1971: Picketers protest outside the Press Herald building on Congress Street. The protest and the sign "Jean Gannett Hawley is a Male Chauvinist" concerned the newspapers' running classified advertisements organized by sex: “Help Wanted – Male” and “Help Wanted – Female.” Jean Gannett Hawley was publisher and chairman of the board of Guy Gannett communications.
1970: Five women model pant suits in the office. Wearing pants of any kind in an office had been frowned on prior to the 1970s. Pantsuits were banned on the Senate floor until 1993.
1972: Children run down the sidewalk near 39 Exchange St.
1972: Steel beams are erected as I-295 is built near Forest Avenue. The Johnson Supply building, 310 Forest Ave. can be seen in the background. The building is now USM's Glickman Family Library.
1972: Daniel Cobb, photographed on his 105th birthday in South Portland. Mr. Cobb was born August 17, 1867. He graduated from Cape Elizabeth High School in 1884 and was a South Portland postmaster and farmer. He owned a florist shop on Preble Street. According to the South Portland Historical Society, he was the last living member of the Willard Engine and Ladder Company and died at 106.
1972: A Northeast Airlines DC-9 jet, with new Delta Airlines markings. Originally the Boston-Maine Airways, the airline was renamed Northeast in 1940 and merged with Delta in 1972.
1972: Children picketing at Portland City Hall, asking (more like demanding) for a Bayside neighborhood center.
1972: View of the Holiday Inn under construction from Portland Harbor. West Commercial Street in foreground. York Street at center, including Table Talk Pies, 85 York Street.
1971: Children cooling off in the Pullen Fountain on Federal Street on a hot day at the end of July.
1972: Portland Jetport ticket lobby with the new Delta Airlines ticket counter.
1972: Highway I-295 construction in Libbytown showing the intersection of Park Avenue and St. John Street. In the background is Dougherty Field and, at the left, West School which was closed in 2018 and torn down.
1972: On July 22, a Norwegian tanker, Tamano, chartered by Texaco, grazed Soldiers Ledge in Hussey Sound. The accident, which was unnoticed, tore a 20-foot by 8-foot hole near a tank holding 12,000 gallons of oil. When the ship anchored off of Long Island, oil was seen leaking. A boom was placed around the ship but that failed to contain the spread of the oil.The tanker was carrying 550,000 barrels of No. 6 Fuel Oil, 2,380 barrels of which spilled into Casco Bay.
1972: Sen. Edmund S. Muskie is greeted by a crowd at the Portland Jetport as he returns from Democratic Convention. In 1982, the Portland City Council renamed the airport in honor of Muskie. A few weeks later, Muskie asked and the council agreed, to revert to the name Portland International Jetport, after many objections were raised.
1970: Children leave McLellan School, 20 Carroll Street on the last day of school. The school was built in 1886 and converted into condominiums in 1982. It was named after Capt. Jacob McLellan, mayor of Portland during the Civil War.
1972: Aerial view of Spring Street construction projects and vicinity from south. Holiday Inn at center left. High Street at left, Brown Street at right, Cumberland Avenue at top, Pleasant Street at bottom. Calderwood Bakery, 61 Pleasant Street at bottom center.
1971: A young woman sits near a fountain in the newly-opened Maine Mall in August.
1972: Brackett Street, between Pine and Spring streets. Turner's Tailors, 183 Brackett Street at left, Bartlett Radio, 181 Brackett Street, at center, The construction of Reiche School was underway. Reiche replaced Butler School on Pine Street which was remodeled as an apartment building.
1972: Aerial view of Munjoy Hill Reservoir, from north, filled in. Jack Junior High School in foreground, Washington Avenue at right.
1972: Margaret Chase Smith, photographed in June. She was 74 and had served in the U.S. Senate since 1949. Smith would be defeated in November of 1972 by Democrat Bill Hathaway.
1972: F.W. Woolworth store, 540 Congress St. during its final store closing sale. The Maine Mall had opened in August 1971.
1972: Edmund S. Muskie and his son Steve at the Portland Jetport, returning from Democratic Convention.
1972: Million Dollar Bridge draw span looking from the harbor up the Fore River.
1971: Women with feminist signs in front of the First Parish Church.
1971: Miss Maine, Allyn Warner of Falmouth, receives the keys to a new car at Couri Motors, 525-531 Forest Avenue. The car has a Miss Maine sticker on its driver-side door. Warner was 4th runner up in the MIss America pageant of 1972.
1971: Intersection of Oxford and Stone streets looking west in Bayside. A parking garage blocks this view today.
1972: Grand Trunk Grain Elevator seen from the harbor. The grain elevator stood at the corner of India and Commercial streets and was torn down in 1974.
1970: A crowd gathers at the International Marine Terminal as the new Prince of Fundy prepares to take passengers to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
1970: Row houses including 109 Pearl St, slated for destruction The houses were on the north side of Pearl, just west of Congress Street where there is a large parking lot today.
1970: Strawberry picking in early July.
1970: Aerial view of I-95 highway bridge construction (Piscataqua River Bridge) from north. Kittery in foreground, Portsmouth area in background. On June 24, 1970, the day this photo was taken, staging on the Kittery side of the river gave way and four construction workers fell to their deaths. Six workers were able to cling to what remained of the staging and were rescued by firemen. Killed were Cianbro workers Noel A. Dube, 22 years old; Michael A. Wood, 23; George B. Dinsmore, 29; and Karl Koski, 20. The bridge opened to traffic in November, 1972.
1970: Passengers enjoy the deck chairs as the M/S Prince of Fundy begins its first voyage from Portland to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The Prince of Fundy was retired from the route in 1976.
1971: Newly-opened Maine Mall interior in August.
1970: The inaugural voyage of the Prince of Fundy ferry.
1972: Happy children run out of Munjoy Hill's Adams School on the last day of the school year. Named after Marada Adams, principal in the late 19th century of Shailer School on North Street, Adams was built 1958, closed 2006 and demolished.
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