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Kennedy Library

Description: John F. Kennedy Library and Museum opens. Exteriors of the building designed by I. M. Pei, with reporter voice over describing the facilities. Exhibit halls in the museum. Dave Powers addresses a crowd at the opening ceremony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/16/1979

Model of theater district

Description: Architectural scale model of Boston theater district showing proximity of Shubert, Charles Playhouse, Wilbur, Music Hall, Colonial, Essex, State, and Boston Repertory Theaters, NEMC, C-4 development parcel, Park Plaza Hotel, Stuart Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/07/1979

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

Truck terminal

Description: Truck activity around tandem trailer terminal near Coca-Cola bottling plant at intersection of Storrow Drive and Cambridge Street, adjacent to Mass. Turnpike and Allston Crossing rail yard. Tractor trailers with freight cars, fuel tanker, and covered dump truck pull in and out of terminal. Constant roar of motors. Sign for Sears Distribution Area Service Center. Containers parked without cabs. “Dangerous Cargoes Prohibited” sign. Data General building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1979