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SPACE
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POWER
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
PAGE NUMBERS BELOW REFER TO THE BUYERS' GUIDE SECTION, THE YELLOW PAGES
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Highland Cleaners Inc
21
Humphrey R M Co .. front cover, 50 and
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Industrial Credit Corporation of New
England
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Jay's Radio & Appliance Co Inc
right top corner cards and
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Johnson Thomas W Co
right top corner cards and 29
Kenney Flowers ..
35
Kimball System Inc The
back bone, 3 and 74
Knowlton & Newton Co Inc 73
L & L Transportation Co 76
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Laliue W C Inc
73 67 bottom stencil, right top lines, 27 and Lee T C Insurance Agency Inc front cover and 45
Lessard Paul J
left top corner cards and
66
Lowell Buick Company 5 Lowell Chamber of Commerce C
71
Lowell Co-operative Bank
back cover and 11
Lowell Cycle & Key Shop Inc 19 Y
Lowell Electric Light Corporation The . Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank The right top and side lines, front cover and Lowell Gas Co .... left top and left side lines, front stencil and 40
12
24 Lowell Glass Co Inc . right top corner cards and 41
Lowell Institution for Savings 13 Lowell Monument Co Inc The left side lines and 63
32
Lowell Motor Sales Inc
right top lines and
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Lowell Mutual Fire Insurance Co
left side lines and
46
Lowell Sun Publishing Co
inside back cover and Alpha Cards
Luz Brothers
62
Lynch Wallpaper & Paint Co
66
Mahoney Vincent W 52
right top corner cards and
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Mailloux Bros
.left side lines and
29
Marty's Penthouse
71
Cullinan Industrial Caterers Inc right top corner cards and 20 Curran James P 23
Demers Plate Glass Co of Lowell 41 61
Desrochers Mfg Co Inc .
Diamond Taxi of Lowell Inc 74 20 54
Donaldson's .......... left top lines and Donohoe John Corbett
Draper, Sears & Co
left top corner cards and 20
Dupuis Arthur J right top corner cards and 29
Dutton Tire and Automotive Distributors left side lines and 6
Elliott's left top lines
Excel Liquor Co 58
Father John's Medicine Co Inc 34
Fidelity Consumer Banking Company
right top lines and 18
Flood, Valentine & Foisy
1400 Motors
Gagnon Co The left top lines and
Gaumont Bros Inc
Giatas George D
Gray Furniture Co Inc
Guyette Walter E Co
Hannigan C A & Sons
Hart Raymond D
Harvey, Harvey & Walsh
Higgins Thomas M A 55
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Achin Paul R
Archambault Henri A
Bailey F & E & Co Inc
right top lines and 34
Barrows Travel Service Inc The
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Bates E V & Company
Bergeron Albert E J
Bissonnette Motors Inc right top corner cards and 51 3
Blackie's Gulf Service
right top corner cards and Blanchard Sheet Metal and Roofing Inc . Bon Marche Inc The
Boyd Roger Inc .
