Description: Urban mayors gather in Boston for National League of Cities conference. They focus on need for housing assistance and problem of homelessness. Ray Flynn, Tom Bradley, Henry Cisneros, William Hudnut III.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/05/1988
Description: Ray Flynn's six month trial needle exchange program gets hearing in City Council. Dr. George Lamb explains it; Dapper O'Neil opposes, Rosaria Salerno favors. Person shooting up. Intravenous drugs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/11/1988
Description: Ray Flynn and Edward Kennedy address gathering to inaugurate new Boston City Hospital construction. Steam shovels and welder at excavation site adjacent to old BCH.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1991
Description: Lab interior at New England Nuclear in Boston. Technicians in white coats, gloves, protective shoe coverings. Working at glass shields titrating liquids in vials, flasks. Rat in plastic bin. Radiation detection meter, geiger counter clicking. “Caution Radioactive Material” sign. Waste bins being emptied. Solutions manufactured from isotopes “tagged” with tritium or carbon-14 for biomedical research tracers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1982
Description: Demonstrators on State House steps demand more funding for human services (necessitating new taxes).Dukakis,legislative hearing.Paul Kollios, Frank Keefe, John Houston, Marie Parente, Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1988
Description: NEWBURY STREET APARTMENTS NEEDING REPAIR, REALTY OFFICES. Courtroom art of Laval Wilson, school department and desegregation plaintiff's attorneys, Judge Arthur Garrity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/21/1985
Description: Driving past Newbury Street storefronts and buildings. Emmanuel Church, Society of Arts and Crafts, Diutshfurs, Kakas Furs, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Cuoio, Priscilla Bridal, Josephs. Along Boylston Street - Sheraton Towers next to Pru, Lord & Taylor, Hotel Lenox, Boston Public Library, glass Hancock tower next to Trinity Church, Elkins, Louis, The Fatted Calf, Ken's, Malbens Gourmet, Casual Corner, Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Charles Street traffic, brick sidewalks, The Lyric Stage. Driving past brick rowhouses on Beacon Hill. Wrought iron balconies. Lower Commonwealth Avenue with grassy mall.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/19/1978
Description: Reps. Sullivan, Ruane propose FY91 spending cuts instead of raising taxes.Voke, Bosley, McDonough oppose it. Human services lobby submits poor people's budget.Blood drive sign.State House exterior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/25/1990
Description: Whittier Place sign and high-rise buildings of Charles River Park. Brick buildings in North End. Laundry hangs from clothesline out window. Drago's Italian Bakery storefront and pizza sign. Prince building near waterfront. Environs near Commercial Street. Lobsters sign. All-day parking $2.25. Victorian houses on Ashmont Hill. Complex roof with eyebrow window, turret, balustrade on widow's walk. Mansards. Decrepit facades in Codman Square. Liquor store on Washington Street. “We Can” Neighborhood Improvement Association. Blackstone Park in South End. Housing project. Elevated orange line structure (no trains) runs down middle of street. Attached brick townhouses on Union Park. Rehabilitation in progress; building permit displayed in window. Ornate dormer, white iron balcony. St. Germain street sign. Gentrification, condominium development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/14/1979
Description: Commuter train terminal of North Station. Commuters wait on outdoor platform. PA voice announces track numbers, train stops, departure times. Two conductors talk to passenger. Railroad bed strewn with litter. Blue engine car. B&M (Boston and Maine) logo. Man reads newspaper while waiting. Man carries bouquet of flowers. Men carry briefcases. People move en masse to board train. Man smokes. Train slowly pulls out of station, sounds whistle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978