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Congress Square Plaza under construction around 1982. Portland Press Herald archives
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Congress Square Park under construction around 1982. Portland Press Herald archives
You are correct TC in addition to eventual wear due to numerous Maine winters.I'm assuming they were removed to deter the presence of the homeless and general miscreant populations.
That is the coolest photo of Portland I’ve seen (rivals the painting with ship bowsprits hanging over Commercial Street)… Love the streetcars!!View attachment 64780
Prior to the 12 story Chapman Building (Time & Temperature) being built in 1924.
Just think with that coke sign lit up at night!!!, boy the Portland Business College was a nice building..., you can see where I M Pei used the arches from that building and incorporated it into the Museum,View attachment 64791
Sticking with the billboard theme!
Does anyone in Portland smoke Kents anymore? or can you still but them? I think my grandmother smoked them. if I saw that billboard, I would rush out and get them!!! LOL see how they had to put maine in lower case to make sure you are not in Oregon.View attachment 64790
A clever billboard just for you PWMFlyer from around 1981 seeing that the PMA's Payson building is under construction on the right.
I don't remember that version of the Coke sign, but I remember when it had a red-circle "Drink Coca-Cola" that did all kinds of crazy neon tricks at night. One of the first "city" things that blew my young mind!Advertising must be still effective after 60 years because today at lunch I used Hellmann's mayonnaise, had a coke and watched WCSH news at noon! No Sealtest Pineapple Lemon ice cream was available in the freezer.![]()
I don't remember WGAN being there either but I recall Pearle Vision Center occupying that location for many years. Cannot believe that beautiful building has remained vacant for so many years due to the stubbornness of the miserable old eccentric that still owns it.the big glass storefront in that building was actually the Channel 13 studios