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ALBERT A. GRONBLAD
MASON CONTRACTOR TELEPHONES 4241-4301-J
SEE PAGE 13 Buyers' Guide
CARROLL K. STEELE
"SEE CARROLL"
INSURANCE. PROMPT COURTEOUS RELIABLE
TELEPHONE 1110 120 MAIN STREET GLOUCESTER, MASS.
SEE PAGE 30 Buyers' Guide
BABSON- ELWELL & DAVIS, INC.
Insurance CHANDLER N. DAVIS PHONE 1561 Gloucester Safe Deposit & Trust Co. Gloucester
INSURE WITH JOHNSON INSURANCE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION NOTHING TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL TO INSURE Cloucester National Bank Building.
Established 1900 Telephone 884-W
W. S. PIKE HAROLD N. PIKE
Funeral Service
DEPENDABLE SERVICE EXPERIENCED PERSONNEL
FUNERAL HOME
Office: 61 MIDDLE ST. GLOUCESTER, MASS.
CAPE ANN SAVINGS BANK 1846 - 1952
NATIONAL HOUSE FURNISHING CO
Phone 1904
196-198 MAIN ST.
R 917.445 A
N. ALSTON FAULK, TEL. 3237 HERMAN A. FAULK, TEL. 2005-M
FAULK BROTHERS Mason Contractors
Brick Work Cement
Cinder Blocks
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Foundations Plastering Stone Work Stucco Tile
Water Proofing
Telephone 1771
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GENERAL INDEX
PAGE
Abbreviations
28
Aldermen
17
Alphabetical Section: Gloucester
29
Index to Advertisements
4
Libraries
21, 281, 376, 430
Medical Examiner
20
Military
21
Miscellaneous Information:
Gloucester 9
Rockport
373
Organizations
284, 430
Park Commissioners 18, 375
Parks
24
Points of Interest
23
Police Departments 19, 375
13
Population of Rhode Island
15
Post Offices
.21, 376
Probate Court
20
Public Health Service
21
Railroad Passenger Stations . 287,
431
Registrars of Deeds
20
Registrars of Voters
18, 375
Rockport General Directory
377
Rockport Town Officers
374
School Department 19, 375
Sheriff
20
State Guard
19
Statistical Review
9
District Court
20
Drives
24
Fire Alarm Signal Boxes 18, 375
Fire Departments
18, 375
Gloucester Classified Business Directory. 261 Gloucester General Directory 29
Gloucester Statistics
22
Halls and Public Buildings
277, 429
PAGE
Harbor Masters 18, 375
Holidays
21
Homes
278
Rockport
377
Assessors
18, 374
Association of North American Directory Publishers
X
Board of Health
18, 374
Board of Public Welfare
18, 375
Buildings-Public & Office .266, 426
Buyers' Guide
opp 260
Calendar
6
Cape Ann Light Station 376
Cemeteries
267, 427
Chamber of Commerce
108
Churches
268, 427
City Government
17
City Offices
18
Classified Business Directory : Gloucester Rockport
261
425
Clubs
269, 427
Constables 19, 374
County Commissioners
20
County Officers
20
Courts
20
Custom House
21
District Attorney
20
Straitsmouth Light Station
376
Street Directory:
Gloucester
Rockport
433
293
Superintendents, Inspectors, &c
18
U S Postal Information
25
Water Commissioners
18, 375
Wharves
292
HOW TO USE YOUR CITY DIRECTORY SEE PAGE 27
Population
4
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
PAGE
Andrews L E & Co PAGE
left top corner cards and
44
Andy's Delivery Service
Aptt's Ice & Oil Service Inc
right top corner cards and
38
back cover and 41
Art Jewelry Co Inc .left bottom lines and 33
Babson, Elwell & Davis Inc front cover and 28
Barton A J & Son Inc left top corner cards
Boston & Gloucester Express left top corner cards and 38
Brown William G Company
left bottom lines and
14
19
Burgess Elmer F Inc .. left top lines and
Butman A Carl left top corner cards and 32
Cameron C Floyd
right top corner cards and
45
Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co
left top corner cards and
18
Cape Ann Bottled Gas Co
Cape Ann Fisheries Inc
right top lines and
24
right bottom lines and
17
Cape Ann Glass Co .. right top lines and
24
Cape Ann Manufacturing Co
left top corner cards and
11
Cape Ann Motors Inc right bottom lines and 3
Cape Ann National Bank
back cover, right top lines and
6
Cape Ann Savings Bank
front cover, right top lines and
