133 20 8493 https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/78c3473c551d81ce13f600bc5ec54060.jpg e17c56cc6b702d6d0b5274795640c702 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Paper; 1.5" x 2.5". Storage Location in the archive AB82 SU4-3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sweet Caporal Cigarette Card Description An account of the resource This was a type of card given with a pack of cigarettes circa 1890. Sweet Caporal cigarettes sold for $.05 a pack of ten. A smoker had to keep inhaling on them or they would go out; not like the type today that burn down to the end. The picture is labelled Mlle. 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Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo prints Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 3.5 x 5.5 in.; two 8 x 10 in. copies Storage Location in the archive PB50 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource View of Maynard from Summer Hill - ca 1900 Description An account of the resource The three story building in the center foreground is the Old Central House and is still standing. The two story house third from the right is the original Main Street School built in 1857 by the town of Sudbury. It was moved in 1902 to make way for the brick Main Street School, now the location of the Town Building. 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Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo prints Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. Three 3.5 x 4.5 in. prints; three 4 x 5 in. prints; two 8 x 10 in. enlargements Storage Location in the archive PB57 SU18-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. A. Haynes Co. Lumber Sign Description An account of the resource On a building at the corner of Nason and Acton Street. The sign is now in the Historical Societies archive. See newspaper article published in April 1993. 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Title A name given to the resource The Co-operative Associations of Maynard Description An account of the resource Artifacts, photographs and documents from the various co-operatives that operated in Maynard from the 1870's to the 1970's. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Collection Manager (Maynard Historical Society) Lenny Palmer (Maynard Historical Society) Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Drawing 12x18in Storage Location in the archive DB1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Storage Location in the archive AB82 SU4-3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Stop Watch Description An account of the resource This stop watch was used by the Tarmo Ac. C. to start the famous six-mile race of the 1930's, which was reactivated for the Maynard Centennial in 1971. An inscription on the back says W. & U.P. Tarmo. Maynard,Mass. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Tempus. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Ernest Jarvi. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1999.848 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 2" x 3". 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. <h2>LOVELL's BUS LINES - THIRTY YEARS IN MAYNARD</h2> <h3>A Brief History</h3> John F. Lovell is born in Plymouth, MA in 1858. He leaves school at age nine to work in a Plymouth nail factory. From eleven until twenty-one, he works on a relative’s farm in Carver, MA. At age 20, while living in Carver and listing his occupation as peddler, he marries Mary C. Burgess of Plymouth. She is eighteen. Soon after their marriage, the couple move to Plymouth and John works in a shoe factory. His career and life from that age to the post WW I years are recounted in materials contained in the Historical Society’s Collection. In 1918, Lovell (now age sixty and a life-long entrepreneur) is living in Woburn. He acquires a jitney bus, begins operations in Woburn and over the next several years develops his Woburn and Reading Bus Company into a small regional operation. He sells the company in 1922. In January of 1923, at age sixty-five, he forms Lovell’s Bus Company and purchases the former Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway trolly barn in Maynard. From that site, he begins bus operations along some of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway routes. [The Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway Company begins operations in August 1901 and ceases operations in January 1923. The history of that street railway company and its routes is told well in “Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railway”, by O. R. Cummings, published 1967.] It appears that John Lovell moves to Maynard around 1923 when he begins his bus operation. He acquires one or more properties near the bus company’s car barn, and a loop road near the car barn is named Lovell’s Court. He and his wife Mary purchase and live in a house near Lovell’s Court at 69 Great Road. Initially, John Lovell operates his bus company under the trade name of Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line. However, he abandons that name at the end of 1924 as his bus routes now expand beyond those three towns. Already, Lovell’s Bus Company employs fourteen people and operates eleven buses and two taxis. Over the next fifteen years