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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
93768C-1
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
9-23-1959
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
Full exterior of Somerset Apartments building, 633 Congress Street, from southeast. The Pagoda restaurant, at street level. Rear of building at 12 Deering Street, in left background.
The popular Chinese restaurant, owned by the Henry Wong family, was in business at this location from 1940-1985. In 1986, the Pagoda re-opened at 5 Forest Avenue, and was in business until closing in 1992.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 September 1959
[See Additional Files links- below:
Complete Pagoda menu from 1982,
and
An exterior view of The Pagoda entrance in January 1985.]
Recommended Citation
"Somerset Building and The Pagoda Restaurant, 1959" (1959). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 466.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/466
Menu from The Pagoda, 1982
EX 12 JAN 1985_WTM.JPG (3194 kB)
Pagoda entrance, 12 January 1985
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, West End, Businesses, Congress Street, Asian community, Menu
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