Carl & Glover
Cher Ami Ice Cream Store
right top lines and 27
Chick George P & Son
left top lines and
46
Colonial Nursing Home right bottom corner cards and 25 Kierman Ray right top lines and 45 Cooney Sail Co Inc left bottom lines and 47 Lane Everett T .left top lines and 44 Lothrop L D Sons 18 Madruga's Taxi .right top lines
Cooper-Bessemer Corp The right bottom lines and 16 Mahony G Everett Inc right top corner cards and 32 Milne's Ice & Oil Service left top lines and 43
Corliss Bros Inc left top corner cards and Cunningham & Kerr .. left top lines and Cunningham Paint Co Inc
44
right top corner cards and
Curtis Russell M left top corner cards and Davis Clarence right top corner cards and 12 Davis Frank E Fish Co 16
Davis Taxi Service ... . back cover and
B
Day John W .. right top lines and 13
Dodge C Furniture Co 24
Fabet Corporation .left top lines and 17 Faulk Bros ...... left bottom lines and Favazza Salvatore J . back cover,
A
31 4 left and right top corner cards and Fernwood Garage .. left bottom lines and Francis William M right bottom corner cards and 38
Frost D O Co .... right bottom lines and G M I Laundry right top corner cards and 33
10
Gloucester Building Supply Co Inc
36
Gloucester Coal & Lumber Co
Gloucester Co-operative Bank
36
back cover, right top lines and 8 Gloucester Daily Times and Cape Ann Advertiser . . ... . left top lines and 39 Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester 8 Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co ..
insert at Rockport Section
Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co Ltd left top lines and 18
Granite Savings Bank
left top lines and
9
Gray Charles J & Sons Inc .
left bottom lines and
25
Greely James C ...
... right top lines and
21
Gronblad Albert A
front cover, left bottom lines and 13
Hall Bros
. left bottom lines and
12
Harris D F & Sons Inc
right bottom lines and
5
Henderson & Johnson Inc
left bottom corner cards and
43
Hiltz Robert C .
right top corner cards and
38
Hotel Gloucester left top corner cards, Y and 27 John Alden-Griffin Co right bottom lines and 11
Johnson John A Inc .... front cover and 29
Nally Oil Co .right top lines and 42 National House Furnishing Co . front cover and 22
12 Nauss L B & Sons Inc . back bone,
top and bottom ends, front edge and 35 North Shore Furniture Co Inc left top corner cards and 24
Nunes Hannibal A .
44
Parkhurst Marine Railway Co
right top lines and 37
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Parks Brothers
right top corner cards and 15 Pike W S Funeral Service
front cover, right top lines and 20
Pratt Charles R
left top corner cards and 13 46 10
Pratt Don .right top lines and Purdy Albert H
Reed George A & Son
18
Reed's Roy Garage
Reilly Motor Co Inc right top corner cards and
back cover, right bottom lines Rice Charles E right bottom corner cards and 16 Rockport National Bank left top lines and 9 Rocky Neck Marine Railway Division .. left bottom lines and 37
Rogers George K Store 32
PAGE Rogers Louis A .... left bottom lines and 46
Sears, Roebuck & Co . 14 Smith J Raymond Inc 37 Smith L E Plumbing & Heating Co
left top corner cards and 45
Somers James V Co Inc
left top corner cards and 34
Steele Carroll K front cover and 30 Sunnyside Bakery right top corner cards and 5
4 Tally's Auto Sales left top corner cards and 4
3 Tavern The back cover and 26
Thurston George W Inc
back cover, right bottom lines and 2 Thurston Real Estate Agency left top corner cards and 47
Tognazzi Bros .left bottom lines Tompkins C F Co front cover and 23 1
MORE GOODS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS
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INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 800 city, county, state and national Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1951-1952 edition of the Gloucester City Directory, including Rockport.
