Description: Architectural details on Boston buildings. US Custom House entrance, tilt up tower. Grain Exchange Building cornices, capitals, roof edge. State Street Block. Old and new structures around financial district: styles from several centuries adjacent. Board of Trade Building. State Street Bank high rise. Boarded up building on India Street. Mayflower Sandwich Shoppe sign. Joe & Nemo sign.
Description: Boston Fire Department works to extinguish remnants of fire in railroad yard (near Back Bay/South End?). Many hoses with arcing spray. Fire apparatus. Charred debris of freight cars and structural beams. Foster Electric trailer. Henry Wolfers Lighting. Many shots seen through smoke, haze, glare on lens. Water dousing burnt warehouse. Four firefighters, one black.
Description: PEDIATRICS WARD AT BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL (BCH), AMBULANCE,UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL,SOLOMON CARTER FULLER MENTAL HEALTH CENTER. Black children. Musical Santa Clauses emerge from ambulance.
Description: Mayor Ray Flynn presents new jobs program in cooperation with developers and businesses. Door-to-door canvassing to publicize opportunities.
Description: Boston building exteriors with snow: newer Hancock tower, Hynes auditorium, Westin Hotel/Copley Place, Boston police headquarters, Faneuil Hall, Quincy Market storefronts, JFK federal building, Government Center, Center Plaza, Suffolk County courthouse, federal district court in Post Office Square.