Keywords: Snacks
Item 12222
Snack bar, Merrymeeting Park, Brunswick, ca. 1898
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1898 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, Print
Item 103627
Kids and hot dogs, Portland, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay
"… serving tea, lunch, dinner and after theater snacks. During those years they continued with Broadway hits such as Wuthering Heights, Arsenic and…"
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"… hall with a bowling alley, pool tables and a snack bar. The first dry cleaner in town was owned by Mr. Zeltin."
Story
"Mama sings 'get your hands up'": Maria's Diary June 2020
by Maria
Maria, 7 years old, records impressions of staying with her grandparents in Somesville in June 2020.
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
