Description: End of interview with Fred Salvucci at MIT on Central Artery depression and Gov. Ed King's opposition to it. “Stop I-95 People Before Highways” graffiti on wall at intersection of New Heath Street and Columbus Avenue. Traffic approaching Leverett Circle at end of Storrow Drive in rain. Overhead signs to Mystic Bridge, Charlestown, Callahan Tunnel.
Description: Small airlines at Logan Airport. Passengers waiting at Piedmont terminal. American Airlines planes cross on wet tarmac. Piedmont plane parked. Signs for Braniff, Lufthansa, Iberia, Northwest Orient, Van Dusen Aviation, Butler Aviation, Swissair. Braniff terminal. Northwest Orient and National ticket counters and gate area.
Description: Explanation of solar energy on roof of elderly housing project in Quincy. Collector cells concentrate sunlight and convert it into photovoltaic electricity to run pump motor to circulate hot water. Man describes installation costs for residential heating system and how savings are achieved.
Description: Interview with Solar Power Corp. president John Wurmser about Exxon owned local solar power company. As startup business in new industry, not yet profitable or cost-effective, but investment in future. Solar array, volt meter, silicon disk, propeller. Photovoltaics.
Description: 11 B+W wire service photos of South Boston residents opposing busing. Helmet bearing legend "Southie is my home town." Man with loudspeaker in car. Van with sign flipped upside down "Boston Under Siege." "Forced busing? Never!" under three-leaf clover. South Boston Information Center and Home School Association storefront.
Description: South Station Fort Point Channel environs. Giant Hood milk bottle concession stand. Congress Street Wharf sign: “future home of Children's Museum and Museum of Transportation.” Brick industrial buildings. Traffic over bridge. View toward Federal Reserve Bank. Sign on roof: Boston Wharf Company Industrial Real Estate. Barbershop pole. Several ‘for sale’ signs on commercial properties. Varied fenestration on adjacent facades — window patterns of different architectural styles. Zoom in to Anthony's Pier 4 restaurant on distant wharf. Chinese storefronts and leather business signs on South Street.
Description: Traffic on Mass. Turnpike in Newton and on Route 128. State police set up radar speed trap. Three troopers stand on shoulder of highway. They pull over car of teenagers who go through their wallets to produce identification.
Description: Children play in Wainwright Park in St. Mark's parish neighborhood of Dorchester. Younger boys ride bicycles and older youth congregate. Driving past multifamily houses on Welles Avenue and vicinity. Row of triple deckers facing vacant lot.
Description: Mostly women in clerical jobs at state office building 1 Ashburton Place. Gray metal desks, rotary dial phone. Civil servants, office workers, state employees. Tall file cabinets. Rows of shelves full of manila folders. Paperwork, bureaucracy, rubber stamping forms. In-baskets, manual typewriters.