or so John Lovell acquires numerous properties in Maynard, mostly multi-family homes. Records show that at least some of these are rented to his employees. At the same time, he expands his bus operations. In 1932, he acquires the White Bus Company routes. He operates that route structure as the Weymouth Division of Lovell’s Bus Company while operating the balance of his company’s routes as the Maynard Division. Lovell buses run an extensive regional system, including: (a) east through Concord, Bedford and Lexington to Arlington, Cambridge and Watertown; (b) southeast to Sudbury, Wayland, Weston and Waltham; and (c) northwest to Acton, Stow, Hudson, Clinton, and Leominster. As the Depression deepens during the 1930’s life gets harder, including for John Lovell and his employees. At some point, Lovell asks his employees to give back an earlier wage increase. It appears they do. But by 1934, employee-management relations at Lovell’s Bus Company are souring, and the Lovell’s employees vote to form a union. As reported in the Maynard News of September 14, 1934, John Lovell (represented by attorney Alfred McLeary) claims to have no knowledge of union organizing activity, insists he has been a generous employer, and he refuses to recognize the union. At the time, Lovell is paying his employees $4 a day, and the workday is apparently about nine to hours. Employee and management relations remain unsettled during the next few years. And then in May of 1937 disagreements culminate in a four-day strike. The Maynard Enterprise for May 7, 1937 reports that while the employees wanted 70 cents an hour and an eight-hour day, the settlement is for 60 cents an hour (a 5 cent an hour increase) and a nine-hour day. In addition, John Lovell formally recognizes the Amalgamated Association of Railway and Streetcar Workers (an AFL affiliate) as representing his workers. As was the case during earlier employee-management disputes, John Lovell is represented by Alfred McLeary. By 1939, Lovell’s Bus Company reports owning 63 buses, and it announces plans to purchase more. John Lovell is now in his early eighties, and he has acquired through the Lovell Bus Company a portfolio of properties in Maynard. Perhaps in order to finance the expansion of his operations, in 1939 he liquidates all or most of those investments. The MHS has in its collection a 1939 auction notice for the sale by Lovell’s Bus Company of twenty-four residential properties in Maynard, including the Lorenzo Maynard home on Dartmouth Street. Throughout WW II, Lovell’s maintains operations, including through the difficulties of gasoline-rationing and younger employees being subject to the draft or electing to enlist. Then, with the war nearly won, In April 1945 John Lovell dies at age eighty-seven. The war in Europe ends a month later. It ends in the Pacific in August. Masses of young men and women begin to return to civilian life. Following John Lovell’s death, operations at the bus company are taken over by one of John Lovell’s grandsons. However, like all for-profit, regional bus companies, Lovell’s struggles to compete with the post WW II explosive growth of private car ownership and the build out of highways. In 1947, Lovell’s Bus Company sells its Weymouth Division, a set of routes and a collection of buses. The core of this sale appears to be the old White Bus Company purchased by Lovell’s in 1934. The purchaser is Hudson Bus Lines which was founded around 1932. Lovell’s Bus Company retains its Maynard Division. The sale of the Weymouth Division is not enough to save Lovell’s Bus Company. After six more years of severe economic challenges, Lovell’s Bus Company ceases operations. Based on an August 27, 1953 article in the Maynard Enterprise, operations cease in the spring of that year. With the company’s demise it appears that all its routes are discontinued, with the following two exceptions. A bus route between Maynard, Stow and Hudson operates for some years under the name Maynard Bus Service. The August 27, 1953 article noted above suggests the operation commences in the fall of 1953. The business is owned and operated by Maynard native Joe Mancini and his family. This new bus operation has evolved from a taxi service operated by Joe Mancini and named ‘G.I. Joe Taxi.’ It appears that Mancini’s bus service ceases operations in 1958. The Lovell’s bus route from Maynard, through West Concord to Concord is taken over by The Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company, which despite its name ran its last streetcars in 1930. From and after 1930, the Middlesex and Boston operates only buses. In 1972, the Middlesex and Boston bus operations are subsumed into the MBTA. <h3>The MHS Lovell’s Collection as of Early 2026</h3> The following summarizes as of early 2026 the Maynard Historical Society’s collection of material relating to Lovell’s Bus Company and its informal successor the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Company.   