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CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1960 XLIV
INCLUDING ROCKPORT
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
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Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, the first major depart- ment on white paper, presents lists of city, county and state officials, statistical review, and manufacturing, trade and civic surveys.
II. THE YELLOW PAGES constitute the second major depart- ment of the Directory. This embraces a complete list of the names and addresses of the business and professional concerns of the city, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings-a catalog of all the activities of the city. Preceding this catalog, likewise grouped under appropriate headings, are the advertisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to present a more complete list of their products or services than is possible in the catalog itself. The Yellow Pages represent reference advertising at its best, and merit the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a busy and diversified communuity like Gloucester, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always im- mediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common interme- diary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
III. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, is the third major department printed on white paper. 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 the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city. A similar list for Rockport appears after the Gloucester House.
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the fourth major department on green paper. 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 re- spective crossing points on each street. Special feature of this section
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are the designation of tenant-owned homes and the designation of homes and places of business having telephones. A similar department for Rockport appears after the Alphabetical Section.
Community Publicity
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The Gloucester Directory Library
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Gloucester City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Glouces- ter Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 700 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE YELLOW PAGES
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Aptt's Ice & Oil Service .. back cover and 32 Babson, Elwell & Davis Inc
Brown William G Company
right top lines and
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Burgess Elmer F Inc
back cover, left top lines and
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Butman A Carl left top corner cards and 29
Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co left top corner cards and 20
Cape Ann National Bank back cover, right top lines and 6
Cape Ann Savings Bank
front cover, right top lines and 7
Cape Ann Television Service Inc 36 Carl & Glover
right top corner cards and 19
Chick George P & Son 36
Chubby's Auto Service Inc
left top corner cards and 4
Cooper-Bessemer Corp The
right top lines and
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Corliss Bros Inc
left top corner cards and
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Country Shore Realty Co left top lines and 15
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Cunningham & Kerr .... front cover and Cunningham Paint Co Inc right top corner cards and 35
Curtis Russell M left top corner cards and 15
Davis Clarence O right top corner cards and 15
Davis Coal & Oil Co .... back cover and 33 Deering Sylvester D-John F Howard Co 18
Dodge C Furniture Co 24
Douglass Pharmacy 18
Faulk Bros Inc
front stencil, left top lines and 14
Favazza Salvatore J 29
Frost D O Company
right bottom lines and 12
Gloucester Building Supply Co Inc.
30
Torrey Helen M
Gloucester Camera and Photo Inc
left top corner cards and 12
Gloucester Co-operative Bank 8
Gloucester Daily Times
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Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester front cover and 9 Yellow Cab Co .front cover and B
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Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co ..
insert at Rockport Section and
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Gloucester Supply Company
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Gray Charles J & Sons Inc
left top lines and
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Greely James C Funeral Home
front cover and
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Gronblad Albert A
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Harris D F Sons Inc
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Henderson & Johnson Inc
left bottom corner cards and
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John Alden-Griffin Co Inc
right top lines and 13
Johnson John A Inc
right top corner cards and
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"Les" Malloch's Auto School
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McCarthy Edward L
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National House Furnishing Co
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North Shore Automotive Co
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North Shore Furniture Co
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Nunes Hannibal A .
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Oliver Window Company
right top corner cards and 2
Peterson Lawrence N
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Pratt Charles R
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Rockport National Bank
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Smith J Raymond Inc
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Steele Carroll K .
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Thurston George W Inc
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Tompkins C F Co
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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 $4,340,450.00 (1959); Real Estate $48,368,315.00 (1959); Automobile $5,275,090.00 (1959); Vessels $1,753,100.00 (1959) with $69.00 (1959) tax per $1,000.
White Population: 25,866.
Colored Population: None.
Native Born Population:
85 percent of
whole population.
Predominating Nationalities in City: Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, English.
Parks and Playgrounds: Sixteen with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt: $2,372,000.00
Financial: Two National banks, One Trust Company, with total deposits of $20,386,- 544.53; resources $23,302,787.46. One sav- ings bank with total deposits of $15,234,- 147.50, resources $17,397,420.24. One co- operative bank with total resources of $10,311,414.00.
Post Office Receipts: $260,813.78.
Telephones in Service: 17,643.
Church Buildings: Twenty-one.
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 40,000 peo- ple within the trading area covering a ra- dius of thirteen miles.
Hotels: There are two commercial hotels open all year, with total of fourty rooms; also thirteen hotels which operate only in the summer months. There are motels, motor courts, light housekeeping cottages, guest homes, and other facilities to accom- modate summer guests.
City Served By: Boston & Maine railroad. Amusements: There are two theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,132 people, also a drive-in theatre off Route 128 at Exit 3, car capacity, 663.
Hospital: One presently with one hundred nineteen beds, fifteen bassinets. Expan- sion program now under way will increase this number to one hundred twenty-five beds and twenty-five bassinets.
Education: Number of schools, 14, including 1 high school, 2 parochial schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 4,800. Total of all teachers is 200. Value of all school property, private and public, approximately $6,051,000.00.
Libraries: There are 39,943 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, twenty-six miles main lines (ap- prox). Capacity of water works (munici- pal) 1,320,000,000 gallons, daily average pump of 2,855,000 gallons with 119 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $4,188,000.00. New distributing reservoir has been built at Bond's Hill, with a 6,000,000 gallon capacity.
Fire Department: Employs 81 men includ- ing a chief, three deputy chiefs, a motor supervisor, 6 permanent captains, 47 per- manent men, 12 reserve men, 11 callmen, with the following equipment: 7 pumping engines (2 in reserve), 2 ladder trucks, 1 combination hose and water truck, 1 squad wagon, a chief's car, and 1 combination police and fire boat, 1 forestry truck and 1 jeep truck. There are 4 fire stations. Value of fire department property $300,- 300.00.
City Electrician : Has 1 car and 1 truck in service.
Police Department: Has 36 regular men, 8 superior officers and 8 reserve men with 1 station and 7 pieces of motor equipment and 1 combination police and fire boat, 6 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.
The next year in early September he founded what is now Eastern Point and came to anchor in the inner harbor between Five and Ten Pound Islands-so named for the
sums for which they were purchased from the Indians in Colonial times. Champlain was charmed with the place and made a pro- longed stay. His name for it was singularly appropiate, "Le Beau Port", the Beautiful Harbor.
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