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    Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

    Document Type

    Still Image

    Call number of Original

    PH 05 APR 1995

    Contributing Institution

    Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives

    Location

    Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA

    Creation Date

    4-5-1995

    Format of Original

    35mm color negatives

    Description

    Views of the Good Day Market Natural Food Co-op, 155 Brackett Street. Located in the People's Building (photo at this link), which also housed the Portland West Neighborhood Council (photo at this link), the Good Day Market served as Portland's only cooperatively managed organically-grown food store. The market opened in 1970, in the Mariner's Church Building (370 Fore Street), later moving to 343A Fore Street in 1973. In 1979, the Good Day Market established itself at 155 Brackett Street, after the building (the former Brackett School) had been repurposed in 1978.
    The large "Services & Items 4 Sale" bulletin board in the Market's entrance was a prominent part of the store's role as a community resource.
    The Good Day Market relocated to 59 Middle Street in late-1995, and closed in 1997.

    Top left image: A shopper inside the Good Day Market.
    Bottom left image: Four-year-old Naomi Moser inspecting a red pepper in the Good Day Market produce section.
    Right image: Full exterior view of the Good Day Market, 155 Brackett Street, from southwest.

    Photos published in the Portland Press Herald, on 5 April 1995

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    Keywords

    Portland, Me., West End, Businesses

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