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Polk's GLOUCESTER
(ESSEX COUNTY, MASS.] CITY DIRECTORY 1963
Including Rockport
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· Numerical telephone directory
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 1,000 city, county, state and national Directories, presents to subscribers and the general public, this, the 1963 edition of the Gloucester City Directory, including Rock- port.
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 Direc- tory 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 established by rendering the best in Directory service. With an unrivaled organiza- tion, and having had the courteous and hearty co-operation of the busi- ness 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.
Four Major Departments
The four major departments are arranged in the following order: --
I. THE BUYERS' GUIDE constitutes the first major department of the Directory, printed on yellow paper. In the first section of this de- partment, grouped under appropriate headings, are included the adver- tisements and business cards of firms and individuals desiring to make a complete presentation of their products or services. Following this is the Classified Business section, which embraces a list of the names and addresses of all business and professional concerns of the cities, arranged in alphabetical order under appropriate headings -- a catalog of all the activities of the city. The Buyers' Guide represents reference advertising at its best, and merits the attention of all buyers and sellers seeking sources of supply or markets for goods. In a busy and diversi- fied community like Gloucester and Rockport, the necessity of having this kind of information up-to-date and always immediately available, is obvious. The Directory is the common intermediary between buyer and seller, and plays an important role in the daily activities of the commercial, industrial and professional world.
II. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and professional concerns, is the second 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, including Rockport, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
III. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, is the third major department printed on green paper. In this section the names of the streets are arranged in alpha- betical 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 num- bers. 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 listing of telephone numbers.
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INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL INDEX
IV. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, the fourth major department is printed on blue paper.
Community Publicity
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the com- munity, 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 Direc- tory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Gloucester Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 1,000 Directory Libraries installed in cities and towns throughout the U. S., Canada and Puerto Rico 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 business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.
R. L. POLK & CO., Publishers.
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page numbers below refer to the Buyers' Guide Section
Page
Addison Gilbert Hospital. left side lines
Andrews L E & Co . left side lines
Andy's Moving Service left side lines and
35
Aptt's Ice & Oil Service .
.back cover and 38 A
Barker R M & Co . back cover and
43
Benny The Florist . right side lines and
Beverly Motor Sales Co Inc
Blanchard William E Jeweler left side lines and
34
Brown's of Gloucester . right top lines and 17
Building Center of Gloucester Inc The .
right side lines
Burgess Elmer F Inc
back cover, right top lines and
24
Butman A Carl . right bottom lines and 33
Cape Ann Anchor & Forge Co .left top lines and
22
Cape Ann Bank & Trust Company . insert at Street Guide, right
side lines and
7
Cape Ann Bowling Center right side lines and 11 8
Cape Ann Savings Bank. back bone, right top lines and
Cape Ann Television Service Inc
. left side lines and
44
Cape Ann Tool Co
.left side lines and
23
Cape Shore Realty left side lines and
16
Carl & Glover . . back cover and
20
Caufield Gerald E .left side lines and 41
Chick George P & Son
41
Cleaves Charles H Agency The
right side lines and
33
Colonial Flower Shop The
right top lines and
21
Corliss Bros Inc . left top lines and
36
Credit Bureau of Greater Salem Inc left side lines
Cunningham & Kerr
left top lines and
16
Deering Electric Co
left side lines and
19
Douglass Pharmacy left top lines and
18
East Gloucester Pharmacy Inc.
18
Empire Clothing Co
left side lines
Faulk Bros Inc .
right bottom lines and
34
Foley Clifford F
.left side lines and 41
Frost D O Company
right top lines and
12
Gloucester Building Supply Co Inc
right bottom lines and 35
Gloucester Camera and Photo Inc
left top lines and
11
Gloucester Chamber of Commerce
left side lines
Gloucester Daily Times .
36
Gloucester National Bank of Gloucester
front cover, right
Gloucester Oil Supply Co
left side lines and
37
Gloucester Supply Company
right side lines and
28
Gorton's of Gloucester Inc
.left side lines
Gray Charles J & Sons Inc
left top lines and
28
Greely James C Funeral Home
front cover and 25
Gronblad Albert A .
front cover, left top lines and
15
Harris D F & Sons Inc
right bottom lines and . left side lines and
33
Henderson & Johnson Inc
.right top lines and
39
Hiltz Robert (
right side lines and
36
Hudder-Parsons Inc . right side lines and
18
Jan-Sil Concrete Forms Inc .right top lines and
16
John Alden-Griffin Co Inc top stencil, right top lines and
13
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co left bottom lines and
34
Johnson John A Inc .right top lines and
34
front cover and 30
Davis Clarence O
front stencil, left top lines and 14
Favazza Salvatore J
side lines and 9
6
Harrison David E .
