Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rustication

"… was playing regularly by the Bar Harbor Club pool, and traveling theater companies were visiting the village."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… Rocking on the seaside ledges? Investigate tidal pools or coastal caverns? Boat the bays or lakes (powered by oar, paddle, sail or steam)? Brave an…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 1 of 3

"… owned a recreation hall with a bowling alley, pool tables and a snack bar. The first dry cleaner in town was owned by Mr. Zeltin."

Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… would have a movie theater and a town swimming pool and all that good stuff for the kids to go to and play with."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"… of land create a large, naturally protected pool. Saco River from old White's Wharf, Biddeford, 2010."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Mexico - Page 3 of 3

"… forms of recreation were found: dance halls, pool rooms, boxing matches, horse racing, a movie theater."

Lincoln, Maine - Masonic Hall

"The hall also held a pool hall, family theater, and a gymnasium in which they had basketball games and boxing matches."

Surry by the Bay - Surry Today

"… Preserve, this panoramic vista includes tidal pools, cobble beach and ledges shadowed by fields and a mixed wood forest."

Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln Theater

"… concession stand, an ice cream parlor, and a pool room. The new movie theater had three owners to start with; Alfred Clay, Will Brown, and Al…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… 1700s lobsters were easily harvested from tidal pools along the shoreline. So plentiful were lobsters that Native-Americans used them for crop…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"… is meant to keep the females in the breeding pool and is voluntary on the part of conservation-minded lobstermen."

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"Some of the stores had barber shops or pool parlors in them. Today there is still a sawmill in town."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts

"Dark Harbor Pool, Islesboro, ca. 1940Islesboro Historical Society Fortunately, for all of us, the special essence of Islesboro that brought the…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Abbott School

"It now consists of a baseball field, a wading pool, tennis courts, a field for Little League games, a skating rink in the winter, and a new…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… on display in their own specially built pools. Early silent movies, including popular Buster Brown comedy shorts, and cartoons were shown on…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… City Park in 1959, and the addition of a swimming pool to the YMCA building at Summer and Front Streets by acquiring part of the vacant Uptown…"