A.W. Sharp's Store. Upper Gloucester, ME. 6.

A.W. Sharp's Store. Upper Gloucester, ME. 6.

Scene of a roadside store and attached garage in a quiet village on a summer day. Judging by the signs, the image is of an early gas station/general store in the early days of automobile driving. The Ford pulling out of the garage bay may have just been filled up inside the garage. A man - perhaps A.W. Sharp himself- standing in the shadows of the first bay--may have pumped the gas. Beside him is a buggy, and surrounding him are signs and placards decorating the inside: "Dominion Household Cleanser", auto parts, circus posters. A sign reading "Edgeworth/The Best Made/ Bread" hangs on the building's end. The right hand portion of the building, which likely was also Sharp's house, is hung with signs: "A.W. Sharp"/ Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots & Shoes, Flour, Grain, Hardware; Gasoline, Daniel Webster Flour, Moxie (soda), Waitt & Bond Blackstone (cigars) /Sold from Maine to Mexico, Frasier Harvard 10 cent Cigars, New England Telephone & Telegraph/ Bell System". A sign advertising "That Good Gulf Gasoline" is mounted on a nearby telephone pole. Hard by the dirt street, a cat and two wooden chairs occupy the shop's worn front porch. Beyond, facing the road as it disappears down a hill, is an older, double-entrance house, and another house.