Keywords: For Teenagers Only
Item 55530
'For Teenagers Only,' Portland, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 52861
"Dave Astor Show," Portland, April 1962
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
"Twenty Nationalities, But All Americans"
Concern about immigrants and their loyalty in the post World War I era led to programs to "Americanize" them -- an effort to help them learn English and otherwise adjust to life in the United States. Clara Soule ran one such program for the Portland Public Schools, hoping it would help the immigrants be accepted.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Ezekiel Hopkins house and grounds, Hampden, 1840
"… and mechanical were combined." When he was a teenager, Martin worked for Hopkins on his farm and in his store."
Site Page
Music in Maine - Music and Television
"Beginning as For Teenagers Only on WGAN-13, the show moved to WCSH-6 in 1963, called The Dave Astor Show."
Story
The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
Story
Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.