Note: You can access these items by clicking on the "Lovell Bus" tag in the sidebar. The collection includes: <ol> <li>Numerous bus tickets and passes</li> <li>Full page and partial page newspaper ads from late 1941 for Lovell’s that give the following two timetables (i) Arlington to Leominster and to Maynard and on to South Acton and West Acton, and (ii) Lexington to Watertown through Arlington, Belmont and Waverly</li> <li>A Maynard to Waltham (through Sudbury, Wayland and Weston) timetable dated October 1942</li> <li>A Maynard to Harvard Square timetable dated April 1950</li> <li>An undated Maynard to Hudson Timetable with the phone number for chartering buses given as TWinoaks 7-2623 (the phone number dates this to circa mid-1950’s)</li> <li>A twenty page 1925 brochure offering a two night-three day bus tour of New Hampshire’s White Mountains; the cost being $27.50 per person which includes transportation, two nights’ accommodation, meals and guided tours (the brochure is described in detail at the end of this memo</li> <li>An operator’s daily report</li> <li>Several pictures of Lovell buses</li> <li>A photocopy of a menu from Maynard’s Twin Trees Café on Maynard’s Powder Mill Road that reprints the bus schedule (the menu notes the café’s phone number as 191, and a three digit number dates the menu to pre-1955)</li> <li>Photocopies of several 1920’s-1930’s articles as to John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Company</li> <li>A copy of Maynard Memories, issue 20 from September – October of 2003, that reprints an article about John Lovell that first appeared in the Maynard High School paper The Screech Owl in 1939. That 1939 article is the source for some of the above.</li> <li>A ‘Report on the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line,’ prepared by Cyrus Hosmer, Jr. and Walter Henry Ridley of Concord MA., dated December 12, 1924. The Report was prepared for John Lovell at a time when the unofficial name for Lovell Bus Company was ‘The Concord, Maynard and Hudson Bus Line.’ The Report summarizes the first ten months of Lovell’s operations and offers a strategy for growing the company and improving its operations and financial performance. The Report itself is an interesting early example of the emerging practice of business consulting. The fact that John Lovell paid for such a report speaks to his entrepreneurship and willingness to experiment. For those interested in snapshot looks at life in 1924, the Report offers brief but intimate portraits of Concord Junction, Maynard, Stow, Gleasondale, Hudson, Berlin, South Action and West Acton as of that date.</li> </ol> The MHS collection also includes items not related to Lovell’s Bus Company but rather related to, or that appear to be related to, bus routes through Maynard after Lovell’s ceases operations early in 1953: <ol> <li>There are two schedules for Middlesex and Boston buses that run a route from Maynard through Concord, Bedford Airport, Lexington and on to either Harvard Square or Arlington Heights. The schedules are dated September 1966 and May 1969.</li> <li>Several undated commutation tickets for the Middlesex & Boston Street Railway Company. It is unknown whether these tickets were for use on buses or were for use on the trollies run by the Middlesex and Boston up to about 1930. A 1912 map on Wikipedia Commons of the Middlesex and Boston trolly lines shows a line west from Bedford through Concord and then to Maynard and on to Berlin and Marlborough. Further research is necessary to properly identify these tickets. </li> </ol> The twenty-page brochure as to a White Mountains tour noted above is dated 1925 at page 5. It promotes and describes a Lovell’s Bus Company tour titled ‘Lovell’s White Mountain Tours,’ The brochure was mailed with a one and half cent President Warren G. Harding stamp (first issued in 1925) but with no addressee. The lack of an addressee indicates that the brochure was mailed as general advertising. The brochure contains numerous half-tone photos, including photos of several famous White Mountain hotels and of Lovell’s fleet headquarters in Maynard. The brochure was printed by Murphy &. Synder of Maynard. As for that printing firm, Alpert Murphy and John Snyder start their business in 1917. In 1957, the business relocates to the corner of Waltham and Parker Streets in Maynard into a one-story building constructed in 1936 for the United Co-Operative Society. Murphy & Snyder cease operations in 2003. As of early 2026, the building at Waltham and Parker Streets retains the old Murphy & Snyder signage. Storage Location in the archive VF72 Lovell Bus Lines folder SU20-2 Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Typed 8.5 x 11 in. paper Six pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A History of the Lovell Bus Line Description An account of the resource After the closure of the Concord, Maynard, and Hudson Street Railway a bus line was started by John Lovell in 1923 and it continued into the 1950s. This monograph details the history of John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Lines in Maynard. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Terry Jones Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Terry Jones Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2026.61 Lovell Lovell Bus monograph transportation Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. H. H. Scott, Inc.- A Brief History of Its Maynard Years by Terry Jones - May 2026 The company is founded in 1947 in Cambridge, MA. by Hermon Hosmer Scott, born 1909, with a BA from MIT and a doctorate from the Lowell Institute. He will be awarded over one hundred patents, primarily in the field of electronics.  