The Best of Bay 8 – Continental Cablevision

Bay 8 – Local cable from the Gateway (to Cape Cod) area of Massachusetts (Wareham, Marion, Mattapoisett, Buzzards Bay.) A VHS tape made for prospective advertisers which shows a variety of clips of Bay 8 programming and features a voiceover and live audio. Digitized for web under the supervision of Lynda Ames. Archived by Wareham Free Public Library. Preserved as part of a collective effort of the members of the facebook group “Wareham, Massachusetts: The Greatest Town on Earth.” This is a VHS rip – therefore the quality of the footage is whatever the tape (age, etc.) and whatever standards were for the times each clip was shot.

Wareham Boy Scout Troop #1776 Trip to Philadelphia in 1976

8MM footage saved to VHS and digitized in 2020 for DVD and web. Part of the Video collection at the Wareham Free Public Library.

1997 Onset Fireworks Celebration

From a VHS tape kept at the Wareham Free Public Library.
Many shots of celebration before the fireworks including police and fire vehicles, a concert, vendor tables and more. Complete fireworks display follows.

Created by S.A.M. Video Productions of East Wareham

Wareham & Onset – 1930’s Movie Theater Schedule Cards

1941 Wareham High School Caper (Yearbook)

Click on the image to open the yearbook as a PDF in a new tab. This 1941 Wareham High School Caper yearbook belongs to Ellen Peltola.

1977: Cohasset Skippers vs. Wareham Vikings

The Cohasset Skippers visiting Spillane Field in Wareham, Massachusetts to take on the hometown Vikings. Footage digitized from 16 MM film.

Wareham’s Bicentennial 1939

Footage shot at Wareham and Buzzards Bay Massachusetts during Wareham’s Bicentennial in 1939. Footage preserved at Wareham Public Library and digitized in the winter of 2013 under care of historian/author Lynda Ames. Digitized at masshistory.