21 Z
Babson-Elwell & Davis Inc
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
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Kierman Ray Klotz Adelaide E
right bottom lines and 40
right side lines and 41
"Les" Malloch's Auto School
. back cover and 2
Mahony G Everett Inc . ribbon book mark and 31
Massachusetts Electric Co .
right side lines
Morrendo's Inc D B A West End Taxi Service
left side lines
National House Furnishings Co of Gloucester
front cover and 26
Nelson's Pharmacy
left side lines and 18
New England Telephone & Telegraph Co
left side lines
Norman Office Supply Inc .
right side lines and
37 3
North Shore Credit Bureau
left side lines
North Shore Furniture Co
right side lines and
28
North Shore Gas Company
left side lines
Peterson Lawrence N .
left top lines and 39
Pratt Charles R
left side lines and 16
Public Finance Co
left side lines
Rockport National Bank
back cover and
10
Roland's for Flowers .
right top lines, 11 and
21
Sears, Roebuck and Co
left side lines
Smith L E Inc .
.left bottom lines and
29
Somers James V Co Inc
.right side lines and
35
Steele Carroll K Insurance Agency Inc
.front cover and 32
Sweeney Ethel M .
left bottom lines and
40 5
Tally's Auto Sales Inc
.left top lines and
Telco Television Inc .
right side lines and
44
Thomas Sail & Awning Co Inc
right side lines and
5
Thurston George W Inc
. left top lines and
5
Thurston Real Estate Agency
right bottom lines and
42
Tompkins C F Co
. front cover and
27
Wetmore Rentsit .
left side lines and
42
Whalen Chevrolet-Olds Inc
bottom stencil and
4
Yellow Cab Co
.front cover and B
North Shore Automotive Co
left side lines and
GLOUCESTER
"THE FISH CITY"
(Courtesy Gloucester Chamber of Commerce)
Statistical Review
Form of Government -- Plan E (PR) with City Manager.
Normal Population -- 25,789 (Federal Census 1960).
Summer Population -- 40,000 estimated.
Area -- Thirty-six square miles.
Altitude -- Fifty-seven feet.
Assessed Valuation -- Personal $4,480,550 (1963); Real Estate $53,094,795 (1963); Automobile $4,443,170 (1963); Vessels $739,000 (1963); with $68.00 (1963) tax per $1,000.
Native Born Population -- 85 per cent of whole population.
Predominating Nationalities in City -- Native American, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish, Canadian, English.
Parks and Playgrounds -- Sixteen with 700 acres.
City's Bonded Debt -- $2,218,000 (May 1, 1963).
Financial -- Cape Ann Bank and Trust Company, and Gloucester National Bank with total combined resources of $23,769,968; Cape Ann Savings Bank with total resources of $22,971,000; Gloucester Coopera- tive Bank with total resources of $12,218,500.
Post Office Receipts -- $314,978.00 (July 31, 1962).
Telephones in Service -- 8,860.
Church Buildings -- Twenty-one.
Trade -- Territory (Retail) serves 40,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of thirteen miles.
Hotels-There are two commercial hotels open all year, with total of forty rooms; also 3 hotels which operate only in the summer months. There are motels, motor courts, light housekeeping cottages, guest homes, and other facilities to accommodate summer guests.
City Served By -- Boston & Maine railroad.
Amusements-There are two indoor theatres, with a total seating capacity of 2,132 people, a drive-in theatre off Route 128 at Exit 3, car capacity, 663.
Hospitals -- (1), Fully approved general hospital with maternity serv- ice; 119 beds, 25 bassinets, can expand up to 135 beds without difficulty. Maintains referral out-patient department. Surgical, Medical and Dental staff includes 35 local doctors and dentists plus consulting staff of ap- proximately 20.
Education -- Public: 1 High School, enrollment 1,800; 1 Central Gram- mar School, enrollment 820; 10 elementary, including primary schools, including 4 ultra-modern completed in past 14 years, enrollment 26,045. Parochial: 1 High School, enrollment 130; 1 Grammar School, grades 1-8, enrollment 640; Second parochial school expected to operate during 1965, boys' high school, expected enrollment, 400. Private: 1 school, grades 1-8, enrollment 165. Value of all school property, private and public approximately $7,000,000.
Libraries -- Central Library in City contains 37,413 volumes in adult section and 14,743 in children's section. It also has 1,115 recordings. Branch libraries are maintained in East Gloucester and Lanesville. Private libraries located at Annisquam Post Office and in Magnolia.
