One of the major objectives of Urban Renewal in Bangor will be to provide suitable, safe, decent and sanitary housing in well-planned and maintained neighborhoods. The removal of substandard structures is not enough. Definite efforts must be made to raise the quality of living accommodations as well as the homemaking habits and aspirations of those segments of the population who now are living or formerly have lived in slum settings. A cooperative endeavor among public agencies, home builders, realtors, civic groups and others is involved. A Relocation Office will be established in the Stillwater Park Area to afford maximum accessibility to project site occupants. The office will be situated in a building slated for demolition in the final stage of the Relocation Program and will serve as a clearing house for information and service to site occupants. The Relocation Staff will work out of this office aiding in the social, psychological and physical adjustments required of families in their transition from one area of living, and one pattern of habits to another.

Your tax dollars provide: Eductation ... Recreation ... Welfare ... Sewere ... Sanitation ... Streets ... Parks ... Police ... Fire ... And many other services. Progress is our most important asset. When Bangor needs something done, business and civic leaders go to work. Successful united fund campaigns, neighborhood redevelopment projects, industrial park developments are examples of business and civic leaders working together on citizens committees for the good of the community. The willingness of Bangor citizens to assume their responsibilities assures a progressive outlook toward community development and a healthy climate for Bangor’s future growth.

Dear Mr. Businessman and Mr. Industrialist: We welcome your request for information on Bangor's facilities and services. In Bangor you will find space for growth and a willingness to assist new, as well as existing, industry. Many out-of-staters have found our City a good place in which to work and live the year around. The outdoor activities provided by the area's woods, mountains, lakes, streams, and coastaI waters is well known. People from other sections of the country have the erroneous idea that Maine is snow bound in winter. There was some truth to this beIief 50 years ago, but no more. Thanks to power ploughs and other modern snow removal equipment, we take winter in stride. A snow storm that would cripple a larger metropolitan area slows activities in Maine very little. The state's industrial climate is also good. The tax situation compares favorably with other states of northeastern United States. Also, this is true of labor management relatlonshlps. If you are associated with an industry that has plans to relocate, you might consider the Bangor area as a plant site. We welcome further inquiry and would be happy to provlde more specific details keyed to your needs. Thank you. Sincerely, Industrial Development Department

The Bangor Urban Renewal Authority of Bangor, Maine, was organized in August of 1958, making the year 1960 the second year of operation. This report reflecting its events for the past calendar year is in accordance with the By-laws of the Authority. It is the purpose of the Authority to deal directly with the Federal Government, through the Housing and Home Finance Agency on behalf of the City of Bangor for the partaking of Federal loans and grants to eliminate substandard, slum or blighted areas within the city. During the past year the Authority has met in twelve regular and three special sessions. All regular meetings were held on the second Tuesday of the month at 8:00 A.M. in the City Planning Office at City Hall and were open to the public.

This is the design for ‘59 ... Bangor’s year of destiny. The idea grew out of the thinking of a number of men who turned to Gordon W. Clapp, youthful public relations director of Bangor's daily newspaper. Clapp, soon to become chairman of the committee charged with working out a plan and effectuating it, picked up the ball and ran with it. The idea was simple--why not have a celebration honoring the 125th Anniversary of Bangor's incorporation as a city. Clapp started by calling together a group of civic-minded business men to discuss the thought and to "kick it around" and kick it around they did. The result wasn't just a plan for a celebration for one day, or a week or even a month--it was a gala, tremendous year-long celebration aimed at commemorating the City of Bangor's 125th birthday and providing the State of Maine and New England with the biggest promotion and fun filled event in their history.

An outline history of Bangor by the late Raymond Fellows, one time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Maine and President of the Bangor Historical Society, and by the the reference staff of the Bangor Public Library. Twenty-five still visible objects of historic interest. Twenty-five sites of historic objects no longer standing.

