Maine Memory Network

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"In 1925, the Music Hall changed ownership to a pool hall, and the location changed hands from pool halls, bars, and other small businesses, until…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Seaside Hall

"… window will be in.” And it was." The hall had a pool table, foosball, and other games for the kids."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… City Park in 1959, and the addition of a swimming pool to the YMCA building at Summer and Front Streets by acquiring part of the vacant Uptown…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"There was also a pool hall in town where he would go after school to play pool or the pinball machine. There was a drug store called Rexol."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"… for athletic events such as swimming in the pool or playing basketball in the gym. There were also a variety of rooms for entertainment and…"

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"The hall also held a pool hall, family theater, and a gymnasium in which they had basketball games and boxing matches."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VII. Flow and ebb: the effects of industrial peak & global upheaval (1900-1955) - Page 1 of 3

"It first opened in the Freeman House on Pool Street in 1906. A large, modern brick building was constructed on Elm Street and opened in 1911."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 1 of 2

"… quarries in Biddeford, located out along the Pool Road. In 1866 they furnished the granite for the rebuilding of the breakwaters at the mouth of…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"1930Guilford Historical Society HOLBROOK'S POOL HALL This is a view of Water Street, looking west, around 1930."

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

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

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… 1700s lobsters were easily harvested from tidal pools along the shoreline. So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… is meant to keep the females in the breeding pool and is voluntary on the part of conservation-minded lobstermen."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"Dark Harbor Pool, Islesboro, ca. 1940Islesboro Historical Society Fortunately, for all of us, the special essence of Islesboro that brought the…"

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

"… owned a recreation hall with a bowling alley, pool tables and a snack bar. The first dry cleaner in town was owned by Mr. Zeltin."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… was playing regularly by the Bar Harbor Club pool, and traveling theater companies were visiting the village."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… would have a movie theater and a town swimming pool and all that good stuff for the kids to go to and play with."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements

"Only six houses were south of the Dark Harbor pool. A mainland developer took advantage of this sparcity and from the mid-1880s to the early 1890s…"

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… Hall was built and operated a bowling alley and pool tables. River Street Flood, Guilford, 1923Guilford Historical Society The '20’s also…"

Guilford, Maine - Guilford Schools

"… lasted only a short time as town residents pooled their resources together to construct a school building in Guilford Center."

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."

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

"… court, 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…"