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Bird Island flats

Description: Bird Island flats near airport. Macomber construction trailer. Parked bulldozer. Planes taxiing. Rear of Eastern Airlines terminal. Large ground area covered with tarpaulin. Empty roadway along the water lined with Jersey barriers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1983

Brock Adams on southwest corridor

Description: Outdoor press conference with Brock Adams, US Secretary of Transportation, flanked by Sens. Edward Brooke and Edward Kennedy, on southwest corridor mass transit project. Fred Salvucci stands behind them. $669 million in federal funds approved. An additional $1 billion will be invested through public/private initiatives for urban development contingent with relocation of the orange line. Kennedy and Brooke make grateful remarks. Reps. Mary Good and James Craven. Mel King appears (in t-shirt and baseball cap) to acknowledge the efforts of community activists. This very large scale public works project will create jobs and keep the neighborhoods from being physically divided along racial lines. Adams answers question on air traffic congestion expected at large airports.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1978

Deer Island prison

Description: Deer Island prison exterior with snow. Main brick dormitory and several outbuildings. Boston skyline across harbor with whitecaps on waves. Plane flying low on approach to Logan Airport touches down on runway in distance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

FONT SHOTS

Description: FONT SHOTS FROM SLIDES: SUPREME COURT, PENTAGON, BOSTON SKYLINE, LOGAN AIRPORT, US $ MAP, PLANE, JET.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/09/1981

Helicopter service

Description: Helicopter service inaugurated between Logan & waterfront hotels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1987

LOGAN, MARRIOTT, LONG WHARF

Description: BOSTON ENVIRONS, CITY HALL, LOGAN AIRPORT TOWER, LONG WHARF AND MARRIOTT, HARBOR
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/01/1985

MASSPORT

Description: B-roll footage of Massachusetts Port Authority (MASSPORT) structures and five MASSPORT workers on strike, picketing in a parking lot. Signs read "MASSPORT Unfair to Teamsters Local 137" and "On Strike." Footage of traffic on bridge; roadway. Motorcycle policeman with canine assistant wearing goggles on back of bike. Zoomed clip of air traffic control tower at Logan Airport; slightly larger group of striking workers circle in parking lot; state policeman regulates traffic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1980

Southwest corridor construction

Description: Audio goes in and out. Some video deterioration. MBTA southwest corridor construction site for orange line relocation. Urban Mass Transportation Project sign. Gov. Edward King gets out of car, shakes hands with bystanders. Secretary of Transportation James Carlin introduces King who talks about economic vitality created by largest construction project in Boston history. Signs bill transferring land from MDC. Governor King responds to question on extending Logan runways, and the actions of the board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and the executive director of Logan International Airport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1982

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