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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
9-23-1961
Format of Original
4 x 5" gelatin silver negative
Description
General interior view of Continental Lounge dining room, Graymore Hotel, 21 Preble Street. Bar at left, small tables at center, and booths at right. Walls decorated with painted murals. The Graymore was renamed The Plaza Hotel, in 1966.
The Continental Lounge was later known as the Penguin Lounge (ca. 1970), and renamed The Downtown Lounge, in December 1979. As the Downtown Lounge, the venue had a brief life as a punk rock venue until a major building fire on 25 October 1981. The hotel building was demolished in October 1985.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 23 September 1961.
Exterior views of the hotel building in 1983 at this link.
Recommended Citation
"Continental Lounge, 1961" (1961). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 48.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/48
Keywords
Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Businesses, Restaurants
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