Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store

"Around 1934, Peter sold his barber chair after finding that the clothing business was becoming more successful."

Lincoln, Maine - Solomon's Store

"At this time, it was a shoe store and barber shop. When Mr. Pinkham died in 1916, John Grindell bought stock in the store and made it into a clothing…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Barber Shop, Islesboro, ca. 1900Islesboro Historical Society HEWES POINT Hewes Point was named for Paoli Hewes, who established a salt works on the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"… copy noted that the early businesses included a barber shop and The Lincoln National Bank. With the Sagadahock House getting all the attention, the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 2 of 3

"There were two pharmacies, two barbers, two clothiers, four tailors, six dressmakers and one shoemaker."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Braden Theater

"… “There Will Be Blood”, “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, and “The Spiderwick Chronicles”. Sources: Clark, Janice."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"A barber shop shared one building with the Farr and Frost Drugstore. The neighboring building housed the Kennebec Fruit Company, and F. and E."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"There was a barber shop operated by Lyman Haskell and a fish market operated by Dan McEachern and Nick Stanley. The photography shop of Isaac T."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Eureka Hall, Stockholm

"Some of the things were: It was a general store, barber shop, pool table, a jail cell that was really just a holding cell, bowling alley, a movie…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… shops, meeting spaces, dry goods stores and a barber shop. The Tuscan Opera House was built in 1891."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture

"… court, bowling alley, pool hall, barber shop, variety store, town jail, and town office."

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Stockholm, Maine

"… jail, town office, general store, pool hall, barber shop, and a bowling alley. Later, the top floor of Eureka was taken off and one of the ends was…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Some of the stores had barber shops or pool parlors in them. Today there is still a sawmill in town."

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"… 1960, setting up offices in the old John Trenholm barber shop on the left side of Washington Street, Highway 189, close in proximity to the future…"