The automobile is a 1933 or 1934 Rumble Seat Dodge Coupe. The bicycle is a circa 1940 bicycle. The house across the road is the Charles L. Stanley House. The Ocean House is just visible behind the Stanley house.
Description: The automobile is a 1933 or 1934 Rumble Seat Dodge Coupe. The bicycle is a circa 1940 bicycle. The house across the road is the Charles L. Stanley House. The Ocean House is just visible behind the Stanley house.
Photograph taken from 19 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine - The Southwest Motor Company - previously site of Moore's Garage Co. - site of the Post Office building in 2010. The automobile parked on Clark Point Road at the left was a c. 1962 Plymouth. The center car parked on the road was a 1960 Chevrolet. The one parked in the yard by the picket fence was a Dodge. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936.
Description: Photograph taken from 19 Clark Point Road, Southwest Harbor, Maine - The Southwest Motor Company - previously site of Moore's Garage Co. - site of the Post Office building in 2010. The automobile parked on Clark Point Road at the left was a c. 1962 Plymouth. The center car parked on the road was a 1960 Chevrolet. The one parked in the yard by the picket fence was a Dodge. “R.B. Jackson [Richard Benson Jackson (1893-1959)] is having a building erected on his lot lately purchased from P.L. Sargent. A filling station and other conveniences will be established there, and the extensive grounds opened as a parking place. This will be a great convenience to the customers of the Jackson market.” – The Ellsworth American, Wednesday, April 15, 1936. [show more]
"William Lawton built the house on the Clark Point Road opposite Island Cottage in 1910 and Mr. and Mrs. Lawton moved into it on June 23rd of that summer. He also built the building at the shore on the same lot and there he canned fish and clams for some years. After the death of Mrs. Lawton in 1929 the place was sold to Robert G. Crocker of New York who made extensive changes and additions and used it as a summer home. Mrs. Lawton conducted a very successful tea room in her home for some years and it was a popular gathering place for the summer residents from all over the island. The little shop at the shore was taken down in 1936." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 174 - 1938. The tea room existed in 1923 as Mrs. Lawton ran an ad in that year's High School yearbook, the "Pemetic," for her tea room. Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season."
Description: "William Lawton built the house on the Clark Point Road opposite Island Cottage in 1910 and Mr. and Mrs. Lawton moved into it on June 23rd of that summer. He also built the building at the shore on the same lot and there he canned fish and clams for some years. After the death of Mrs. Lawton in 1929 the place was sold to Robert G. Crocker of New York who made extensive changes and additions and used it as a summer home. Mrs. Lawton conducted a very successful tea room in her home for some years and it was a popular gathering place for the summer residents from all over the island. The little shop at the shore was taken down in 1936." - "Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine" by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, p. 174 - 1938. The tea room existed in 1923 as Mrs. Lawton ran an ad in that year's High School yearbook, the "Pemetic," for her tea room. Mrs. Lawton's Tea Room and Gift Shop offered souvenirs, post cards, home made ice cream and "all kinds of cut flowers in season." [show more]