Saturday, January 31, 2009

Portland, circa 1940

This video is pretty cool.

2 comments:

Corey Templeton said...

Great find, those were the days! I would have loved to explore Portland during this period.

C Neal said...

Yes, it is pretty cool. Look at the old Franklin Street, before they tore down the neighborhood, and the old Baxter Boulevard, which travels through marshlands. Good find.

I dug around and found some historic USGS maps of the city, too:

http://vigorousnorth.blogspot.com/2009/02/portland-maine-in-historic-usgs.html