Just over two years ago one of those modern marvels of construction machinery, a backhoe, crooked its steel arm into the air near the Bangor City Hospital and dug its steel fingers into the earth. It was the first ground broken for Interstate highway construction in the Queen City. Today, 3/4 of a million yards of earth later (plus quantities of concrete, steel and gravel equally as astronomical in their proportions) traffic is humming over the broad four lane highway of the Industrial Spur from the Main Street interchange to Odlin Road. Traffic recorders are busily clicking off over 6000 vehicles a day. The Spur will not only "tap off" thousands of vehicles a day from Hammond and Union Streets and relieve congestion in the downtown area, it will also make Bangor's new industrial areas near the Spur attractive to firms seeking new and more functional quarters. A modern highway to serve these industrial areas ha-s been a dream of the city's progressive citizens a dozen years or more. Now that dream has been realized in rugged, long-lasting asphalt, steel and concrete.

For two and one-half years a group of Bangor area citizens worked as a cohesive committee planning, organizing and promoting a year-long program in observance of Bangor's 125th Anniversary as an incorporated city. The Anniversary Committee was formed in April 1957 and worked together through the Anniversary Year, 1959. The objectives of the celebration were to focus local, regional and national attention upon Bangor, attract tourists and visitors to our city and instill in our citizens a greater pride in the community. We feel these aims were met through a year's program of events, conventions and daily tourist attractions. However, this would not have been possible without the complete cooperation given the committee by all that were called upon for assistance. These include city and state officials, news media representatives, individuals from every type of business and professional organization , as well as hundreds of civic club members.

Why an industrial park for the city of Bangor? Modern Industrial management wants to avoid the inherent difficulties of city locations, parking, crowding and lack of growth space, and still maintain the advantages of a ready labor market and of transportation that the city provides. Space for one story plants, off street parking and loading, and future expansion are relatively impossible to find in any decent sized city. The large city is by its very nature a crowded, densely populated area. Only a planned industrial park site can offer management what it wants ...

The Bangor Real Estate Development Company: When the war ended in 1945, a wholesale grocer and a hardware jobber who were located in the downtown congested area of Bangor began looking for new sites for their warehouses. After surveying the entire area, they decided that the most desirable location was a tract of land about 2 1/2 miles from downtown Bangor, located on the main line of the railroad and on U. S. Route 2. The area consisted of a 260 acre farm. Since the interests of the two wholesalers coincided, they formed the Bangor Real Estate Development Company to purchase and develop the land. After the land was purchased, the real estate company, with the help of engineer and architects, lald out parcels of land in the part of the district that it would first develop. It drained part of the area, graded it, and installed roads, sewers, electricity, drainage facilities, and water...

Program includes building statistics, members of the Dedication Committee, and photographs. The Bangor Auditorium was designed by Eaton W. Tarbell Associates and built by Volpe Construction Company.

The central area street system which accommodates over 25,000 vehicles per day is the same as that which served Bangor in 1800 when the city's population consisted of 277 inhabitants. The basic pattern of highways in Bangor was established 150 years ago, more than a hundred years before the automobile came into popular use. As the layout of streets suggests, all routes were intended to bring traffic into the center of the city. The central area of the city has been confined in extent by practical limitations since 1800. Automobile usage in the city has increased at a rate as to have doubled itself in the last decade. The development of an adequate highway network in and around Bangor has manifestly lagged far behind the needs of the present-day automobile users.

The Bangor Planning Ordinance, which was adopted by the City Council in 1948, provided for a Planning Board, which was to "make and adopt a Master Plan of the city." This report briefly describes the Board's recommendations for a Master Plan. After a public hearing and possible revision, the plan may be officially adopted by the Board. Thereafter it will become a guide to the future recommendations of the Board for the improvement and development of Bangor. This plan is not a fixed or final plan. It must be changed and added to from time to time as changing conditions dictate. In this respect the Board hopes that the people of Bangor will offer suggestions to improve the plan. The continual constructive criticisms and ideas of the citizens of Bangor are needed to make planning effective.

Summary of the Report: The following report is a condensation of a more complete Schools, Parks and Recreation Report which is on file in the Planning Office. It indicates the preliminary ideas of the Planning Board on parts of the Master Plan. Briefly the report discusses the following subjects: 1) The need and the location of future elementary schools. 2) The coordination of school play areas with city recreation areas. 3) The need and the location of future recreation facilities such as playfields, playgrounds, parks of all types, indoor facilities, swimming pools, and other special facilities These are tentative ideas. This report is published so that all the people of Bangor will be able to express their opinions before these ideas are adopted as parts of the Bangor Master Plan.

