Description: Interviews with Dorchester residents on Dorchester Fair Share's effort to get HUD or city of Boston to sell vacant properties to people who would rehabilitate them and pay taxes. B-roll of abandoned house on Bowdoin Street, Dorchester. Trashed interior. Other houses with boarded up windows.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/19/1976
Description: BOSTON STATE HOSPITAL EXTERIORS IN DORCHESTER - MATTAPAN, FOGGY, SIGN, BUILDING
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/13/1983
Description: B+W photos of Boston State Hospital grounds and rooms 1910 - 1957.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Description: Boston State Hospital buildings and grounds. Zoom in to research center modern building. Windy day, leaves scattering. Interview with elderly woman behind screen about changing character of Dorchester since 1945, and various uses proposed for hospital grounds - prison, youth services, elderly housing.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/07/1983
Description: Street environs of Codman Square Dorchester. Hardware store, First National Bank, Woolworth, Grant Building. Abandoned building plastered with posters. Branch library, small business storefronts. Interview with merchant Joe Katz who is optimistic about future of area, particularly as new grocery store opens. Female police officer on mounted (horse) patrol in rain. Mayor Kevin White on scene to inaugurate opening of Our Market (tape ends before he speaks). Timmy Clegg of Codman Square Community Development Corp tells of rejuvenation of closed supermarket with neighbor involvement.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1979
Description: DECREPIT STATE OF DORCHESTER DISTRICT COURTHOUSE, INSIDE TOUR, part 1
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1987
Description: INADEQUATE OFFICES, COURTROOMS, LOCK-UP IN DORCHESTER DISTRICT COURT, part 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/18/1987
Description: Judge James Dolan imposes cell occupancy limit in overcrowded Dorchester District Courthouse. Huge cracks and crumbling stone on exterior and decrepit interior.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/20/1988
Description: Judge Paul Liacos tours decrepit and overcrowded conditions at Dorchester District Courthouse. He looks for an alternative nearby location to conduct judicial business while courthouse is indisposed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/28/1988
Description: Interior architectural details and decor of Victorian house on Melville Avenue in Dorchester. Interview with homeowner Marlene Knight about why her family moved from suburbs to that neighborhood. Interview with Arthur Glass about why he bought house there. Both seek racially mixed area and affordability in the city.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/06/1976