100 years ago, 1917
Eugene J. Gibbs of Gibbs & Pulsifer is building a new home on Minot avenue. Several new homes are being built on Auburn Heights and vicinity. There is still a shortage of shelter and tents are advancing in consequence of increased cost of production. These two cities are growing more rapidly than at any period in their history.
50 years ago, 1967
(Photo Caption) Miss Florence Tewhey, RN, demonstrates on a patient the safety belt she invented to allow patients more freedom of motion while preventing them from getting out of bed. The assistant supervisor of nursing on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift at the Central Maine General Hospital, Miss Tewhey deplored the unnecessary restraint associated with the commercial belts formerly used. Her belt allows the patient to sit up or turn onto the side and yet prevents the patient from getting out of bed. Such restraint is necessary at times in post-operative cases, or patients who have received heavy medications, or the elderly who sometimes become confused during the night in the new environment of the hospital.
25 years ago, 1992
The owner of an Auburn convenience store will be asking the Planning Board for permission to relocate the business across the street from its current address. Florian Magno Jr., owner of Florian’s Market at 286 Main St., in order to accommodate the city’s plans for a riverfront walkway and park behind the existing building, is willing to relocate his business to the site of the former Country Kitchen Bakery outlet at 301 Main St. Florian’s has been in business since 1963 when Magno’s father opened a store in the first-floor front of an apartment building that no longer exists. “It was next door where the station is now,” Magno recalled.
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