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    Collection

    Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection

    Document Type

    Still Image

    Call number of Original

    98702A

    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.

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    Keywords

    Portland, Me., Downtown Portland, Businesses, Restaurants

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    In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted.