| 41 - 50 of 50 | Next »
Number of results to display per page

State House interiors

Description: Massachusetts State House interiors. Senate door with sign on transom. House of Representatives door. House chamber empty; wide shot of rows of seats, podium, balcony. Reporter and camera operator discuss shots off camera. Several takes of reporter standup on the new 1979 state congress, specifically the power of Speaker Tom McGee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978

State of the State, Part 1

Description: Convening of a Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives. Interiors of the State House. Michael Dukakis proceeds into the chamber and delivers the State of the State address (for his first term as governor). His address touches on the state of Massachusetts towns, specifically North Adams, and the great benefits Massachusetts is able to provide people who need extra attention, including the elderly, handicapped, mentally disabled, mentally ill, and disadvantaged children. George Keverian, Kevin Harrington, William Bulger, Tom O'Neill and other state government dignitaries are present. Some video dropout. reel 1 of 2.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1978

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

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

Waterfront environs

Description: Waterfront park, Harbor Towers, Mercantile Wharf, Long Wharf, Chart House, Lewis Wharf, Joseph's Aquarium restaurant, Union Wharf. Sign 'lobsters shipped anywhere.' Commercial Wharf building boarded up. Prince building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1978

Waterfront hotel development

Description: Pull out from Commercial Wharf to hotel development site on Long Wharf adjacent to Chart House. People sitting on benches in Waterfront Park. Aerial photo of site. Architect's model of hotel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1978

White on city budget

Description: Mayor Kevin White press conference on city budget. Topics discussed include employment, crime prevention, the elderly, taxes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978