The Good Old Days

Date1938 – 1949

Can Descriptions2018-002 A Tribute to Our Hiram Neighbors The Good Old Days Produced by: Hiram Historical Society Edited By: Ed Pierce Narrated By: Hilda Kaye Berry 8mm Transfer By: Gnome Knoll Hiram, ME HK Berry Films Approx Run Time 57 min

Viewing NotesSlate: ‘Hiram Historical Society presents Home Movies from the collection of HILDA KAYE BERRY’. Men hitching up draft horses. Hilda’s narration states that this is Denmark, Maine, 1938. The men exercising the horses. A man, Wilbur [Hammond?] Sr., ice fishing on skates, possibly at South East Pond. Two men ice fishing, George [Sanborn?] and Frank [inaudible]. Houses filmed from a moving vehicle. A store front, with the sign ‘CLARENCE V. KAYE, NATION-WIDE’. Houses. A woman [Ira?] Horn, walking with a bag of groceries. Two women, Phyllis [inaudible] and Ruth Mackey (?) running into a house. A car driving down the street. People walking around Old Orchard Beach. The rollercoaster, pier, and beach at Old Orchard Beach. A woman, Ethel Horn and a man, [inaudible] Millikan. People at the Ernest Day Farm, including Ernest Day and his mother, Rhoda. A dog. A little girl, Rosemary Kelley, running around. A woman gardening. Shots of cars and the water at the Eastern Promenade in Portland. A car, a 1936 Buick. An airplane taking off at what is now the Portland International Jetport. Planes parked at the North Conway Airport. People watch as a man attempts to turn a propeller. A woman, Abbot, her son, Raymond Abbot Jr., and a young girl next to a car. Close up of a woman’s face. People sitting on the porch of a house. A waterfall. Shot of the White Mountains. A group of people hiking through the woods, including Hilda’s Aunt Dot. A girl poses in front of the waterfall. A resort hotel by a lake. People ski jumping as a crowd watches. According to the narration, some are students from Dartmouth University. A marching band performs at the base of the slope. A snow plow in Hiram, run by Fred Horn, Russel McLaughlin and Jim Lamont. Two girls, Gloria Horn and [inaudible] Kaye, playing in the snow. A living room with a Christmas tree. A little girl picks up a gifts. Two men driving a tractor down the road. The man driving is either Tom Hammond or Fred Horn. Rosemary Kelley playing outside. Three girls walking hand in hand. One is [Gerry Warren?] A little girl with a flag for Memorial Day. A group of young people outdoors. A woman and a girl walking up the street. A dog. A Memorial Day parade. A Fourth of July parade. A fire, filmed at night, as practice for the Hiram Fire Department. Fall foliage in the White Mountains, filmed from a moving vehicle. Cars driving up a road through the mountains. Narration says it is near Glen House. A person walking in a garden. A waterfall. The Mount Washington Hotel. A sign for the Cog Railway. A woman, Ethel Horn, walking up the road. A woman, [April Rankin?] walking with her young daughter, [Dawn?]. Twin toddlers playing in the grass. A road wash-out, 1939. A ferris wheel, possibly at the Fryeburg Fair. An oxen pulling contest. Cars in the parking area for the Fair. Damage at the road washout. Men working on the road/bridge. Hilda’s grandmother and aunt. A crane at the wash-out. A horse being used to clear debris. A damaged mill by the river. A girl [Helen Kimball?] riding a pony up the road. A woman, Ethel, a girl and a dog. People gathered around an airplane which had crashed into a barn somewhere in Canada. A truck moving the broken airplane. A girl and a dog. The girl and dog playing in the snow. Children, including [Gloria and Roy Horn?] playing in the snow. Children skiing. A woman, a girl, and a boy, Erwin [inaudible] by a stream. A man [Roy Evans?] walking up the street. Two women, Ruth Mackey and Phyllis, and a boy, Erwin. A woman, [Marguerite Hammond?] walking her dog. Marguerite Hammond walking with a man, Ralph Rankin. A crowd of people outside