A photo from the Portland Press Herald’s archives shows two small buildings that occupied a corner lot behind Merrill Auditorium. They were sold to the city for $5,000 and demolished.
Christian MilNeil
Christian MilNeil is a data reporter and online content producer. A graduate of Bonny Eagle High School in Standish, he studied math and economics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and joined the Press Herald in 2012. He’s especially interested in design, city politics, cartography and climate change. If you’re in Portland, you might see him bicycling to work, or just for fun.
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Flashback: New Years of old
New Year’s celebrations from 1939, 1950, and 1988, from the Portland Public Library’s archival collection of historic Portland Press Herald photographic negatives.
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Flashback: Dogsledding down Forest Avenue in 1947
A photo from the Portland Press Herald’s archives shows Perry Greene and his dogsledding team racing down Forest Avenue near the University of Southern Maine campus.
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Flashback: Monument Square under renovation in 1973
A photo from the Portland Press Herald’s archives shows the construction project that closed Monument Square to cars in 1973.
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Flashback: an aerial view of Bayside, circa 1960
A detailed bird’s-eye view of the Bayside neighborhood during its industrial heyday, circa 1960.
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Flashback: South Portland’s Legion Square
A photo from the Portland Press Herald’s photograph archives shows children walking to school in South Portland’s Legion Square in the year 1958.
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Map: compare gas prices across Maine, Jan. 2013 through Nov. 2013
Explore how prices have changed over the course of the year, and where you’ll find the highest and lowest gas prices in Maine.
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Flashback: Thanksgiving in the 1950s
Historic Thanksgiving photos from the Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram and Portland Evening Express.
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Flashback: John F. Kennedy’s 1960 visit to Portland
The charismatic candidate attracted crowds of thousands to downtown Portland during a campaign visit in early September 1960.
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Flashback: Maine National Guard parades on Westbrook’s Main Street, 1940
A photo from the Portland Press Herald’s photograph archives shows the Maine National Guard’s Company D, 103rd Infantry marching down Main Street in Westbrook for Memorial Day in 1940.