In 1957, Scott moves his company into a new facility at 111 Powder Mill Road, Maynard, as noted in History of Maynard, 1871-1971, published 1971 by the Maynard Historical Committee. “In 1957, the firm … became the first major industry in many years to build its own plant in Maynard. The ultra-modern quarters are situated on a fifteen acre plot of land on Powder Mill Road.” Victor H. Pomper, an MIT grad who joins the company in 1950, is named President sometime in the 1960’s. The company is a leader in high fidelity sound, and it continually innovates to meet the market. It develops and sells tuners (which are AM and FM radio receivers), amplifiers and speakers and packages them with turntables, speakers and if desired with wood cabinetry designed by Scott. Scott also manufactures tape decks and sound level meters for industrial use. It offers compact stereos with stand-alone speakers. Some products are sold in kits for buyer assembly. The Wikipedia entry for the company notes the company’s many innovations.  The 1957 move to Maynard is made because the company is growing, and it continues to grow. In 1960 the company takes additional space in the Maynard Industrial Park, an expansion that coincides with a glowing article in the May 1960 edition of the Atlantic, written by John Conly. Conly actually tours the Maynard facility on Powder Hill Road for his article. And after extolling Scott the man and Scott products, Conly describes what he sees. “My guide was Victor Pomper … All the pleasant ladies with their soldering irons called him Vic, and he knew all their first names too. What this means … is that living room listeners do not get H. H. Scott FM tuners or preamplifiers with fractured cold-solder joints. The things work and keep working because they were made with devotion and … pride.” It seems very likely that Conly is right as to devotion and pride, and a quality workforce and constant product innovation pay off for H. H. Scott. In 1967 the company builds an addition on the Powder Mill Road plant that substantially increases the size of the company’s facility. [From History of Maynard 1871-1971 at page 52.] The 1967 addition comes around the time of the company’s peak sales and presumably its peak profits. In 1968, Scott’s sales top $15 million, a figure reported in a 1972 Maynard Beacon article. $15 million dollars in 1968 is roughly equivalent to $140 million in 2026.  While the year 1968 is big for H. H. Scott, it is also big for the musicians whose new records are being played on Scott turntables. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour goes to number 1.  Richard Harris releases Macarthur’s Park. Simon and Garfunkel release Mrs. Robinson. Otis Redding gives the country The Dock of the Bay. The Box Tops, The Fifth Dimension, Sly and the Family Stone, The Temptations, James Brown, the Rolling Stones, The Supremes, Cream, The Bee-Gees, Steppenwolf, the Animals, Credence Clearwater Revival, Dione Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, and many more all have big hits. In theaters, Space Odyssey, Bullitt, Rosemary’s Baby and Planet of the Apes hit the big screen. Hair and The Great White Hope dazzle on Broadway for very different reasons. On television, folks love Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Mayberry RFD and Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. But outside of entertainment, in 1968 America faces a series of tragedies and controversies. The U. S. takes almost 3,000 casualties at the Battle of Khe Sanh. Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. The Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, and the U. S. stands by and watches. The U. S. Supreme Court rules that burning a draft card is not free speech. The U. S. Olympic Committee sanctions Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos for making a black power salute at the Mexico Olympics. And tragedy or not - Nixon defeats Humphrey on an alleged plan to end the war in Vietnam.  If the year 1968 was a mixed blessing for the country, it was the same for H. H. Scott. While for over twenty years the company has been an innovative leader in offering high fidelity sound, and while 1968 sees peak sales, the company now faces brutal competitive pressures. A Maynard Beacon article from the spring of 1968 is headlined “H. H. Scott Denies Rumors It Will Close.” In the article, Victor Pomper, Scott’s President, acknowledges a business slowdown and attributes it to “an inflationary recession courtesy of the U. S. Government….”  The Beacon article notes that Scott’s headcount is down from about seven hundred to about five hundred. However, Pomper denies rumors that Scott will close. “We are in a little slump as who isn’t, but we are only running about seven percent behind, and we hope to make that up during the summer months.”  Pomper attributes Scott’s troubles to Japanese competition, adding that Scott is suing several Japanese firms for patent infringement. Pomper is correct about Japanese competition, and it will soon get much worse. While the fully developed ‘Japan Inc’ is still a decade or more away, Pomper and many of H. H. Scott’s employees no doubt see, and must recoil at, the Time magazine cover of May 10, 1971, titled: “How to Cope With Japan’s Business Invasion.” The cover depicts a Sony TV held by a gloved hand, and above the hand is a sleeve decorated like an American flag.  