Description: Digital Equipment Corp. Crosstown Industrial Park. Construction site of the Roxbury facility. Project sign lists John B. Cruz as contractor, Stull Associates as architect, showing minority developer involvement. Black construction workers. Building in progress. Huge mounds of excavated dirt, concrete blocks stacked up.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1979
Description: Construction of Porter Square T station on extension of MBTA red line. Heavy equipment and workers in front of BayBank branch. Traffic backed up on Massachusetts Avenue. Perini crane. Claw shovel excavates pit, releases dirt into dump truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1979
Description: Trench being dug with claw shovel around buried water pipes on Columbia Street, Dorchester. New cast iron pipes on sidewalk await installation. Two men measure length of pipe. Big pipe being cut with radial arm saw. Front end loader dumps dirt into trench. Gasket fitted around pipe. Man shovels dirt back into trench.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1979