City Statistics -- Total street mileage 125, with 100 miles paved, 25 miles unpaved. Miles of gas mains laid, 62; sewers, 15.3 miles main lines. Capacity of water works (municipal) 1,320,000,000 gallons, daily average pump of 3,264,105 gallons with 123.1 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $4,246,000. Distributing reservoir at Bond's Hill with a 6,000,000 gallon capacity. New storage reservoir now being built at Goose Cove, should be completed by late 1964.
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Fire Department -- Central Station, city proper. Substations àt Mag- nolia, East Gloucester, and Bay View. Employs 73 men including a Chief, 3 Deputy Chiefs, a Motor Supervisor, 6 permanent Captains, 46 permanent men, 8 reserve men, and 8 call men, with the following equipment: 6 pumping engines (1 in reserve), 2 ladder trucks, 1 com- bination hose and water truck, 1 rescue squad wagon, a chief's car, and 1 combination police and fire boat, 2 forestry trucks, 1 jeep. Value of fire department property, approximately $300,000.
City Electrician-Has 1 car and 1 truck in service.
Police Department -- Has 36 regular men, 8 superior officers and 9 reserve men with 1 station and 7 pieces of motor equipment and 1 com- bination police and fire boat. Six pieces of apparatus and the police boat are equipped with two-way radios.
Geography
Gloucester is located about thirty miles northeast of Boston, Massa- chusetts. The original 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 Massachusetts 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 Harbor. Gloucester of today retains practically its same boundaries and includes the following districts: Magnolia, Annisquarm, Riverdale, West Gloucester, East Gloucester, Bay View and Lanesville. The northeastern portion of the Cape, however, which was included 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 southwesterly direction about three miles -- a rock bound coast that defies the violence of surging 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 boulders of various sizes, in many places scattered thickly over the surface, 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 covered with a strong and fertile soil, suited to the growth of most of our New England agricultural 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, several at Rockport, at the lower ex- tremity of the Cape; others at Lanesville and at Bay View -- suburban districts of Gloucester proper. The products of these quarries in the form of monuments, decorative ornamentations, 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 northern 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 in- land 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, Massachusetts, has occupied a large place in the history of New England and the nation.
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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, Champlain, on a voyage of exploration and discovery 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 prolonged stay. His name for it was singularly ap- propriate, "Le Beau Port," the Beautiful Harbor.
After Champlain's departure came Captain John Smith and Miles Standish with his company of followers. The honor of making the first settlement, however, which was also the first permanent settlement in Massachusetts Bay, belongs to the Dorchester Colony, a company formed by the Rev. John White, a Puritan minister, rector of St. Peter's church of Dorchester, England. His colony sailed for and reached what is now Gloucester in 1623, not, as had been supposed, for the purpose of escaping religious persecution. Its real object was the pursuit of the fisheries which had been successfully carried on off the New England Coast since 1606. The site of the first settlement was at Stage Fort, now a public reservation known as "Stage Fort Park," where their landing is suitably commemorated with a bronze tablet which bears an inscrip- tion telling the story of their original landing.
In 1624 Roger Conant was appointed Governor and the Colony attract- ed much attention. Its interests were concerned entirely in fishing and farming. The fisheries were successfully pursued and good catches sent to Balboa, Spain, but the arable land of the Cape was exceedingly limited. This latter fact resulted in the agricultural part of the colony moving to Salem. Those remaining, however, were joined by others from time to time, among them being a colony from Plymouth in 1630. In 1632 the first church was built and services held. In 1639, the General Court was asked to incorporate the town. A charter was granted in 1642, the town taking the name of Gloucester from the cathedral city in England, whence many of the early settlers came.
The history of Gloucester is entwined with events of national import- ance. It tells us the story of the expedition against Louisburg, the Gi- braltar of America, -- how these men, in a craft commanded by Captain Sanders and in a land company under Captain Byles, gave splendid serv- ice in reducing that stronghold; they were with Wolfe at Quebec and were in the foreground when the flag of France was lowered for the last time on the American Continent. In the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, in the Spanish American War and in the World War, the call to arms has ever been answered by the population of this fishing city. Their services have been rendered on land and sea and they have left behind a record of which any community may well be proud.
Fisheries
Destiny ordained that Gloucester should be the first and greatest fish- ing port in the New World. Back as far as 1602, that daring navigator, GOSNOLD, found that codfish were plenty in Massachusetts Bay and for twenty years before a permanent settlement was made here, the fish- eries were pursued off this coast with profit. Destiny also took a hand when the Dorchester Company set out from England in 1623 to engage in a fishing trip and also to found a permanent colony. The ancient records tell us that the expedition had no definite place in view for settlement and that arriving late in the season at the fishing grounds on the Maine coast, finding the fishing poor and in hopes of making up a full fare, the
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