red line T train crosses river approaching Charles Circle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/31/1977

Fenway and Back Bay

Description: Fenway and Back Bay street environs. Snow on ground. Snow emergency no parking sign. Ornamental street lamp.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/03/1977

Finance Commission chair

Description: Interview with new Boston Finance Commission (FinCom) chair, lawyer Jeffrey Lambert. His job is to do studies in city finances to save taxpayers money by uncovering inefficiencies and improprieties. He wants to keep his research as apolitical as possible. Three flags fly over City Hall: US, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1977

Methadone clinic

Description: Austere interior of methadone clinic. Nurse at window counter with two pitchers. No addicts. Interview with doctor at Boston City Hospital on reason to develop alternative or transitional treatments for heroin addiction. Syringe in calibrated bottle of yellow liquid.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1977

Music Hall reception

Description: Fundraising reception for revamping of The Music Hall into the Metropolitan Theatre as a venue for ballet and opera. Gathering of Boston Brahmins. Wine, hors d'oeuvres, string quartet. Archival photo of grand interior of original theater. Betty Cook, Harry Lodge, Clara Wainwright.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/10/1977

Orange line in southwest corridor

Description: Orange line Egleston station. POV riding up escalator to outdoor platform with few passengers waiting. Empty train pulls up, people board. POV riding along track, looking inbound to Boston and down onto track bed. Train interior. Characteristic screeching and locomotion clunking sounds. Train passes through Dudley station. Map sign of MBTA subway system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

Statehouse

Description: Statehouse environmentals in Spring. Mrs. Healy and others.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1977

Stills of Boston 1850-1920

Description: Subway maps from Boston Transit Commission. Archival photos of downtown Boston and environs 1850-1920. Park Street, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, Bowdoin Square, Tremont, School, Arlington, and Newbury Streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Washington Street, Scollay Square, India Wharf, State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1977

Subway tunnel photos

Description: B+W archival photos of subway tunnel construction in downtown Boston, vicinity of Boylston and Tremont Streets, East Boston, Massachusetts Avenue, Broadway, Dorchester Avenue, Copley Square. Horse drawn trolley. Early MBTA tracks underground. circa 1895-1896 and later.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1977