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Collection
Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection
Document Type
Still Image
Call number of Original
138900 and 140269
Contributing Institution
Portland Public Library Special Collections & Archives
Location
Portland, Cumberland, Maine, USA
Creation Date
8-24-1981
Format of Original
35mm gelatin silver negatives
Description
Views of The Market Street Market, 164 Middle Street (at Market Street). The Market was a mini-mall inside a repurposed Old Port building at the southeast corner of Middle Street and Market Street, and was in operation from 1979-1983.
In 1980, the merchants were: The Mole Hole, Portland Plus, Godmother's Pizza, Just Desserts, Orange Press Express, The Bag Lady, Bull Market, Child's Play, Que Huong, Salad Days, Ruby Begonia, East India Company, Rathskellar, Logos Bookstore, The Crepe and Egg, along with a variety of push cart vendors.
Top left image: Exterior view of the building (164 Middle Street) from west. Market Street at right.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 30 July 1982.
Bottom left image: Market Street Market interior view, along the Market Street side of the building.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 24 August 1981.
Right image: High-angle interior view of the lower level of the Market Street Market.
Photo published in the Evening Express, on 24 August 1981.
See Additional Files link, below, for additional views of the Market Street Market.
Left image published in the Evening Express, on 24 June 1980.
(At center, in light shirt, is Logos Bookstore owner John Leddy.)
Right image published in the Evening Express, on 24 August 1981.
Recommended Citation
"The Market Street Market, 1981 and 1982" (1981). Businesses & Buildings - Portland Press Herald Still Film Negatives. 654.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_images_business/654
Market Street Market - 1980 and 1981
Keywords
Portland, Me., Old Port, Businesses, Middle Street, Market Street
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