right top, right bottom lines and
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Brady John .. right top corner cards and Brooks, Jordan & Graves 21
Bureau Bros Inc . right top corner cards and
Burlen Robert & Son Inc
right top lines and 19
Byam Bros Insurance Agency Inc left top lines and 51
Byers Frank H Insurance Agency left top lines and 49 51
Cantor & Company .... left top lines and Cawley Coal Co Inc .... back cover and Central Automatic Heating Co
Central Savings Bank The right top corner cards and 41
right side lines, front cover and Cherry & Webb Co ... left side lines and Church Fred. C. & Co
8
front cover, left top lines and City Institution for Savings
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Cogger P Co Inc
back cover, right top lines and
72 54
Corbeil Joseph H 52
Cote's Paint Factory
McDonald Oil & Ice Co left side lines and 65
McGoohan Fuel & Appliance Co back cover and 65
McInerney Joseph C
right top corner cards, 52, 56 and 69 McKenna James W Sons Inc . . left top lines and 37
McKittrick Frank G W Co . right side lines and 42 56 McLauglılin Hubert L 69 22 38 14
McNamara James F .. left side lines and McQuade Inc ..... .right top lines and
Meehan & Kirwin
Merrimack River Savings Bank
Middlesex County National Bank-Apple- ton Office . .. right top and side lines and 15 62
Middlesex Paper Tube Co Inc
Middlesex Supply Co Inc left top lines and 35 23
Mills Danny Inc
Mongeau Leo R 52
Morse Funeral Home
38
back cover, right top lines and
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Newman's Inc
Neyman Furniture Co 39
Norcross & Leighton Inc
right top lines and 50 O'Brien Daniel J & Son Insurance Agency left top lines and 47
Achin Henry Insurance Agency Inc 51 and 69
Achin & Howard
back cover, 49 and
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First Federal Savings and Loan Associa- tion of Lowell .front cover and 10 55 4 32 75 69
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Cohen Max J
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PAGE O'Brien John E Pharmacy right top corner cards
Palm Grain Co Inc
41
Pease Motor Co .. left side lines and 5 Snow Frederic A & Co
Pepin Nelson J & Co
Picard J George
Poirier Henry Inc .. right side lines and Pollard A G Co .. back cover and 31
Prince G C & Son Inc
64 back cover, right side lines and
Proctor Wm P Co
front cover, left side lines and
59 61
Richardson G H
Riley Walter J Agency Inc left top corner cards and 70 Riney M Edward & Son Robertson Co The 70 39 56 26 70 Washington Savings Bank
Rogers & Cassidy
Rourke Fred H Co
Runels Chester M .... left top lines and
Runels R E Construction Co Inc
28
Russell Lumber Co .. left side lines and Saunders Funeral Home
right top corner cards and
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Scott Hardware .... left side lines and Scott Jewelry Co
42
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Sherwin-Williams Co 66 Zacharer Francis C
Silva Brothers
right top corner cards and 66 Slowey Charles H 53 2 Soucy Wire & Iron Works
60 29 39
Spalding, Qua & Hall left top lines and 53 56 43 Stickney Arthur H Sullivan Bros 67 27 Sullivan D I Co Inc 57 Sullivan Ernest C Talbot Mills Inc .... left side lines and 62 6 Traders and Mechanics Insurance Co right side lines and Towers Motor Parts Corp 48 58
Turcotte Arthur L & Co Inc
Union National Bank of Lowell insert at streets and 16 6 Waldimer Pontiac .... left side lines and Walsh James Sons Inc 28 left side lines and 17 35 25
60 White Electric Service Inc
Wilson E A Co . .. top edge and Wood-Abbott Co .... left side lines and 53
York Real Estate left top corner cards and 70 57
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INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO., publishers of more than 800 city, county, state and national Direc- tories, presents to subscribers and the general public, this the 1956 edition of the Lowell City Directory.
Confidence in the growth of Lowell's industry, population and wealth, and in the ad- vancement of its civic and social activities, will be maintained as sections of this Directory are consulted, for the Directory is a mirror truly reflecting Lowell 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 Direc- tory service. With an unrivaled organization, and having had the courteous and hearty cooperation 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 Lowell Direc- tory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.
POPULATION
The population of Lowell at the time the U. S. Census was taken in 1950 was 97,249.
FIVE MAJOR DEPARTMENTS
The five major departments are arranged in the following order :-
I. THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents and business and profes- sional concerns the first major department is included 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 Lowell, and the name, official personnel, nature and address of each firm and corporation in the city.
II. THE BUYERS' GUIDE, separately paged, on tinted paper, is the second major department, and contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and pro- fessional interests of Lowell and vicinity. 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 progressive community like Lowell, 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.
III. THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY, the third major department, is printed on yellow paper. This department lists the names of all business and professional concerns in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable catalog of the numerous interests 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.
