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Cash register transactions

Description: Tight shots of many customers' hands paying for merchandise with dollars at checkout counter of discount store. Sound effect of old fashioned cash register. Transaction with BankAmericard (Visa). Cashier places credit card and charge slip on sliding metal plate to make impression of number; then checks printed list of invalid account numbers. Reporter explains different ways to pay including cash and check, and the increasing availability of charge cards or electronic money.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1977

Food stamps

Description: Food stamps sign in windows of Stop & Shop and Finast supermarkets. One, five and ten dollar USDA coupons marked "Do not fold or spindle." Cashier's hand presses keys on register, opens drawer, inserts bills, makes change. Groceries move along belt at checkout. Groceries loaded into paper bag. Customer pushes full store carriage with toddler wearing Mickey Mouse cap in child seat. Magazine rack. Aisle of bottled and canned juices. Milk being stocked in dairy section. Cartons of jumbo eggs. Price sticker being applied to mugs. Register tape.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/23/1977

Liquid protein diet

Description: Various brands of predigested liquid protein on shelf at Arlington Health Foods. Book “Last Chance Diet” by Dr. Robert Linn. Interview with store manager on demand for the product, what type of customers use it, how successful they are losing weight. Vats of bulk grains. Shelves of vitamins and supplements. Customers paying at counter. Storefront.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/29/1977

Steve's Ice Cream, Somerville

Description: The original Steve's Ice Cream in Davis Square Somerville. Menu board. Old fashioned ice cream machine in window, churning with ice cubes, dasher scraped down with spatula. Steve Herrell, owner, peels bananas and purees them. Customer places order. Ice cream is squished with “mix-ins.” Interview with Herrell on FDA labeling regulation to list natural and artificial ingredients. Comments on using only pure ingredients and non-fat dry milk instead of casein substitute. Label on quart container.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977

TOCN show tape

Description: 1) Mort Zuckerman withdraws development plan for Park Plaza; comments from Mayor Kevin White, City Council President Joseph Tierney; Park Plaza environs, Trailways bus terminal, WEZE radio sign. (Karin Giger) 2) Gov. Michael Dukakis explains proposal for economic development aided by federal grants. 3) How meteorological forecasting is done; instruments at Logan Airport land station of National Weather Service; teletypes printing conditions; windshield wipers; Norm MacDonald. (Mike Kolwich) 4) DPU commissioner Reginald Lindsay on new rules for mediating disputes with New England Telephone. 5) Interview with economist Carolyn Shaw Bell on effect of Christmas shopping season. 6) Liability of ski area operators; Rep. Dennis Duffin; amateur downhill skiers on slopes. (Charlie Stuart) 7) Anchor Chris Lydon tells story of going to a Seattle jazz club with Georgia governor Jimmy Carter to hear Billy Eckstine.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/19/1977