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SEE PAGE 27 Buyers' Guide
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Quality Furniture and Floor Covering 196 MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 1904
SEE PAGE 21 Buyers' Guide
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(ESSEX COUNTY, MASS.) :
CITY DIRECTORY
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1953-54 XLI
INCLUDING ROCKPORT
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, A Map and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a
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GENERAL INDEX
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Abbreviations
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Alphabetical Section:
Gloucester
29
Rockport
357
Apartments
241,
401
Assessors
.18, 354
Association of North American Directory Publishers
X
Banks
244, 401
Board of Health 18, 354
Board of Public Welfare .18, 355
Buildings-Public & Office 246, 403
Buyers' Guide
opp 240
Calendar
6
Cape Ann Light Station
356
Cemeteries
247,
403
Chamber of Commerce
102
Churches
247, 403
City Government
17
City Offices
18
Probate Court 20
Public Health Service 21
Railroad Passenger Stations 264, 407
Registrars of Deeds
20
Registrars of Voters
18, 355
Rockport General Directory
357
Rockport Town Officers 354
School Department 19, 355
Sheriff
20
State Guard
21
Statistical Review
9
Straitsmouth Light Station
356
District Court
20
Drives
24
Fire Alarm Signal Boxes 18, 355
Fire Departments
18, 355
Gloucester Classified Business Directory. 241
Gloucester General Directory 29
Gloucester Statistics
22
Halls and Public Buildings
256, 405
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Harbor Masters
18, 375
Holidays
21
Homes
256
Hotels
.256, 406
Index to Advertisements
4
Libraries
21, 259, 356, 406
Medical Examiner
20
Military
21
Miscellaneous Information: Gloucester
9
Rockport 354
Organizations
261, 407
Park Commissioners 18, 355
Parks
24
Points of Interest
23
Police Departments
19, 355
Population
13
Population of Rhode Island 15
Post Offices .
21, 356
Classified Business Directory : Gloucester Rockport
241
Clubs
248, 403
Constables
.19, 354
Councilors
17
County Commissioners
20
County Officers
20
Courts
20
Custom House
21
District Attorney
20
Street Directory:
Gloucester
Rockport
409
273
Superintendents, Inspectors, &c
18
U S Postal Information
25
Water Commissioners
18, 375
Wharves
299
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION. THE YELLOW PAGES
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Art Jewelry Co Inc
left bottom lines and
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Babson Elwell & Davis Inc right top lines and 28
Barton A J & Son Inc
left top corner cards
Boston & Gloucester Express
left top corner cards and
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Brown William G Company
back cover, right bottom lines and
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Burgess Elmer F Inc ... left top lines and 18 Butman A Carl . left top corner cards and 29
Cameron C Floyd right top corner cards and 39
Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co
left top corner cards and
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Cape Ann Bottled Gas Co
right top lines and
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Cape Ann Fisheries Inc
right bottom lines and
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Cape Ann Motors Inc .... back cover and 2
Cape Ann National Bank
back cover, right top lines and 6
Cape Ann Savings Bank
7 front cover, right top lines and Carl & Glover C Central Taxi Service .. right top lines and 42
Chick George P & Son left top lines and
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Colonial Nursing Home
right bottom corner cards and
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Cooney Sail Co Inc right bottom lines and 41
Cooper-Bessemer Corp The
right bottom lines and 15
Corliss Bros Inc left top corner cards and 35 Cunningham & Kerr ... left top lines and 28
Cunningham Paint Co Inc .
right corner cards and 38
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Gloucester Coal & Lumber Co
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Gloucester Co-operative Bank
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Gloucester Daily Times,
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Gloucester Marine Railways Corp
right top lines and
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Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester .
front cover and
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Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co .. insert at Rockport Section
Gloucester Supply Co
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Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co Ltd
left top lines and
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Granite Savings Bank
left top lines and
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Gray Charles J & Sons Inc
left bottom lines and
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Greely James C
right top lines and
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Gronblad Albert A
front cover, left bottom lines and
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Hall Bros
.left bottom lines and
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Henderson & Johnson Inc
left bottom corner cards and
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John Alden-Griffin Co
right bottom lines and
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Johnson John A Inc
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Kierman Ray .
right top lines and
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Lane Everett T
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Madruga's Taxi ... back cover, right top lines
Mahoney G Everett Inc .
ribbon book mark and
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Metropolitan Ice Co .. right top lines and
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Nally Oil Co .
