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| Contract: Leonard Lawson and Rudolph F. Hodgkins Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Contract: Leonard Lawson and Rudolph F. Hodgkins Northeast Harbor Library | |
| Gordon and White Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon and White Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Gordon and White Garage with Exxon pump. |
| Moore's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: In 1940 Southwest Harbor Motor Co. was the only AAA filling station in Southwest Harbor. Their phone number was 51-2. The brick building was converted to offices to rent in 1986-1987. The U.S. Post Office opened in the building on June 2, 1987. Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) attended school in the elementary school on the present ellipse (behind the Gilley Plumbing building on the left of this photograph) before it was moved across the street to become a fire station and now [2011] the police station/town office. When the bank was housed at the Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Ralph would take his penny bank there to be unlocked and have the money deposited in his bank account. The lady in the bank would show him the big safe where is money would be kept. – Ralph Warren Stanley 01/17/11 Marion E. Newman (1890-1976), Mrs. Frederick Walter Wescott at the time, owned a yellow Stutz Bearcat that was destroyed in the fire. Marion was known for having invested in Coca Cola stock and holding on to it when others thought it worthless and sold their stock. – Ralph Warren Stanley, 03/31/14 [show more] | ||
| Sim Mayo's Garage Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Gordon & White Garage Howard E. Robinson Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Description: Howard Ernest Robinson (1896-1972) purchased site for the garage from Isaac F. Stanley in 1924. Howard built a garage there in 1928. He sold the garage and property to Earl Gordon (1893-1964) and Leslie Frank White (1891-1967) in 1929. They established the Gordon & White Garage. The Gordon & White garage, on Main Street in Southwest Harbor, was an Esso station and sold Fords, Mercurys and Kiekhaefer Mercury outboard motors. The gas pumps were removed in 1985 by the new owner, Tom Landers, who renamed the business Landers Ford. [show more] | ||
| Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Company Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Writing on back of photograph reads: "Tom Brennan, Chauffeured for “Spahr” Family, Pierce Arrow Auto" | ||
| Walls Garage, Seal Harbor Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Walls Garage, Seal Harbor Northeast Harbor Library Description: Walls Garage in Seal Harbor, subsequently Robert DeRevere became owner. | ||
| Icicles on Moore's Garage from the Edwin Albert Lawler House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Icicles on Moore's Garage from the Edwin Albert Lawler House Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Moore's Garage Co. and Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The photograph shows Gilley Plumbing Co. to the left of Moore's Garage, and an early location of the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Company in the right portion of the building. | |
| Northeast Harbor Garage Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Northeast Harbor Garage Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of Photograph of Northeast Harbor Garage, on the corner of Neighborhood and Rockend Road with two men shoveling snow following the blizzard of 1937. Scanned from Facebook. | ||
| George Brown's Garage after Fire Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  George Brown's Garage after Fire Northeast Harbor Library Description: Main Street, Northeast Harbor: Brown's Garage and Pastime Theater after the fire. Roy Salisbury Collection. | ||
| Classic Bangor Motor Co. Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Classic Bangor Motor Co. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Bangor Motor Co. with classic cars lined up in front. | ||
| Gordon and White Garage Playing Cards Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon and White Garage Playing Cards Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The Southwest Harbor Motor Company Garage was originally owned and operated by Sim Mayo. The chauffeur standing at left in the photograph is representative of the "summer business." There is a round metal "MICHELIN" sign to the left of the door. The car on the left (with chauffeur) is a Pierce-Arrow, a 1915 Model 38, 5-passenger touring car. The second car from the left is a 1916 Overland Model 83B 5 or 7-passenger touring car. The third car from left is a 1916 Hudson Super Six 5 or 7-passenger phaeton. The last car on the right is probably a 1912 Cadillac 7-passenger touring car. In 1940 the phone number for Southwest Motor Company was 51-2. [show more] | |
| A Family Affair Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  A Family Affair Northeast Harbor Library Description: The Haynes family of Northeast Harbor keep vintage cars running. Photographs of Richard Haynes, son Dana, and grandsons Dan and Jeff working on vehicles. Published in Down East Magazine, June 1990. | ||
| Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The tower at the top left of the photograph housed the fire whistle behind Gilley Plumbing building on the left. The fire truck was kept in a small building beside the whistle in a corner of the present [2010] Pemetic School playground. This was previously site of Moore's Garage Co. and is the site of the Post Office building today [2017]. "The Gilley and Salisbury plumbing shop was at first built by George H. Gilley on his lot near his home on the Main Road and was used there as a plumber's shop for some years. Then it was moved to its present situation and in 1929 it was moved to the rear of the lot and the show rooms and upstairs living apartment were built. Mr. Gilley's grandson, Wendell H. Gilley, now carries on the business." The automobiles Left to Right: 1938 Oldsmobile 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan 1938 Chevrolet 4 Door Sedan [show more] | |
| Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Simeon Holden Mayo Leaving his Garage at the Wheel of his 1907 Maxwell Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Simeon Holden Mayo Leaving his Garage at the Wheel of his 1907 Maxwell Automobile Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Moore's Garage Co. - After the Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Southwest Harbor Motor Co. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The tow truck on the left is an early 30's fabric-topped roadster whose tail light, with its red light and tiny stop sign, had been removed and placed higher on the back of the truck for better visibility. Signs visible on the building are for Good Year tires and batteries and Tydol gasoline. | |
| Advertisements from the Directory and Hand Book - 1931 - Southwest Harbor, Manset and Tremont Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Advertisements from the Directory and Hand Book - 1931 - Southwest Harbor, Manset and Tremont Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The page shows advertisements for: The Gordon and White Garage Somes House | |
| Gordon & White Garage with Five Taxis and their Drivers Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon & White Garage with Five Taxis and their Drivers Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The taxis are from Left to Right: 1941 Ford 1941 Ford 1941 Ford 1937 Buick Sedan 1937 Packard Formal Sedan |
| Gordon & White Garage with Automobiles Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon & White Garage with Automobiles Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Vehicles from Left to Right: c. 1946 Ford Pickup Truck - in front of garage 1950 Ford - on side of garage 1951 Ford 1953 Ford c. 1953 Ford Truck 1941 Chevrolet |
| Gordon & White Garage with Automobiles and Trucks Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gordon & White Garage with Automobiles and Trucks Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: The vehicles from Left to Right: c. 1949 International Harvester Truck - far left at back facing camera c. 1950 Mercury facing camera (in front of unknown car) Gordon & White's 1950 Ford Tow Truck Unknown wood stake truck c. 1947 Ford c. 1946 Dodge 1949 Ford 1950 Chevrolet - company vehicle for a Bar Harbor Chevrolet dealer c. 1939 Pontiac c. 1931 Ford - spoke wheel just visible at right front of photograph |