Maine Memory Network

Lincoln, Maine - Cars, Model T

"Cars and trucks are made differently. Cars and trucks are made more professionally, and they can be very luxurious."

Seashore Trolley Museum

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"There were trolley cars running back and forth to Bangor, and steam-powered vessels departing regularly from the wharf on the Penobscot to Boston."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"Our travel by car, bicycle and foot today is effortless compared to the challenging journeys that European settlers took through ancient North…"

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

"… Main Street in the 20th century Red Cross Car and Trailer, Main Street, Northeast Harbor, 1947Northeast Harbor Library By 1910, Northeast…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"Finally, in 1959 the viaduct was completed and cars could avoid the traffic light at Washington Street."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… acts as the way to cross the Kennebec River by car, foot, or bicycle. In over 200 years at this intersection, time has never stood still, and it…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Throughout the nineteenth century, as the lowest of these areas were filled in and Commercial Street was added to the east of Front Street, the…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 3 of 3

"Another old car that’s not in business today is the Citroen. The Citroen was the first foreign made car to be sold in Aroostook County."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales - Page 1 of 3

"After the move we sold all General Motors cars except Pontiac. I started working as a clean-up boy part time."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Carroll's Auto Sales Buildings

"Skippy Carroll first established it in 1957, on the corner of Jordan and Main Streets (now JP Cash Market)."

Lincoln, Maine - Gateway Motors

"For example, both of them sold and fixed cars. They were both also located on Main Street. There are more differences between the two companies than…"

Lincoln, Maine - W.A. Brown: Jack of all trades

"… to my life today because we have at least four car dealerships in Lincoln and without the first car dealership we might not have a dealer at all."

Stanley Museum

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"The two trolley cars are “combine” cars as they have two compartments, one for passengers and one for baggage and express freight."

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… G-men were on the other side of the street, in cars, and on the sidewalks in case a dispute broke out."

Owls Head Transportation Museum

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Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"… cars, 25 baggage, mail or express cars, 645 box cars, 474 platform cars, and 40 service cars). The company either owned or leased almost 355 miles…"

Seal Cove Auto Museum

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Historic Hallowell - City Marshals

"… the same as in 1939 with the addition of a patrol car. Fitz Morris was a son of William George Fish. He was born on April 17, 1873."

Historic Hallowell - Day 8

"… storm ended leaving behind ice coated streets, cars, power lines, tree limbs and many houses without heat and power."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"My parents register their cars there every year. The last way I can connect with this is, I usually watch the Lincoln Homecoming Parade from the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… See a Red Sox game in Boston—easy, hop in your car, drive to Boston via high-speed roads, see the game, and return home the same day."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"Green was caught in the debris. The locomotive and the cars had crashed and slid to the bank of the river. It took three hours to free Green."