An aerial photograph from 1960 Portland Evening Express shows South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood before its industrial development.

In this Press Herald photograph from Aug. 8, 1948, contestants dash into the water near Jones Landing on Peaks Island for the annual Peaks to Portland race. Below, swimmers prepare for the starting line during the 2014 Peaks to Portland race.

Two Press Herald photographs taken 35 years apart show Portlanders enjoying the park while waiting for the city’s fireworks.

A September 1958 Press Herald photograph shows the entrance to the Maine State Pier near Commercial Street at a time when the pier was still the region’s main cargo-shipping terminal.

An aerial view of the East Deering shorefront at the beginning of construction for Interstate 295.

Before the freeway sliced through Bayside, Back Cove extended nearly all the way to Deering Oaks park.

A 1945 attempt to rename the junction of Center, Fore and York Streets at the edge of Portland’s Old Port apparently didn’t stick.

A 1988 photo of fiddler Greg Boardman from the Portland Evening Express.

A Portland Evening Express photograph from July 1960 shows Cumberland Avenue before urban renewal.