This looks to be Caron's General Store in Portage Maine. I remember it well growing up in Portage The store is no longer there. The building to the right in the picture burned down in the 60's.

Yes that was my Grandparents store. Many wonderful memories there. I wish the building was still there.

Known as Stevens' Store by we old people. :)

Steven's store to buy shoes, other clothing and especially penny candy! A son/grandson lived there, close to my age. He played a musical instrument.. They lived upstairs above the store. The small building on the left of Stevens was Portage post office. House to the left of the PO at the top of the photo was also owned by the Stevens family, I believe.

Stevens house as well,on the left. Now owned by Wayne and Carroll Gagnon. The little building in the rear of the main house was where Terry Overlock rented when he first arrived. He was teacher at the elementary school for many years.

Great picture, my grandfather ran the general store for 50 years.

My grandfather, Chester Caron, would have bought this store sometime around this year, if he didn't already own by this time. I was born in 1967 and lived in the store with my Grandparents and Parents for about 3 years.

Steven's store, and to the left of that, the postoffice, and to the left of that, Will Ross's house. I was born in 1933 and
started going to school in down town Portage in fall of 1944. Before that I went to the school in Buffalo.

I remember when the building to the right (south) of Caron's Store burned. It was a very very cold winter day. My Dad was a Game Warden and his issued pick-up wouldn't start so he ran down the hill to go help. The pumps on the fire trucks froze up almost immediately. The wind was blowing very hard but it was coming off the lake, which was all that saved the nearby buildings. They even got help from the Presque Isle Fire Department.