the Kaye store. A line of young people getting onto a school bus,1939. Erwin sailing a toy boat in a drainage ditch. [Film changes to color] Horses at the Fryeburg Fair. A horse drawn wagon leading a cow. A boy [Rory?] playing in the snow. A Christmas tree in front of the Kaye store, filmed at night. A man, Charles [Sanborn?] driving a horse drawn wagon. A woman walking up the street [Anna Bean?] A young woman, Phyllis Howard, and a girl, Gloria Horn, walking up the street. A man teaching two calves to walk in a yoke. A girl with the calves. Two girls dancing. A man, Albert Howard, plowing a field with a tractor. Pigs. Children playing outside. A toddler, Ester Howard, walking. A woman, Beatrice, walks outside. A girl, Sally Hammond. A cat. The tractor going up the road. A woman and a toddler. Two toddlers in an outdoor play pen. A boy, Bill Hammond, with a calf. A man in uniform, [Aly Millikan?] walking with a woman, [Katy Clements?] while home on furlough from the Army. Aly walking with a girl, [Hilda?], followed by a group of women. Aly Millikan salutes the camera. Aly and Clarence Kaye. Katy and her dog. Horses and cows lining up for the parade at the Fryeburg Fair. A marching band in the parade. Men and horses. A line of cows. Horses. A horse pulling contest, with the grand stand and ferris wheel in the background. The Pythian Sisters on a float. A decorated fire truck. Cars lined up for a parade. Floats in the parade. A marching band. An army band. More shots of the parade. A car on fire on a snowy road. A girl [Elma Clements?] and her dog, Buster. A person on an eroded slope. Children by the side of the road. Cars driving up a flooded road. A flooded area. A stack of lumber floating away. Hiram Falls at high water. A Shell gas station surrounded by water. A dog. Hiram Falls. Post Master Cliff Evans standing in the street with another man, Leonard [Bernell?], and a boy, Erwin. The flooded area. Three men, Fred Horn, Elliot [Leroy?], and Clarence Kaye pose with a line of fish. A woman, [Mrs. Leroy?] and a little girl, Ester Howard. A girl [inaudible] Kimball on a pony. A toddler on the pony. A toddler, Kathy, trying to walk. Houses and trucks after a May snowstorm. A dog playing in the grass. The post office. Three men pose in front of a pine tree. A woman and a dog in the garden. Women and children sitting on the front steps. A crowd of students and teachers from the Hiram Grammar School, circa 1946. Students playing outside for Field Day at school. Two toddlers, Wilbur Hammond Jr. and Toby Hammond, walking in the grass. A woman mowing the lawn. A woman holding kittens. A woman, [Annabelle Harper?] (died 1961) Hilda’s grandmother, in a garden. A girl [Hilda?] poses for the camera. The Hiram baseball team. People on horseback. Students waiting for the Fryeburg bus. A man [Eldon Kaye?], poses for the camera with others. A boy pulling another boy in a toy wagon. A dog walking out of the store with a treat. A woman pulling children on a sled. The store front. Two people, Ann and Harold Sanborn, walking up the road. A bull dozer and a dump truck at a road wash out. Gloria Horn’s wedding, (September 1949) at the Hiram Universalist Church. A different wedding, of Mary [York?] to Clarence [Terrell?]. A cat in the garden. The rose garden of Prof. Rupert [inaudible] in South Portland. A baby otter. A toddler, Curtis Day, playing with the otter. A man holding the otter. Kittens. Line of graduates at Fryeburg Academy. A woman poses next to Mr. Elroy [inaudible], head minister at Fryeburg Academy. The woman poses with her diploma. A lumber mill. A man playing with a partridge, as Hilda’s children watch. Hilda Kaye Berry ending narration. People playing with the partridge. Men posing next to the ‘King Pine’. People cutting down the pine. Slate: ‘Hiram Historical Society wishes to thank CLARENCE KAYE HILDA KAYE BERRY for sharing these memories with us’. [End of Tape]