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Customers wait to enter the White Hen Pantry on Mass Ave, Boston during the Blizzard of '78.

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Scenes from Packy Connors Pub on Blue Hill Avenue, Roxbury in 1999.

Kenmore Square, Boston seen in 1980.

Fenway Park crowd in the early 90s.

Boston's notorious adult entertainment district known as the Combat Zone was located on lower Washington Street bordering Chinatown. Here's how it looked in September, 1985.

People on the street interviews in Boston's Back Bay during Hurricane Gloria on September 27, 1985.

Students at Providence College, react to their school in the NCAA 1987 Final Four.

Rosie Ruiz won the 1980 Boston Marathon Women's Division but people became suspicious during the post Marathon interview when she provided curious answers to the questions. She also didn't appear as though she had just run a Marathon. "We missed her at all our check points."

Celtics fans outside Boston Garden in 1985.

"What city please?" Before smartphones, telephone users could dial Directory Assistance to get phone number listings. The ease of simply dialing 411 led some people to abuse the system, as seen here in April, 1978.

World Halfball World Tournament in Charlestown, MA in 1983. Halfball is like stickball but the ball is cut in half. The bat is usually a broomstick.

Boston College students at a pub on campus in April, 1985.

Harvard students along the Charles River spell out the letters for GLORIA for the GBH News camera crew during Hurricane Gloria on September 27, 1985.

Downtown Boston pedestrians in March, 1986.

Move-in day for college students in Boston, 1982.

East Boston residents react to seeing the Ten O'Clock News van driving through their neighborhood in August, 1976.

Holiday shoppers at Bradlees in December, 1989.

Boston's North End on December 19th, 1984.

Red Sox opening day in April, 1977.

Arthur Fiedler, the legendary Boston Pops conductor, makes his way through an adoring crowd on his way to the Hatch Shell for the Fourth of July concert in the late 1970s. Arthur was the founder of the outdoor concerts on the Esplanade with the first one on July 4, 1929.

Framingham, MA Shopper's World area seen in the 1980s.