[Helen V. Bird--home movies] Reel 11

Date1957

Viewing NotesS.E. xway being built 1957. [Construction of Southeast Expressway, Quincy, MA.] Prom day. House moved. Sally Lehto cottage.

Viewing NotesRepairing a house. Part of the neighborhood being dug up. Cranes demolishing a bridge. A girl (Janice) posing on the front steps of a house. Close ups of girls in formal dress. Janice posing in front of the house. The Gloucester Fisherman’s Memorial. Close up of the statue dedication: ‘THEY THAT GO DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS 1623 – 1925’. Shots of the water and fishing boats. Close up of the hull of a boat with the name ‘CAROLE SHEILA’. Girls in the motorboat ‘Lorna’. Sign: ‘The Natick’, on a house by the water. A dog. People swimming. A boat towing a man on a wake board. Girls swimming. Shots of houses and broken stone. The new bridge. [End of Reel]