Confidence in the growth of Gloucester's and Rockport's industry and wealth, and in the advancement of their civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Gloucester and Rockport to the world.
The enviable position occupied by R. L. POLK & CO.'S Directories in the estimation of the public throughout the country, has been estab- lished by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty co-operation of the business and professional men and residents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the Gloucester and Rockport Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the cities.
Five Major Departments The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, on white paper, pages 9 to 25 for Gloucester and 374 to 376 for Rockport, presents lists of city, county, state and federal officials, post office information, schools and institutions, with officers, courts holding sessions in the city, population tables, statistical review, and manufacturing, trade and civic surveys.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, on white paper, is included in pages 29 to 258 for Gloucester and 377 to 423 for Rockport. This is the only record in existence that aims to show the name, marital status, occupation and address of each adult resident of Gloucester and Rockport, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corpora- tion in the city.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE beginning opposite page 260, printed on tinted paper in a separate series of pages from 1 to 48, contains the advertisements of leading banking, manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Gloucester and Rockport. The advertisements are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and merits a survey by all buyers eager to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. In a great com- mercial and industrial center like Gloucester, the necessity of having this kind of information immediately available is obvious. General appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the many reference users of this City Directory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 261 to 292 for Gloucester and 425 to 432 for Rockport, on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional con- cerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous in- terests of the community. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller. As such it plays an important part in the daily activities of the commercial and professional world. More buyers and sellers meet through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium.
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THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, on pink paper, covers pages 293 to 369 for Gloucester and 433 to 452 for Rockport. In this section the names of the streets are arranged in alphabetical order; the numbers of the residences and business concerns are arranged in numerical order under the name of each street, and the names of the householders and concerns are placed opposite the numbers. The names of the intersecting streets appear at their respective crossing points on each street. Special features of this section are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.
Municipal Publicity
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GLOUCESTER
" The Fish City"
(Courtesy Gloucester Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government: Commission com-
posed of Mayor and four Aldermen.
Normal Population: 25,048. Summer Population : 40,000 estimated.
Area: Thirty-six square miles.
Altitude: Fifty-seven feet. Assessed Valuation : Personal $4,180,825.00 (1950); Real Estate $38,110,150.00 (1950); Automobile $3,530,225.00 (1950); Vessels $4,269,325.00 (1950) with $52.00 (1951) tax per $1,000.
White Population: 25,048.
Colored Population: None.
Native Born Population: 85 percent of whole population.
Predominating Nationalities in City: Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, English.
Parks and Playgrounds: Fifteen with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $1,782,500.00 (July 31, 1951).
Financial: Two National banks, One Trust Company, with total deposits of $16,959,- 344.88, resources $17,810,732.79. . One sav- ings bank with total deposits of $10,282,- 672.10, resources $11,788,263.65. One co- operative bank with total resources of $5,732,591.19.
Post Office Receipts: $236,154.35. Telephones in Service: 10,891.
Church Buildings: Twenty-three.
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 40,000 peo- ple within the trading area covering a ra- dius of thirteen miles.
Hotels: There is one commercial hotel open all year, with total of twenty-seven rooms; also fifteen hotels which operate only in the summer months.
City Served By: Boston & Maine railroad. Amusements: There are two theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,132 people.
Hospital: One with eighty-five beds, fifteen bassinets.
Education. Number of schools, 17, including 1 high school, 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools 3,824. Total of all teachers is 150. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $4,363,000.00.
