1937: Jack Branz Used Cars, 315 Forest Avenue at the corner of Forest and Baxter Boulevard.
1937: Wilson's store at 478 Congress Street at the corner of Congress and Center streets.
1937: Smith and Abbott Co., wholesale and distributors of plumbing supplies, 68 - 78 Union Street . The Portland Harbor Hotel is on this site now.
1937: Universal Laundry building at 307 Cumberland Ave at Elm Street. The building still exists, but the entryway and windows have been altered.
1937: The Art Deco facade of Loring, Short, and Harmon at 474 Congress.
1937: Dyer Knight Company at the southwest corner of Cumberland Avenue and Preble Street. The building currently houses the Preble Street teen shelter.
1938: Porteous Department Store at 522-528 Congress Street.
1938: Motley Block, 511 Congress Street. The building was torn down and Ocean Gate Plaza stands in its place now.
1938: Talbot, Brooks, and Ayer building, 269 - 273 Commercial Street.
1938: J.E. Palmer and Lamey-Wellahan on Congress Street.
1938: Federal Furniture, 255 Middle Street. The Nickelodeon Cinema and Temple Street garage are on this site.
1938: This building on the southeast corner of Exchange and Middle streets still stands but with a diminished tower and roof line. The building in the left foreground is the post office which was built after the fire and torn down 100 years later in 1965.
1938: Leavitt & Parris in snow on Commercial Wharf around 230 Commercial Street. The buildings are no longer there.
1938: Portland Bargain Store, southwest corner of Congress and Center Streets.
1939: The Civic Theatre at 477 Congress Street, the building now known as the 'Time and Temperature Building.'
1939: If you had strolled by the Portland Observatory in 1939, the building would have been obscured by scaffolding during a Works Progress Administration renovation of the structure. The building on the west side of the building has been torn down.
1939: Loring, Short, and Harmon 474 Congress Street, now numbered 50 Monument Square.
1939: Underwood Elliot Fisher typewriter store at 195 Federal Street where the Temple Street Garage now stands.
1940: Puritan Tea Room at 566 Congress Street.
1940: Congress Street and Forest Avenue looking north. Congress Square Hotel, 579 Congress Street, is at left. The two adjoining buildings down the hill are still standing. Next to them is the Jackson School which was sold to the Eastland Hotel in 1972. There is a parking lot in that spot today. The YMCA is in the distant background right.
1941: Edwards and Walker, 5 Monument Square (eastern portion of Monument Square where the 1 Monument Square office building stands now).
1941: F.O. Bailey at the corner of Free and South streets. The civic center is on this spot and South Street no longer goes through to Free.
1941: Frank M. Brown hardware and paint store at 12-16 Free Street.
1941: Burbank &; Douglass, 242 Middle Street, at Cross Street. The parking lot of One Portland Square is on this site now.
1941: Falmouth Hotel, 212 Middle Street at the northeast corner of Middle and Temple streets. The hotel was closed and the property transferred to the City of Portland in 1963.
1942: Globe Laundry, 26-38 Temple Street where the Temple Street garage and Nickelodeon Theater are. An earlier ad for the business stated: Globe Laundry 26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 Temple Street, Portland, Maine Largest and Best Equipped Laundry in the State We Make a Specialty of PARCEL POST BUSINESS
1942: Murdock's Jewelers and Opticians, 537 Congress Street (J.B. Brown Block).
1942: T.F. Foss Furniture, 49 Dartmouth Street.
1942: Charles McLaughlin wholesale groceries, 8 - 10 Dana Street. The building now houses Vignola Cinque Terre.
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