Maine Places to Love: Bayside

“Many of Portland’s most prominent figures in business, industry, politics and the professions grew up as residents of a Bayside with tree-lined streets and open trolley cars,” a 1968 City of Portland neighborhood report noted. Today, Bayside is undergoing “an energetic transformation … into a first-rate, mixed-use urban district … with a wide range of housing development" (portlandmaine.gov) whose attractions include craft breweries and restaurants, music and theater, galleries, trails – and, of course, a landmark ten-pin bowling alley.

Art Deco Gem: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Schlotterbeck & Foss building (1927) at 117 Preble St. was designed by John Calvin Stevens and his son, John Howard Stevens. (wikipedia)
From 11-4 on 11/24: At Fork Food Lab, 72 Parris St., 15 members will be selling goods from hot sauce to macaroons at the Small Business Saturday Market. (forkfoodlab.com)
c. 1856: The Grace restaurant building was originally the Chestnut Street United Methodist Church, the creation of Portland architect Charles Alexander. (www.restaurantgrace.com)
WLCC No. 818: The Miss Portland Diner on Marginal Way is a classic Worcester diner, handcrafted by the Worcester Lunch Car Company in 1949.
20 Lanes: Of ten-pin bowling are offered at United States Bowling Congress-sanctioned Bayside Bowl, 58 Alder St. (baysidebowl.com)
Hue History: One of the nation’s oldest schools (1821), Portland High adopted its blue-and-white colors in 1894-95. (Peter Gribbin, Portland High historian)
200 Years Ago: Bayside was “Portland’s second seaport” (wiki). Until early in the 20th century, two wharves, Clapp’s and Gould’s, extended into Back Cove.
Maine Crafts Consort: Rising Tide, at 103 Fox St., is one of five Maine craft breweries that L.L. Bean has partnered with in its Bean Boots and Brews collaboration. (risingtidebrewing.com)
2,000 Hockey Sticks: Or thereabouts, are in stock at Play It Again Sports, which opened in Bayside in 1993.

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