The Towns Slides (1-50)

Taken by John Towns
Donated by Dorothy "Dot" Towns

Background

This collection of 149 color slides was taken by John Towns in the 1940s. Dot Towns donated them to the Great Cranberry Island Library.

When they were shown at the Ladies Aid about twenty years ago, they made a big hit, with lots of remembrances from the audience, but they haven't seen the light of day since then.

Now with the help of a newly-acquired slide scanner, the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society is proud to make these high-quality photos available again.

Slides 1-50
Slides 51-100
Slides 101-149

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John & Dot Towns

courtesy of Ada Rice

1. Beal and Bunker barge, an LCI from World War II	Bass Harbor Light	Sailboat race, Northeast Harbor	Cranberry Harbor pano	The Town Dock, early 1940s pano	Lew Stanley's boatyard, currently Bob LaHotan's home pano
7. Lew Stanley's boatyard	Boatyard seen from Winslow Bunker's (now Sullivan) pano	Another view of the same boatyard pano	Gulls and Mountains from The Pool	Florence Towns (mother of John Towns) on the Fish Point Path closeup	Elisha Bunker's house, now Rob St. Germain's
13. Elisha Bunker at his store	Elisha Bunker's store, now part of Chalene Allen's house	Towns house before color change...	...and after color change	"Big Mo" (Battleship Missouri) at Bar Harbor around 1947 pano	Sargent Drive, with Herb Towns' Packard
19. Southwest Harbor cannery	Road split at the entrance to Mt. Desert	Towns guest on rock at Fish Point (GCI) next to Cranberry Club dock pano	Trudy Bancroft's German dog, who answered to German commands	Hamor Teahouse, now Murch's	(l. to r.): Paul Carver, George Porter from MA, "Pink" Stanley closeups: Paul George & Pink
25. "Pink" and Eliza Stanley - lived in Louise Millar's home	(l. to r.): Mrs. Bulger (Pauline Carver's mother), Paul Carver (back), Charlotte Carver Harlan, Pauline Carver	View of Acadia from original location of Whale's Rib Gift Shop, near Cranberry Cove Restaurant, now Wini Smart's home	Mountains, with some sort of fishing barges pano	Sailboat race	Islesford dock with Bobcat owned by Wilfred Bunker
31. Islesford	Islesford	Islesford with museum pano	Charles & Ada Rice haying	Road to Town Dock pano	Bacon house, now Newell's
37. (l. to r.): Goldthwait (now Rome), former store, Brooks' house	Inside the Church	Inside the Church	Town Dock 1939, with Nova Scotia boat used by Alton Bunker to carry mail pano	Fair Day around 1940 pano	Williams house, now Sonja Colby. Note tall radio antenna tower on roof
43. Williams house, now Sonja Colby	Dr. Liebow's house pano	George Savage house under construction	George Savage house under construction	Haydock house	Haydock house
49. Polly Storey log cabin with (l. to r.): John Towns, Herb Towns, Towns guest closeup	Wadsworth house under construction				Slides 1-50 Slides 51-100 Slides 101-149

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The Towns Slides (1-50)

Taken by John TownsDonated by Dorothy "Dot" Towns

Background

Taken by John Towns
Donated by Dorothy "Dot" Towns