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Boston architectural details

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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/04/1979

Combat zone architecture

Description: Structural details and signage on combat zone architecture. E.M. Loew's Publix Theater ('vaudeville, burlesque' words on brick side). Marquees of: The Scene: Adult Movies, Center Theater, featuring Chinese martial arts movies. Paramount and State Theater signs. Pussycat Cinema next to New England Medical Center. Interiors of a theater building, in the theater district. Sign for "Modern Theatre Restoration Circus." Interview with theater manager about reopening the theater, the shows they will feature, the restoration they will do on the building, including work with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and neighborhood development.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/15/1979

Combat zone buildings

Description: 'Ann Corio' on Charles Playhouse marquee. Pilgrim, Paramount, State, Savoy, E.M. Loews, Center, Star, Modern, Lyric Stage and Next Move Theater exteriors. Hotel Avery sign. Boylston building. Parking lot. “Adult films, Chinese movies, martial arts,” Combat zone, theater district.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/10/1979

Hancock buildings

Description: Vincent Canzoneri does several takes of reporter standup. Boston city skyline with State House dome. Juxtaposition of old and new John Hancock towers with Charles River in foreground, and then with city streets and Mass. Turnpike in foreground.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/05/1979

Hancock buildings

Description: Looking toward John Hancock glass tower over MIT dome from Main Street, Cambridge, at NECCO Candy factory. Then in Boston, close view of Hancock next to Trinity Church, which is also reflected in glass facade. Pan between building and fair weather clouds in blue sky. Grid of windows on monolith. Pan from busy intersection of Kenmore Square to Hancock.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1979

Insurance companies

Description: Constant traffic near Federal Reserve Bank and South Station. Noisy cars, vans, large and small trucks. One car screeches through intersection. Next location: Central Artery - camera looks down onto white line on road surface as stream of vehicles zip through head on from top to bottom of frame. Tilt up Travelers Insurance Co. building. Storefront of Morante Insurance Agency. Two men get into taxi in middle of street. Life of America Insurance Corp. home office. New England Life headquarters, pan to Prudential tower. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. inscribed over entrance to older building near newer Hancock glass tower. Liberty Mutual entrance. Zoom into upper Prudential building, bare tree to the side.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/17/1979

North End and South End

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

North Station

Description: Straight-on view of North Station / Boston Garden edifice. Causeway Street vicinity. Modern parking garage. Rapids Furniture. Fast food and Chinese restaurants. Steel structure of elevated trolley tracks from beneath. Taxis pull up to entrance with inscription "Boston and Maine Railroad." B&M commuter train moves slowly led by blue engine car. Tilt up/down Hotel Madison. Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus truck. Parking lot between rear of Garden and expressway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/23/1979

South Station Fort Point Channel area

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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1979