More citizens from Rockport, Massachusetts, make it into DOCUMERICA. Here are some school kids singing the Star-spangled Banner at Rockport Elementary School. Taken by Deborah Parks in February 1973.
Do any of these kids look familiar?
We learned about Gene Shorty Lesch in yesterday’s post. Here’s a photograph of the outside of his pewter shop in the Bearskin Neck area of Rockport.
Original caption: Sunday tourists at The Weathervane pewter shop owned by Rockport’s harbor master. Bearskin Neck at Rockport, 2/1973. Photograph by Deborah Parks
Is the Weathervane pewter shop still operating in Rockport?
Two photographs of Gene “Shorty” Lesch, pewtersmith and harbor master, Rockport, Mass., February 1973, working in his shop in the Bearskin Neck Section of Rockport.
Let’s try to find out more about Shorty Lesch!
Here’s an obituary for Gene Shorty Lesch.
This man is identified as “Worker with the Rockport Public Works Department”. Photograph by Deborah Parks, February 1973.
Can you identify this Rockport, Mass., citizen?
The original caption for this February 1973 Deborah Parks photograph describes him as the “Local Cil Delivery Man” at Poole’s Rexall Drugstore” in Rockport, Massachusetts. Can anyone help me identify this man? I be the folks at the local Rockport Historical Society might be able to help!
The Little Fish Shack Which Refused to Go Away.
Do you know the unusual name for this iconic structure in Rockport Harbor, Massachusetts? Rockport Harbor has been the setting of several movies, including the 2009 Sandra Bullock film, The Proposal, where it stood in for Sitka, Alaska! In 1957 and 1958, it was the setting for the television show Harbourmaster starring Barry Sullivan. Still can’t guess the name of the red building on the pier? Not too many folks can, but I’ll guess that any serious student of art or art history can name the building seen here.
The popular red structure is called Motif #1. Why? Because it has been painted, sketched, drawn and photographed so many times over the years, it simply became known as Motif #1. Also known as Motif Number 1, and as The Little Fish Shack Which Refused to Go Away.
I love all things “coastal”, so this image is in my DOCUMERICA Top 25! Deborah Parks snapped this photograph for DOCUMERICA in February 1973. Enjoy!
