Rail kids

By Terry Economy

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• Recalling the 1940s

  By Terry Economy - Dec 01
  Train to Boston In the 1940s, my mother, sister and I took the train to Boston at least three times a year to visit our aunt and uncle who lived ...
  

• Three vignettes

  By Terry Economy - Jul 14
  Watching people One of my favorite pastimes is watching people. During my profession I have the opportunity to meet and deal with all kinds of ...
  
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  First airplane ride

  By Terry Economy - Feb 11
  There are some things in life as an adult you can remember from when you were a youngster. Like your first something. I can remember my first ...
  

• The circus, summer of '42

  By Terry Economy - Aug 27
  The summer of 1942, World War II had come to Rockland. Some of our boys had already enlisted in the armed services, others would soon be drafted ...
  

• Goolo's Christmas

  By Terry Economy - Dec 25
  When I was young, there lived in Rockland an old Albanian man called Goolo. His real name was James Christo. Goolo was a handyman for dirty jobs ...
  

• Memories from Economy's Fruit Store

  By Terry Economy - Aug 30
  When I was 10 years old, World War II was coming to a end. VE day on May 8, VJ day on Sept. 5. I had three older bothers who were in service. ...
  

• The Vanilla Kid

  By Terry Economy - Jun 06
  During the 1940s there was a shoreline area in Rockland called the "Jungle." The jungle stretched from in back of the former Hotel Rockland all ...
  
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  Rockland's youngest soda jerk

  By Terry Economy - Mar 08
  The Maine Central Railroad station in Rockland is a historic site where it still stands today, but for my generation, it is a rail station with ...
  

• Christmas 1945

  By Terry Economy - Dec 19
  I am one of the diminishing generation of children who grew up during World War II, and 1945 was a year I will not forget. Let me explain: I was ...
  
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  Last train to Portland

  By Terry Economy - Sep 19
  On April 4,1959 the last passenger train left the Maine Central Railroad Station in Rockland to Portland at 8 a.m. The Maine Central Railroad had ...
  

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  Lobster roll

  By Terry Economy - Aug 04
  I have been doing research on the creation of the first lobster roll in Rockland. This is what I have discovered. I remember as a 10-year-old boy ...
  

• How Dick Curless came to Rockland

  By Terry Economy - May 05
  In 1957, I joined the Maine Air National Guard at Dow Air Base in Bangor. Part of my six-year enlistment was to spend 12 weeks of basic training ...
  

• My favorite Christmas

  By Terry Economy - Dec 24
  Christmas of 1945 will always be special with me and my memories. World War II was over and my three older brothers, Richard, James and Christy, ...
  

• Narragansett beer wagon

  By Terry Economy - Feb 26
  It was 1943, World War II was upon us and the citizens of Rockland were becoming accustomed to that dirty word "rationing." Certain food items ...
  

• Pearl Harbor

  By Terry Economy - Dec 04
  December 7, 1941, a day of infamy, as the president at that time, Franklin Roosevelt, called it during his speech to Congress in declaring war on ...
  

• Little boy in the truck

  By Terry Economy - Jul 19
  From the 1930s to right before World War II, Economy's Fruit had a delivery truck that would deliver fruit and produce on a weekly basis to the ...
  

• Rockland's taxi cabs

  By Terry Economy - May 04
  The year was 1942, World War II was upon the citizens of Rockland. That summer, gasoline rationing started and it caused havoc on those who owned ...
  

• We are at war

  By Terry Economy - Jan 30
  I am one of the diminishing generation of children who grew up during World War II. 1943 was the second year of WWII between Japan and Germany. ...
  

• Caravan of Gypsies visits Rockland

  By Terry Economy - Dec 04
  It was not uncommon to have Gypsies visit Rockland during the 1930s to 1940. During the summer of 1940, a small caravan of Gypsies appeared on ...
  
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  Remembering John Brown

  By Terry Economy - Aug 08
  In the fall of 1947, family friend and part-time employee John Brown started to work at Economy's Fruit full-time. He had been employed at Eastern ...