Yes, American consumers are buying Japanese electronics. And Sony makes more than televisions. It makes high fidelity recording and radio sets and related components. Sony is in direct competition with Scott, but so are the Japanese companies Panasonic, Pioneer, Sanyo, Toshiba and Sansui. But this is not news to Pomper and his employees. Since the early 1960’s they will have seen articles warning of Japan’s ability to innovate, manufacture with precision and compete on price. As Pomper told the Beacon in 1968, he and the company need help against Japan. That help does not arrive. A late 1972 article in the Beacon again addresses H. H. Scott’s financial condition, and now that condition is truly dire. Scott has undertaken a mass layoff and seeks bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. While the article does not say, it appears that Scott enters bankruptcy when key suppliers refuse to deliver components and sue for money owed.   While the company’s headcount is roughly 700 only a few years earlier, by the time of the October 1972 mass layoff headcount is down to about 410. After the layoff, headcount is twelve. Those dozen are deemed essential to reorganize the company and emerge from bankruptcy.  Victor Pomper remains President. The article quotes him: “We’ve not gone down the tubes….”   He is correct. If the company can get adequate financing, it will restart operations rather than see its assets liquidated. Pomper discusses how he hopes to convince new lenders to finance a reorganization. The company will acquire “computerized automation equipment to slash direct labor costs by up to seventy percent….” That is both a dramatic potential savings, and a dramatic statement to the laid off personnel. If the company can reorganize, roughly seventy percent of the laid off employees who assemble, test, package and ship products will not be re-offered their jobs. And thanks to that Beacon article, we have real insight into who those people are. The Beacon notes that roughly 40 clerical and supervisory personnel are laid off, roughly half being women, and that 355 layoffs are in assembly, testing and packaging of whom 250 are women, with approximately 100 of them being military wives from Fort Devens.  In the fall of 1972, America troop levels in Vietnam have fallen from a high of 540,000 in 1968 to 25,000. Some of those Fort Deven wives will have worked for Scott for some time. H. H. Scott may have offered a job that eased the absence of a husband at war, or even the loss or wounding of a husband. These women will have stories to tell of what H. H. Scott meant to them. The Beacon article then adds: “President Pomper told the Beacon last month that the reason for the corporation’s grave financial crisis was the failure of the Federal government to come through with funds to alleviate import injury …  H. H. Scott buying all its parts, equipment etc ... and doing all assembly, design etc … in the United States has been particularly hard hit by Japanese imports ... The Japanese industry which has come to the fore in the past three years is both government financed and protected….”  Pomper never does manage the reorganization of H. H. Scott, and at some point, I believe early in 1973, the company is acquired out of bankruptcy by SYMA of Belgium, Scott’s European distributor.  Herman Scott dies in 1975. At the time of his death he lives in Lincoln, MA. That same year the company he founded, built and then lost moves from Maynard to Woburn. In 1985, H. H. Scott is purchased by Emerson Electric. Today, Emerson sells hands-free car speakerphones under the H. H. Scott brand. I do not believe it offers stereo equipment under that brand. The old H. H. Scott facility on Powder Mill Road still exists. It is a storage facility, the lowest tech usage imaginable for a place of once spectacular technical innovation. The H. H. Scott company operates from Maynard for seventeen years (1957-1975) through the period of its greatest success and its demise. Was Scott done in by its commitment to buy American components, to build in America and to not fast track manufacturing automation to reduce employment? Quite possibly.  Victor Pomper is not wrong in saying that Japanese electronics companies innovated around (and stole) patents, had relatively low wages and faced low environmental standards, received Japanese government backing and faced low to nonexistent America tariffs.  At some point those advantages will overtake even an innovative company like H. H. Scott. Once high fidelity is more or less achieved by all of Scott’s competitors, then any incremental improvements made by Scott become harder to sell at a price that will be paid by any but the most committed audiophile.  