In this 1953 Press Herald news photograph, firefighters pose with Engine 8 in front of the Central Fire Station on Congress Street in downtown Portland. The same building still serves as the city’s fire department headquarters, as seen below in a January 2013 photograph.

This photograph, which originally appeared on the cover of the Jan. 17, 1955, Portland Evening Express, shows the old Amato’s at the corner of India and Newbury Streets in Portland. The accompanying caption explained that “there’s more sand than snow on Portland’s streets” after a nearly snowless January that year. A 2016 view of the […]

A Portland Press Herald photograph from May 1960 shows the corner of Kennebec and Hanover streets in Bayside.