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National House Furnishing Co ..
front cover and
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Nauss L B & Sons Inc
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Nunes Hannibal A
right top corner cards and 38
Pike Funeral Service
front cover, right top lines and 19
Davis Taxi Service .front cover and Day John W right top lines and Dodge C Furniture Co 22
Ederer R J Co 16
Faulk Bros Inc .... left bottom lines and A 29
Favazza Salvatore J Fernwood Garage .left top lines and 5 back cover, right bottom lines and 3 Francis William M 35 Rice Charles E 14 Rockport National Bank left top lines and right bottom corner cards and 10 Frost D O Company right bottom lines and 11 Rocky Neck Marine Railway Division . left bottom lines and 33 Gloucester Building Supply Co Inc 32 Rogers Louis A .left bottom lines and 40
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Reilly Motor Co Inc .
Curtis Russell M left top corner cards and Davis Frank E Fish Co 16 Pratt Don 12 Reed George A & Son 17 .right top lines and 40 B Reed's Roy Garage . right top corner cards and
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Smith J Raymond Inc 33
Smith L E Plumbing & Heating Co
left top corner cards and 39 Somers James V Co Inc
Sears, Roebuck & Co 14 Sherwin Williams Co The left top lines and 37 Thurston George W Inc back cover, right bottom lines and 4 Thurston Real Estate Agency right top corner cards and 41
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Steele Carroll K .front cover and 27
Tavern The . back cover and 24
30 Tompkins C F Co . .right top corner cards
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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 1953-54 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.
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Five Major Departments The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, on white paper, pages 9 to 24 for Gloucester and 354 to 356 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 240 for Gloucester and 357 to 400 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 240, printed on tinted paper in a separate series of pages from 1 to 44, 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 241 to 269 for Gloucester and 401 to 408 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.
THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET
AND AVENUE GUIDE. on pink paper, covers pages 273 to 350 for Gloucester and 409 to 429 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 designa ion of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones.
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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: 25,167. Summer Population: 40,000 estimated.
Area: Thirty-six square miles.
Altitude: Fifty-seven feet.
Assessed Valuation : Personal $4,089,925.00 (1953); Real Estate $40,231,075.00 (1953); Automobile $3,439,530.00 (1953); Vessels
$4,020,000.00 (1953) with $51.80 (1953) tax per $1,000.
White Population: 25,167.
Colored Population: None. Native Born Population: whole population.
85 percent of
Predominating Nationalities in City: Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, English.
Parks and Playgrounds: Fifteen with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $1,613,898.40 (August 31, 1953).
Financial: Two National banks, One Trust Company, with total deposits of $15,375,- 047.93, resources $17,145,498.45. One sav- ings bank with total deposits of $11,309,- 326.04, resources $12,974,672.08. One co- operative bank with total resources of $6,410,918.28.
Post Office Receipts: $257,551.00.
Telephonez in Service: 15,110.
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, 16, including 1 high school, 1 parochial school. Number of pupils in public schools 4,181. Total of all teachers is 150. Value of all school pronertv. private and public, approximately $4,363,000.00.
Libraries: There are about 41,000 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) 917,178,000 gallons, daily average pump of 2,506,000 gallons with 112 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $3,699,201.98. 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, 56 per- manent men, 15 reserve men, 16 callmen, with the following 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 sta- tions. Value of fire department property $300,300.00.
City Electrician : Has two cars in service. Police Department: Has 29 regular men, 8 superior officers and 11 reserve men with 1 station and 10 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.
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