Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
By the early 1900s, Five Islands was a vacation destination, with summer people and locals enough to support two ice cream establishments on the hill above the wharf. A windmill stood behind L. H. Rowe’s Ice Cream Parlor. In the early 1900s, this establishment was also named Gibson’s Ice Cream Parlor.
The adjacent building catered to one’s sweet tooth too, selling ice cream and fresh pastry as well as milk and cream, undoubtedly from a local farm. “Island Spa,” a term used at other Maine summer resorts, perhaps referred to a place that sold goods considered summer indulgences. Some of the store’s “dry fancy goods” were souvenirs purchased by summer visitors. A popular Maine item in souvenir shops was Kennebec Spruce Gum, processed in Five Islands for over 60 years by Charles MacMahan, Frank MacMahan, and A. F. Carr.
Arthur Helson ran the Five Islands Ice Cream Parlor in the 1940s and Fred Fox in the 1950s.
About This Item
- Title: Ice cream parlors at Five Islands, Georgetown, ca. 1915
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Five Islands, Georgetown, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.113008
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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