Libraries: There are about 40,000 volumes in the library of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage two hundred eighty, with one hundred twenty miles paved, seventy miles semi-public, gravel, oiled; and ninety miles unim- proved. Miles of gas mains laid, fifty-nine, of sewers, nineteen and one-half miles main lines (approx). Capacity of water works (municipal) 716,176,000 gallons, daily average pump of 2,529,000 gallons with 107.2 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $3,562,261.11. New distributing reservoir has been built at . Bond's Hill, with a 6,000,000 gallon capacity in place of old 3,000,000 gallon capacity.
Fire Department: Employs 83 men includ- ing a chief, three deputy chiefs, a motor supervisor, 5 permanent captains, 55 per- manent men, 18 callmen, with the follow- ing equipment: 5 pumping engines (1 in reserve), 3 ladder trucks, 1 combination hose and water truck, 1 squad wagon, a chief's car and 1 combination police and fire boat. There are 4 fire stations. Value of fire department property $300,300.00.
City Electrician: Has two cars in service. Police Department: Has 37 regular men, 29 patrolmen and 8 superior officers and 11 reserve men with 1 station and 8 pieces of motor equipment and 1 police boat, 5 pieces of apparatus and the police boat are equipped with two-way radios.
GEOGRAPHY
Gloucester is located about thirty miles northeast of Boston, Massachusetts. The orig- inal town of Gloucester occupied the whole northern promontory of Massachusetts Bay, known as Cape Ann and was bounded on the north by Ipswich Bay, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Massachu- setts Bay and on the west by the towns of Manchester, Essex and Ipswich.
Cape Ann is divided into two nearly equal sections by the Annisquam River, an arm of the sea extending from Ipswich Bay about four miles towards and into Gloucester Har- bor. Gloucester of today retains practically its same boundaries and includes the follow-
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ing districts: Magnolia, Annisquam, River- dale, West Gloucester, East Gloucester, Bay View and Lanesville. The northeastern por- tion of the Cape, however, which was in- cluded in the territory of the original town of Gloucester, is separated into what is known as the town of Rockport, the extreme end being known as Pigeon Cove.
The principal harbor is on the south side of the city and is formed by Eastern Point- a strip of unequal width extending in a south- westerly direction about three miles-a rock bound coast that defies the violence of surg- ing waves dashing almost constantly against it, and affording within a safe shelter and anchorage for a large fleet.
The surface of the town is uneven; and its peculiar character strikes every beholder at first sight with astonishment. Bald, rocky hills, bold and precipitous ledges of rock, with acres of bowlders of various sizes, in many places scattered thickly over the sur- face, combine to present a rare scene of naked ruggedness. The small tracts and patches of clear land, by which this view of barrenness is occasionally relieved, are cov- ered with a strong and fertile soil, suited to the growth of most of our New England agri- cultural products.
The rocks of Cape Ann are granite, of a beautiful, dark color and are easily wrought into blocks of any needed size. Quarries formerly operated in different localities, sev- eral at Rockport, at the lower extremity of the Cape; others at Lanesville and at Bay View-suburban districts of Gloucester prop- er. The products of these quarries in the form of monuments, decorative ornamenta- tions, paving blocks, etc. have been shipped to every part of the world.
In all, Cape Ann is picturesque. It is truly typical of the rock bound coast of our north- ern Atlantic States. A drive around the shore road from which an open view of the ocean is afforded practically throughout the entire route, presents a picture of rugged rocks dashed over with spray, these interposed with as many as forty beaches of various sizes around the entire Cape. The drives around Cape Ann are pretty. The inland roads through wooded sections of hard-wood growth give a touch of country life in sharp contrast to the rugged scenery along the shore.
HISTORY
From the time of the early explorers Gloucester, Mass., has occupied a large place in the history of New England and the na- tion. It is claimed that the Norsemen in 1001 skirted the New England Coast, which they called New Vineland and landed here. It has also been said that they called the place "Kroasnes", the Cape of the Cross; that they were attacked by the Indians, their chieftain, Thorwald, being killed and buried on shore. In 1605, as authentically recorded, Cham- plain, on a voyage of exploration and discov- ery sailed about the cape which he named CAPE AUX ISLES.
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