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The Cuttyhunk Ferry: "Alert" dockside at Pier 3.
The Wharfinger Building in the background was a busy place for the daily morning fish auction that could set the seafood prices nationally.
A dragger heads out to sea.
Remember 7UP?
Here's the bottling plant at Industrial Park
Chet Huntley - on a Fishing boat in New Bedford, Ma.
A 100ft (est) dragger dockside by the Elbrige Fish house. The New Bedford Storage Warehouse and
power company stack in background.
Construction underway of the New Bedford-Fairhaven Hurricane Barrier. The stacks of the New Bedford Gas Edison and Light and fuel tank are in the background.
The hustle and bustle of a New Bedford Downtown the way it used to be on a typical afternoon on Union Street 1964.
Looks like a Ford Falcon in the foreground parked to the right.
What appears to be the dragger "DEBBIE AND JO ANN" headed out. The bright orange dories above the wheelhouse were a common feature of the fishing vessels at the time.
Lumpers unload another catch.
Boston Nickel and Plating Co at Industrial Park. This was when things were still proudly "Made in The USA".
Mayor Edward F. Harrington, City Of New Bedford. Mayor Harrington was the youngest Mayor ever elected in the city's history. As a kid, I (M.L. Baron) recall visiting the Mayor many times with my grandfather who was politically active in the city. One time the Mayor gave me a shiny silver Benjamin Franklin 50 cent piece, at 7 years old I felt it was quite the honor!
An Ell Vee Dee Scallop truck passes by the Moby Dick.
On the way to Fairhaven headed for the Bridge. Judging by the heavy traffic, the bridge probably just closed after a boat passed through.
The car in the foreground looks like a Buick.
Chet Huntley - on a Fishing boat in New Bedford, Ma.
Mayor Edward F. Harrington, City Of New Bedford. Mayor Harrington was the youngest Mayor ever elected in the city's history. As a kid, I (M.L. Baron) recall visiting the Mayor many times with my grandfather who was politically active in the city. One time the Mayor gave me a shiny silver Benjamin Franklin 50 cent piece, at 7 years old I felt it was quite the honor!
