Penobscot Bay Pilot’s wayback machine

Throwback Thursday

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 12:45pm

Ah summertime. . .we can only dream. Does this particular scene look familiar to you?

Last week’s Throwback Thursday photo was an easy one; of course it was Camden. Many guessed correctly that the ice wagon was passing by what is now known as Cappy’s Chaowder House and Restaurant, but what we never found out was what the building used to be in 1912 when the photo was taken.

Reader Clifford Blastow wins with this interesting comment: “The ice wagon looks to be coming out of Bayview street in front of Cappy's in Camden. Had to be after 1870 because you can see the old Civil War monument that used to be at the top of the hill. They had power and telephone by then and I see an automobile up the road on the right. I would date it at 1910-1915.

This week’s photo courtesy of the Facbeook page You Knew You Grew Up in Camden-Rockport Maine when...


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