Keywords: Socony filling station
Item 29308
Socony Garage, Water Street, Hallowell, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Joan Hague through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 29310
Lord Auto & Electric Company business card, Hallowell, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Joan Mosher Hague through Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1930 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper
Item 76831
335 St. John Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Standard Oil Company Use: Filling station
Item 35210
569-575 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Eoline M Wilson Use: Filling Station & Store
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