Summary of the Report: This report on the Street Plan discusses: 1) the need for street planning. 2) the ideal street system and its comparison with Bangor. 3) the Tentative Street Plan for new streets, wider streets, and other street improvements. 4) the methods of supporting the Street Plan with an Official Map and Subdivision Regulations. This report is condensed from a complete report on streets which is on file in the Planning Office. The ideas put forth are those which the Planning Board are studying before adopting them as parts of the Master Plan. The criticisms of the citizens of Bangor are invited.

Scrapbook containing photographs, event flyers, newspaper clippings, programs, and newsletters documenting activities of the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine in the early 1990s. Primarily focuses on peace demonstrations, marches, and other actions related to the Persian Gulf War.

An act to grant a new charter to the City of Bangor, Penobscot County, State of Maine, repealing all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine, as follows: Article 1. Rights of the City. Section 1. The inhabitants of the City of Bangor, in the County of Penobscot. shall continue to be a body politic and corporate by the name of the City of Bangor, and as such shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers, privileges and franchises and be subject to all the duties and obligations now appertaining to or incumbent upon said city as a municipal corporation ...

Theater program for a May 1968 production of the musical Finian's Rainbow performed by the Bangor Savoyards. Lists cast for the production. Contains many advertisements for businesses in the area.

Black and white map showing the planned location of the New Upland water supply for the city of Bangor, Maine. Map shows location of water tank, existing pipelines, and pumping stations .

Foreword: Congregation Beth Israel, the oldest synagogue in the State of Maine, this year celebrates its 75th anniversary. This is the story of Beth Israel--of the men and women who shaped its character--of the influences which patterned its destiny--of the spirit which has brought it through crises in the past and which must be trusted to preserve it in the future. In the aggregate, this chronicle is a review of the Congregation's struggles, hopes and accomplishments. It is not meant to be a distinguished historical contribution nor a detailed chronological summary of the seventy-five years it covers. Instead, by selecting the more significant and human episodes in our growth, we hope to present a colorful pageant of the modest epic which is our history.

Souvenir program for the 1957 Class L Eastern Maine Basketball Tournament, showing team photos, team rosters, and advertisments for Bangor businesses. Teams in the tournament were Old Town, Fairfield, Bangor, Waterville, Stearns, Houlton, Gardiner, and Caribou.

23 years of service--$45,000--82,000 hours--Into the hands of the community! Did You Know? That the League members work in many agencies and not just on League Projects? Here is a partial list of them ... The League Makes No Profit! Every dollar raised by the League in Bangor is given back to Bangor through help to agencies, donations to other civic organizations, and projects from which the City will benefit. Our own expenses are paid for completely by the annual dues of our League members. Trains--Members for Responsible Citizenship. A new member is trained to fulfill the object of the Junior League of Bangor--"to foster interest in its members in the social, economic, educational, cultural, and civic conditions of their community and to make efficient their volunteer service." She is required to take a provisional training course which is given by competent lay and professional leaders. A new member learns that the Junior League idea is not confined to Bangor but that Bangor is only one of 182 Junior Leagues. These Leagues are banded together in the Association of Junior Leagues of America.

Program for a volunteer recognition event and open house at the Bangor USO Club. Lists individuals and organizations receiving USO Distinguished Service Certificates.

Preface: When first asked to write a record of the work of the Crusade during the twenty-two years of its existence, it seemed almost an impossibility, as I had only been connected with the organization for a few years and felt myself utterly incompetent to attempt it; but through the kindness of older members, especially the officers who had been connected with it from its first meeting, and the very excellent annual reports of former secretaries, I trust that I have been enabled to give to my readers a partial idea of the work accomplished by the temperance workers of our city and also of some of the obstacles encountered during that work. May the time speedily come when temperance will hold its proper place in the minds of all citizens having the good of the common wealth at heart, and when our fair city shall no longer be disgraced by over two hundred open rum shops, a stumbling block indeed to our fathers, husbands and sons.