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ALBERT A. GRONBLAD
SEE PAGE 12 Buyers' Guide
MASON CONTRACTOR TELEPHONES 4241 -4301-3
CARROLL K. STEELE
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GLOUCESTER, MASS.
SEE PAGE 26 Buyers Guide
NATIONAL HOUSE
FURNISHING CO.
Quality Furniture and Floor Covering 196 MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 1904
SEE PAGE 20 Buyers' Guide
INSURE WITH JOHN A. JOHNSON, INC. INSURANCE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TELEPHONE 67 Gloucester National Bank Building
Established 1900
Telephone 884-W
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GLOUCESTER, MASS.
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CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1955-56 XLII
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 Numerical Telephone Directory, A Map and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character ; also a
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
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Babson, Elwell & Davis Inc right top lines and page 27
Brown William G Co back cover, right top lines and
14
Burgess Elmer F Inc .
back cover, left top lines and
18
Butman A Carl left top corner cards and
28
Cameron C Floyd .
right top corner cards and
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Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co .. left top corner cards and 17
Cape Ann Electronic Supply Co left top lines and
15
Cape Ann National Bank back cover, right top lines and 3 Lane Everett T Co Cape Ann Savings Bank .. 4 front cover, right top lines and right top corner cards and 35 "Les" Malloch's Auto School right top corner cards and 2 Mahony G Everett Inc
Central Taxi Inc of Gloucester right top lines and
37 36
Chick George P & Son .
Cleaves Charles H Agency The right top corner cards and 28
Cooper-Bessemer Corp The right top lints and
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Corliss Bros Inc left top corner cards and Cunningham & Kerr. ... left top lines and Curtis Russell M
left top corner cards and 12
Day John W .. .right top lines and 12
Dodge C Furniture Co
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Faulk Bros Inc left top lines and 11
Favazza Salvatore J 28 Fernwood Garage
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Frost D O Company right bottom lines and 9 Gloucester Building Supply Co Inc .. 31
Gloucester Camera and Photo Shop The. . right top corner cards and 9
Gloucester Co-operative Bank 5
back cover, right top lines and Gloucester Daily Times . 33 Gloucester Marine Railways Corp right top lines and 31
Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester front cover and 6
Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co .. insert at Rockport Section
Steele Carroll K .. . . .front cover and Stevens Motor Sales Inc
Gray Charles J & Sons Inc .... left top lines and 22
Greely James C Funeral Home
Gronblad Albert A
front cover, left top lines and
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Hall Bros
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Henderson & Johnson Inc
left bottom corner cards and
34 Industrial Blacksmith Shop back cover, left top corner cards and 8 10 John Alden-Griffin Co right bottom lines and
Johnson John A Inc
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Kierman Ray
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Klotz Adelaide E
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McCarthy Newton M
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30 top and bottom ends, front stencil and Nunes Hannibal A right top corner cards and 35 Pike Funeral Service 19 front cover, right top corner cards and Reed George A & Son 17
Reed's Roy Garage
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Rockport National Bank left top lines and 7 29 Rogers Geo K Store Rogers Louis A. right top corner cards and 36 Roland's for Flowers back cover and 9 and 17
Sandy Bay Forge. left top corner cards and 29 Sears, Roebuck and Co right top corner cards and Smith J Raymond Inc
15 31 Smith L E Plumbing & Heating Co left top corner cards and Somers James V Co Inc 35 29 26 2
Gloucester Supply Co 22 Gloucester Traveler Motel The back cover and 32 Tavern The .. back cover and 23 Thurston Real Estate Agency 37 right top corner cards and Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co Ltd left top lines and 16 Granite Savings Bank. . left top lines and 7 Tompkins C F Co right top corner cards and 21 Union Transportation Co Inc . right top lines and 37 B
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 800 city, county, state and national Directories, present to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1955-56 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 7 to 23 for Gloucester and 362 to 364 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 25 to 231 for Gloucester and 365 to 407 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 232, printed on tinted paper in a separate series of pages, contains the advertisements of leading banking, manufacturing, business and professional 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 commercial 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 Direc- tory service.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 233 to 260 for Gloucester and 409 to 416 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 261 to 332 for Gloucester and 417 to 436 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
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in unbiased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manufacturing site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference, and serve as perpetual and reliable advertisements of Gloucester and Rockport.
The Gloucester Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Gloucester City Di- rectory, a Directory Library is maintained in the Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive and professinal men who have demonstrated their confi- dence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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GLOUCESTER
" The Fish City"
(Courtesy Gloucester Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government: Plan E (PR) with City Manager
Normal Population: 25,866. Summer Population: 40,000 estimated.
Area: Thirty-six square miles.
Altitude: Fifty-seven feet.
Assessed Valuation: Personal $4,055,625.00 (1955); Real Estate $42,958,515.00 (1955); Automobile $4,124,430.00 (1954); Vessels $2,740,240.00 (1955) with $55.40 (1955) tax per $1,000.
White Population: 25,866. Colored Population: None.
85 percent of Native Born Population: whole population.
Predominating Nationalities in City: Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, English.
Parks and Playgrounds: Fifteen with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $2,584,000.00 (Septem- ber 21, 1955).
Financial: Two National banks, One Trust Company, with total deposits of $17,126,- 620.96, resources $18,882,990.68. One sav- ings bank with total deposits of $12,615,- 178.81, resources $14,568,940.32. One co- operative bank with total resources of $8,065,000.00.
Post Office Receipts : $260,455.00. Telephones in Service: 15,647.
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 4,363. Total of all teachers is 198. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $4,363,000.00.
Libraries: There are 43,271 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, 6 permanent captains, 56 per- manent men, 15 reserve men, 12 callmen, with the following equipment: 6 pumping engines (1 in reserve), 2 ladder trucks, 1 reserve, 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 depart- ment property $300,300.00.
City Electrician: Has 1 car and 1 truck in service.
Police Department: Has 36 regular men, 8 superior officers and 6 reserve men with 1 station and 10 pieces of motor equipment and 1 combination police and fire 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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