IV. THE DIRECTORY OF HOUSEHOLDERS, INCLUDING STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE, the fourth major department, is printed on green paper. In this section the numerical streets are arranged in numerical order followed by the named streets 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.
V. THE NUMERICAL TELEPHONE DIRECTORY, the fifth major department is included on white paper.
MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY
The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in un- biased terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as a manu- facturing 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 advertise- ments of Lowell.
THE LOWELL DIRECTORY LIBRARY
Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Lowell City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, for limited 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 busi- ness and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
R. L. POLK & CO. Publishers.
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LOWELL
"THE CITY OF DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES" (Courtesy of the Lowell Chamber of Commerce) ANDREW A. MCCARTHY, Manager Statistical Review
Form of Government: Plan E (P.R.) with City Manager.
Area: Fourteen and one-half square miles.
Altitude: 93.74 feet.
Assessed Valuation : $115,112,200.
Population: Approximately 93,876 (Urban)-140,426 (Standard Metropolitan Area). 1955 Census.
Predominating Nationalities in City: American, Irish, French and Greek. Parks: 56 with 275.809 acres. Valued at $1,554,325.
City Bonded Debt: $5,662,500.
Post Office Receipts : $1,215,972.
Telephones in Service: 37,041.
Church Buildings: Sixty.
Building and Construction: Value of permits $5,917,680 with 649 permits issued including new buildings and alterations (Year 1955).
Trade: Territory (Retail) serves 250,000 people within Lowell's trading area. Hotels: There are two hotels with total of 106 rooms.
City Served by: Eastern Massachusetts busses, Boston and Maine and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads and many interstate bus lines.
Amusements: Memorial Auditorium seats 4,000 people. There are five theatres, with a total seating capacity of approximately 6,300 people.
Hospitals: Six with 865 beds and 119 bassinets.
Education: Number of schools 31, including one high school and one voca- tional school. Number of pupils approximately 9,800. Total number of teachers 445. Value of public school property $5,465,540. There are approximately 9,400 pupils enrolled in the parochial schools.
Libraries: There are approximately 170,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage 227 with 117 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid 239 low pressure, 73 high pressure; of sewers 176.03. Ca- pacity of water works (municipal) total storage approximately 39,000,000 gallons, pumping capacity 11,000,000, daily average pump 8,000,000 gallons with 203 miles of mains. Total area of land owned for water supply purposes, 9,186,534 square feet.
Fire Department: Employs 230 men with 11 engines, 4 trucks, 1 protective and 11 station houses. Value of fire department property $436,900.
Police Department : Has 181 men, with 1 fixed radio station, KCA-861, station to cruising cars broadcasting system and 12 pieces of motor equipment. Radio Station: Lowell, a link in the national broadcasting chains through WLLH and WLLH-FM, WCAP and WOTW.
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LOWELL
Incorporated a town March 1, 1826; a city in 1836; the third city incorporated in Massachusetts
Lowell in the beginning of the 19th century was a village containing forty-five or fifty houses.
Lowell's natural advantages soon attracted artisans, as well as farmers. In 1796, the Pawtucket canal was built primarily for transportation purposes, but in 1820 it was har- nessed to furnish power to the textile mills beginning to flourish here. These cotton mills were built to supply cloth for the American trade, replacing that formerly imported from England.
In 1835 a steam railway was built, a necessity because of the growing importance of Lowell as a business center.
Lowell in Nation's History: Two Massachusetts governors resided here: General Benjamin F. Butler and Hon. Frederick T. Greenhalge. Among other Lowell citizens who have been pre-eminent in public affairs are Hon. Charles H. Allen, the first governor of Porto Rico and assistant secretary of Navy under President William Mckinley; Hon. Wil- liam A. Richardson, secretary in Grant's cabinet, Lucy Larcom, the poetess, and his Emin- ence William Cardinal O'Connell.
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