For H. H. Scott, the game goes from high quality and continuous technical innovation to price and marketing. And Scott gets beaten at that new game. The following is from an online forum by the name audiokarma on which in 2011 a contributor posts a picture of an H. H. Scott console and asks for opinions. This is one opinion: “There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of info on the H. H. Scott consoles; probably because they didn’t sell a lot of them (like Fisher.) Or more likely the ones they did sell didn’t survive the millennium. Seems that Scott used the consoles to experiment with tube-transistor hybridizing during the early to mid-1960’s. Maybe it was a parts bin clearing exercise to make way for the wild new world of transistors … we may never know. Anyway, I expect that the model you are looking at may be one of those tube preamp power output/ transistor hybrid jobs. The two piece later model knobs mounted on the right side of the faceplate and the Garrard changer are tipoffs that’s something transitional may be lurking under the hood … my parents had a late model H. H. Scott console that was fully transistorized, circa 1968; Theirs was the midline Berkeley Model. There were five models: Copley, Exeter, Berkeley, Andover and Carlisle. It had a dual 10-10 changer mounted on a massive spring suspended platform to quell acoustic feedback, tradename ‘Isomount.’ On all these generation solid state units, the knobs are left of the tuner dial. If you look closely, you can see the round Scott “Field Effect Transistor’ logo just above the signal strength meter. In its heyday, it sounded pretty decent for what it was. These units even had guitar and microphone inputs. I wonder how many teens wound up blowing out some of the drivers and smoking the outputs …”  Storage Location in the archive VF112 HH Scott folder (1 of 5) SU21-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A History of the H.H. Scott Company Description An account of the resource A monograph describing the origins and history of the H.H. Scott company which was a pioneer in high-fidelity stereo audio equipment for professionals and the home markets. The company, which was founded in 1947, was headquartered in Maynard from 1957 to 1975 before it relocated to Waltham and was effectively shuttered in 1985 when it became a brand name for a larger electronics company. 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Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Print. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 5 x 7 in. Storage Location in the archive PB57 SU18-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cumberland Farms Store Description An account of the resource A photo of Debbie Morreale surveying the damage to the front window of the local Cumberland Farms store at 54 Acton St. A hit and run driver went through the front window of the store. 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The store was located at the corner of Walnut St. and River St. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980-04-10 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2015.91 Jack Pessotti Paul Pessotti Walnut Street Mopeds https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/1c25674151c75a211ef21b6b45d36ea2.jpg d665dfca1f1ec4aa23488bc5e625335e Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Print. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 5 x 7 in. Storage Location in the archive PB57 SU18-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Boeske Gas Station Description An account of the resource A black and white photo of a car wash sponsored at the Boeske Gas Station. The station was located at the corner of Brown Street and Conant. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2015.90 Boeske Brown Street car wash Conant gas station https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/482a87b11c4654aaf99bf03effad7684.jpg 8e445aaa1ddcb1f7d73933b851690b6c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Print. Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 5 x 7 in. Storage Location in the archive PB57 SU18-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource K & B Tires Description An account of the resource A black and white photo of the K & B Tires opening. In the picture are Bill Gray, owner, and Bob Daigle, owner of the new 5-K Transportation Co., which operates school buses. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource The Beacon Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2015.89 Bill Gray K & B Tires https://collection.maynardhistory.org/files/original/1d53f97853042e1a9a9b4061e3c2b3e0.jpg 8c2d1611532aa1729be55e3ef8e08ecb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Digital Equipment Corporation Description An account of the resource Items from Digital Equipment Corporation, which was headquartered in Maynard from 1957-1999. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dave Griffin, David Wisniewski, Lenny Palmer, Chris Lister Includes a number of artifacts on permanent loan from the Ken Olsen Collection from Gordon College. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Photo Print Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image. 5 x 7 in. Storage Location in the archive PB57 SU18-5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Karate Club of Digital Equipment Corporation Description An account of the resource A black and white photo of the DEC Karate Club at 62 Nason Street. The instructor's name was Dick Jones. A prison guard, from Concord Reformatory, Herb Stuart (from South Acton), took over the school around 1968 and eventually moved it to Main Street. 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