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Description
Opened in 1919 on West Main Street in the heart of Monroe Village, Littlefield’s Garage was long a familiar landmark for folks driving from Winterport to Brooks through Monroe. George Edward Littlefield, who was known to his neighbors and customers simply as "Eddie," owned and operated the garage.
Born in Winterport in 1889, Eddie recalled that when he first opened his garage business in Monroe, there weren’t more than two or three Fords in town, and he had to repair bicycles and rubber-tired wagons to make ends meet. By the 1920s, however, the garage was a fully equipped Shell service station.
For over three decades the garage stood directly across the street from the church and next door to the Monroe Village elementary school, visible on the right. A spectacular fire early on Christmas morning in 1953 completely destroyed both the garage and the school. Eddie Littlefield’s longtime mechanic, Wilmer Weaver, to whom Eddie deeded the property, soon constructed.a new garage.on the site.
About This Item
- Title: Littlefield's Garage, Monroe, ca. 1920
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1920
- Subject Date: circa 1920
- Location: Monroe, Waldo County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.24.114693
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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