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Tobacco sales

Description: Women buy cigarettes from vending machine at 70¢ per pack. Numerous brands stacked high on shelves in tobacco store. Pipes on display. Loose tobacco in glass canisters. Wrapped cigars in open boxes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/10/1978

Traffic lights

Description: Traffic lights at Boston intersections (Back Bay, Kenmore Square, Charles Circle) in rain: red, yellow, green arrows, don't walk. POV through windshield wipers driving down Marlboro Street. White Fuel and Citgo signs. Shreve Crump & Low and Martini Carl stores on corner of Boylston and Arlington. Buzzy's Roast Beef.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1978

Trash strike at BU

Description: Buildings and grounds workers strike at Boston University. AFL-CIO Local 254 picket signs. Trash has accumulated all over campus. Overflowing waste barrels, litter strewn on walkways. Custodial staff emerges from union meeting. Graffiti “Support the strike” and “No scabs.” Food debris spread on lawn. Garbage spilling out of dumpster. Trash bags piled around BFI receptacle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1978

Unleaded gasoline

Description: Gasoline is pumped at Mobil station. Unleaded costs 69.9¢ per gallon, super unleaded 73.9¢. Customer signs credit card slip. Separate pump dispenses “regular” (leaded) gas at 61.9¢. Tanker truck fills storage tank through opening in pavement. Camera follows cars headed eastbound on Storrow Drive.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1978

View from Fed roof

Description: Unique long, wide, and panoramic view of Logan runways against blue Boston Harbor and sky, as seen from top of Federal Reserve building. Planes taxi and take off. Next, looking across traffic on expressway toward North End buildings in distance. View of expressway framed between two high rises in financial district. Wide of Mystic River (Tobin) Bridge. Charlestown Navy Yard in foreground. Another wide landscape, almost abstract, of Logan runways. Follow plane into sky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1978

Views of Logan Airport

Description: High and wide shots from air traffic control tower of various areas of Logan Airport. Lanes marked on runways. Delta and TWA hangars. American Airlines planes on tarmac. Harbor adjacent to runways. Eastern terminal. Planes taxiing and turning on runway. View across harbor to Boston high rises. Helicopter ascends over water.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/09/1978

W. Michael Blumenthal

Description: Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal speaks at Quincy Market. Sponsored by New England Regional Commission. Carol Greenwald, state banking commissioner, in audience. Questions touch on decline of dollar value, unemployment rate, Federal Reserve and monetary policy, inflation and risk of recession.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1978

Walpole State Prison

Description: Inside Walpole State Prison. Guards walk back and forth in corridor, check paperwork. Prisoners play bumper pool in recreation room. Guard unlocks barred door, goes through, relocks behind him. Inmates walk past bars (shot from waist down).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1978

Walpole State Prison

Description: Inside Walpole State Prison. Guards in corridor seen through bars. Prisoner's hand sticks out through bars of cell. Gauzy high shot of group of prisoners around table in open area. Long shot of cell block tiers. Guard operates cell locks by remote switches. Clothing draped over railing. Guard pats down denim clad inmate while cell is searched.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/22/1978

Walpole lock-up

Description: Interview with inmate at Walpole prison about lock-up of B section (maximum security). Filthy interiors of cell block, dirty showers, debris from meals accumulated on floor. Inmates hold mirrors out through bars to show reflection of their faces to camera. Swearing and commotion are heard in background; prisoners complain about conditions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/04/1978