Flashback
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PublishedApril 4, 2016
Flashback: Portland’s Central Fire Station, 1953
In this 1953 Press Herald news photograph, firefighters pose with Engine 8 in front of the Central Fire Station on Congress Street in downtown Portland. The same building still serves as the city’s fire department headquarters, as seen below in a January 2013 photograph.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2016
Flashback: Amato’s on India Street, 1955
This photograph, which originally appeared on the cover of the Jan. 17, 1955, Portland Evening Express, shows the old Amato’s at the corner of India and Newbury Streets in Portland. The accompanying caption explained that “there’s more sand than snow on Portland’s streets” after a nearly snowless January that year. A 2016 view of the […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2016
Flashback: Century Tire in Bayside
A Portland Press Herald photograph from May 1960 shows the corner of Kennebec and Hanover streets in Bayside.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2016
Flashback: Gorham’s ski area, 1970
A Portland Evening Express photograph offers a view of the long-lost slope.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2016
Flashback: Luncheonettes in York Beach, 1951 and Bailey Island, 2015
Two scenes from lunch counters from the Press Herald's photographic archives.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2016
Flashback: 20th Century Super Market, 1954
A 1954 Press Herald photograph shows two stores that once stood near the corner of Washington and Ocean Avenues in Portland's East Deering neighborhood.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2016
Flashback: Mainers and their snowmen
Mainers have been enjoying the company of their frozen winter guests for over 60 years.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2016
Flashback: Exchange Street in the snow, 1977
A Portland Evening Express photograph from December 1977 shows pedestrians walking up Exchange Street toward Middle Street after a snowstorm.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2016
Flashback: The corner of Neal and Spring in the West End, 1950
A 1950 Press Herald photograph shows two of the city's old street signs in the West End.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2016
Flashback: Portland’s Lincoln Park, in 1915 and 2015
Two Press Herald photographs, shot a century apart, illustrate some of the changes that have come to Congress Street in downtown Portland.
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