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Blizzard aftermath

Description: No audio through first half of video. Aftermath of blizzard of '78. Sunny day on impassable highway with abandoned, buried cars. Snow removal by bulldozer. Tire skidding. Driver cleans off covered car. Interview with John Tarbox, a driver from Rockland, MA who was stranded. He gets in his still buried car and starts it up. Interview with Donald Jones, a young army man from California, who has never seen snow. State police cruiser, helicopter.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1978

Commercial signs

Description: Ground Round under construction on Soldiers Field Road. Coca-Cola sign with digital clock on Storrow Drive. Wide shot of bottling plant with traffic passing. Citgo sign in Kenmore Square. Pan to White Fuel sign. Dunkin' Donuts sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1978

Falling snow in Boston

Description: People walk across expanse of City Hall Plaza as snow falls at Government Center. Four children repeatedly slide down snow pile on plastic flying saucer. Slow moving traffic at dusk on Southeast Expressway - light snow, slick roads, headlights.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/13/1978

Southeast Expressway, Columbia Station

Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

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