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Monthly Archives: May 2014
Children’s Day, Long Beach, Cape Ann, Mass., c. 1907
Back in the days when electric trolleys ran from Gloucester to Long Beach, the trolley company built this pavilion there. It housed a restaurant, dance hall, bowling alley and vaudeville theater. The pavilion was built in 1895. According to comments … Continue reading
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Granite Delivery and Wharf, Rockport, Mass., c. 1909
This postcard shows two separate wharves where granite was loaded onto schooners for shipment to places near and far. In the foreground is the present-day Granite Pier, then the wharf of the Rockport Granite Co. Behind it is the wharf … Continue reading
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Main Street, Rockport, Mass., circa 1907
This view shows Main Street in Rockport around 1907. The card was postmarked in Gloucester on July 23, 1907. It is a divided-back postcard, a type of postcard that was first produced in 1907. To the right is a screen … Continue reading
Two Views of the Hospital, Rockport, Mass., both c. 1907
Here are two views of the former Leander M. Haskins Hospital, which stood at the top of Summit Ave., on what is now known as Hospital Hill. As I’ve previously noted in posts here and here, Haskins was a prominent … Continue reading
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