I wish I could have climbed up on someones roof to get the NOW photo.
See Fred’s comments and Link to Thorwald Hotel.
THEN and NOW – Atlantic and Harbor Road
My View of Life on the Dock
My View of Life on the Dock
I wish I could have climbed up on someones roof to get the NOW photo.
See Fred’s comments and Link to Thorwald Hotel.
Good Morning Gloucester 
It appears that the older photo was taken from an upper floor of the Thorwald Hotel. I have a photo if you’d like to post it.
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That’s my house! Tanglemoor (its name then and now), built for Daniel Chauncey Brewer, Esq., in 1904. I bought it (a remuddled tear-down that had once belonged to the Thorwald Hotel across the street) in 1992 and restored it with reference to that very postcard. It was a souvenir postcard of Bass Rocks, ca. 1910, and the image was indeed taken from the five-story tower of the hotel. No trees back when it was all moorland!
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This photo is from an original photograph, from one of your neighbors, that I tried to restore, perhaps the postcard is from the same source.
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The house on the corner use to belong to Bill and Lucille Scenna as far back as I can remember and was eventually put up for sale after Lucille passed. Bill Scenna help design and build the first refrigeration units for the fisheries in Gloucester. They were a lovely couple and I will miss them. I hate that the house was remodeled, if thats the case, because Bill did all the work himself and I thought the house had character. Especially the area where the bar was.
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Prior to “Uncle Bill” marrying Lucille, the home belonged to he and his first wife, my mother’s aunt Unilla (Nella). My siblings and cousins have fond memories of spending summers there back in the 50’s & 60’s, and playing on the boulder that was nearly part of the kitchen. Our parents would put the camper in the side yard which was a separate house lot but part of his property.When I was a child, the porch on the right in the front had no railing whatsoever (I should know, I fell off it once and Auntie Nella was so angry that Uncle Bill never put up the railings!). We used to love to open the kitchen door in the back (right) of the house and immediately climb up the rocks to eat breakfast (the rocks touched the house in several locations). Bill was a fabulous banjo picker and square dancer and I still have a ships wheel from one of his fishing boats. He taught me how to play poker when I was about 7, I think.
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Fun. Fred please post the hotel image.
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Sorry, I can’t post myself to GMG (yet), but I’ll send it to Joey.
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Fred, you can send it to me at GMGMANNY@GMAIL.COM, then I can post it myself.
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