1958 Girl Scout cookies billboard.
1954: An unidentified Girl Scout shows her wares. In her right hand is a box of perennial favorite Thin Mint cookies.
1956: Ingrid Ann Thompson, left, and Deborah Jane Wilcox, both of South Portland, give each other a taste of the two kinds of cookies local Girl Scouts sell. The Girl Scout Council of Greater Portland hopes to sell 50,000 boxes this year. The girls, both eight, are members of Brownie Troop 127. Proceeds from the sale will go toward a new infirmary at Camp Cedar Cove in Litchfield and a play field and new camping equipment for the day camp in Scarborough.
1960: Brownies Laurie Reiman (left) and Jean Breton of the Yarmouth Girl Scout Neighborhood peer over the heaps of sweets to be sold by members of their troop during the annual cookie drive. More than 185 Yarmouth Brownies and Girl Scouts will join in the fundraising project sponsored by the Greater Portland Girl Scout Council.
1960 Dominic Profenno, Portland Department of Public Works employee, entered into the spirit of Girl Scout Week Monday afternoon when two Brownie Scouts caught him as he finished work on Congress Street. Ellen Romanoff, 9, hands Profenno a box of cookies while Kathy Swim, 9, (left) waits her chance to sell him another variety of Girl Scout cookies.The super-salegirls, both members of Troop 23, sold six more boxes of cookies while staff photographer Johnson was taking their names.
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