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A Photo of Gloucester Harbor in 1952
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This old picture turned up in a box of memorabilia that my mom had been saving. I don't know who took it, or why an edge has been cut off, but there is a date on the reverse: 1952. Wow. I was two years old then. Mayo did not work from photographs - in my memory he always gone in the summer mornings, off to "paint the boats." Perhaps he used this image as a sort of compositional guide or detail guide. Who knows?
For me this image evokes a constellation sounds, smells and visual memories. Gorton's Fish factory was near where this was taken, so the smell of fish was always strongly in the air. As a young child, about the only times I was taken to Gloucester were on shopping and errand expeditions. We were often there around mid-day, when the noon whistle at the factory sounded. Do you remember how loud that was?
