Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
In the 1920s, Harry and Ethel Bishop purchased this general store that W. Todd Murchie built on U.S. Route 1 in North Perry. The Bishops lived above the store. The vehicle parked at the far right is quite possibly an Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company vehicle.
Members of the Bishop family operated the store until the mid 1960s. Frances (Morrison) Raye, the Bishops' oldest grandchild, was born in 1928 and recalls Bishop’s Store as a popular establishment and gathering place, featuring a pickle barrel, bulk flour and sugar, and a gasoline pump, and where Harry Bishop conducted business as First Selectman.
Renamed the Chalet under new ownership in the late 1960s, it featured take-out food. It closed in the 1990s and the building was razed when Route 1 in Perry was rebuilt in 2007.
About This Item
- Title: W. T. Murchies Store, North Perry, ca. 1915
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Perry, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.101875
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Buildings--Maine--Perry
- Restaurants--Maine--Perry
- Photographs--Maine
- Postcards--Maine
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- General stores--Maine--Perry
- Stores & shops--Maine--Perry
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