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Lincoln, Maine - Carney's Store

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

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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…"

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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…"

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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…"

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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…"

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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."

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

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

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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…"

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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."

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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…"