![]() Right photo from Eisenhower visit in 1955. Sold to Town of Pittsfield in 1977, and opened as Pittsfield Community Theatre. Originally opened in 1915 as Leger’s Theatre. The name of the restaurant at this site from 1998 to 2002. Located on Middle Street, across from Hathorn Park. Closed, two story wooden building torn down in to make room for drive-up window at Merrill Bank. “Dick” Berry, purchased the business in 1971 from Donald Humphrey who had purchased it from Dick’s father. See ad on pages 36 in Loder’s 1907 Souvenir of Pittsfield ME. Berry operated the store as Libby’s Pharmacy. No longer in business (moved out of town).Ĭhain department store, opened in May, 1981, in Somerset Plaza. His son David Welch has a seasonal ice cream shop there now (2005).ġ7 Main Street. Located on Main Street at corner of Central Street. See ad on page 41 in AJ Loder’s 1907 Souvenir of Pittsfield ME.Ĭlosed. Located on North Main Street “on the island”. Sold to Town & Country Realtors which then moved into Green Apple location (67 Main St.) in fall of 2004.īlacksmithing and jobbing. Pittsfield starts on page 70.ĭwayne Ames. mills all over the US as of 1920, including four mills in Pittsfield. Also see the Woolen Mills Photo Page and this complete list of American Woolen Co. In 1914 Pioneer was bought by American Woolen. A view of the Pioneer Woolen Mill (right photo). After 1945, American Woolen began closing the mills one after the other until eventually in 1953 it closed its last mill in Pittsfield, the flagship Pioneer Woolen Mill. By the early 1900’s all of Pittsfield’s woolen mills had fallen on hard times, and the American Woolen Co. Loder’s 1907 Souvenir of Pittsfield ME on page 45 and page 62 and other pages.Ħ Somerset Avenue, a home-based business, operated by Robert Simpkins. Loder, and included a photographic studio, florist shop, boots, shoes and rubbers shop, and offered water colors, crayon sketches, picture framing and bedding plants and cut flowers from their 150′ x 24′ greenhouse. Loder block housed the businesses of both A. Located at 11 Central Street, across from the Depot, the A.J. See ad on page 2 of the April 1882 Pittsfield Advertiser Cornforth building remains standing after the fire of 1881. I then downloaded version 1.03 of the radioSHARK application for Mac OS X, and version 1.1.6.0 for Windows XP, installed them, and was on my way.A.H. I have gotten into the habit of ignoring installation CDs for products like this, preferring instead to check online for the latest versions. Shaped like a shark fin, it has three curved plastic panels in the side that light up when the unit is plugged in. It is a very cool-looking device, to boot. Along with the radioSHARK receiver came an installation CD and a *gasp* printed manual. There is a single, 4ft-long white USB cable emanating from the rear of the unit. It is a semi-glossy white plastic with a metal base. The unit itself measures about 7-1/2in x 4in x 2in. The radioSHARK was smaller than I had imagined. Finally, it appeared on the market in late 2004, and Griffin was kind enough to send us a review unit. However, like so many new products, release dates kept slipping and slipping. I could also listen to the radio play-by-play of the Chicago Bears on my Mac (instead of putting up with the insipid TV commentary so prevalent these days) while watching the broadcast in another window. I was thinking the radioSHARK would be the perfect product for me to record shows that I so often miss: This American Life, The World, and Prairie Home Companion on NPR, and Mac, Jurko, and Harry on the sports-talker. When working in my office at home, I often have NPR or the local sports-talk station (WMVP ESPN Radio1000) tuned on my cheap, ten-dollar radio. It supports any PC or Mac with a free USB port on Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.2.8 or 10.3.įrom the time I first heard about it, I wanted one. It cannot be used to listen to satellite radio or broadcasts streamed over the Internet. ![]() It can timeshift live recordings, be set to regularly record a program, or simply used to listen to live radio on either the AM and FM band. The basic premise of the radioSHARK is this: TiVo for radio. Griffin also makes a whole host of accessories for the iPod as well as the iCurve laptop stand. ![]() I never got much use out of it, but I thought it was one of the coolest-looking products with its brushed-metal surface and pulsing purple light. I owned one of their PowerMates for quite some time. Griffin Technology has been known for coming out with cool accessories. The radioSHARK from Griffin Technology falls into that category for the second reason. Sometimes it?s because of the styling, other times because of the functionality it promises. System requirements: USB 1.1 port, Windows XP, Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higherĮvery so often a product comes out that catches the eye. Manufacturer: Griffin Technology ( product page)
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