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1940: Richard Berner holds a large block of ice and opens his mouth to the icy drips as his brother Robert looks on.
1938: Children having a wonderful time and keeping cool in the Lincoln Park fountain in mid-August.
1963: Beating the heat with a can of orange soda and a pot of cold water.
1972: Just helping to keep a fellow camper cool.
1955: Twins Kathleen and Katharine Kelley and their dolls are not relying on just a breeze to keep them cool in late August.
1944: Cooling off in "the breezy dome of groves, The shadows of Deering's Woods.."
1944: As adults cooled off in the shade, children splashed in the Deering Oaks Park pond.
1942: Hijinks in the Pullen Fountain on Federal Street behind the Central Fire Station.
1940: Looking worried - and no wonder - a woman is packed into a cake of ice as part of a carnival act in late August.
1949: Dorothy L. McLoon heads up the the gangplank of the Sabino, a Casco Bay Lines ferry in the reserve fleet, probably pressed into service during the busy summer months. Dorothy is not just going to rely on island breezes to stay cool.
1939: Dickie Nelson helps his brother Robert and friend Robert Pike keep cool in South Portland.
1948: Jackie Lemieux of Westbrook is all set at the beach with her Emerson radio.
1940: Teenagers at East End Beach.
1940: Boys with homemade scooters pull up to a lemonade stand in Lincoln Park.
1939: So many things were legal in the past, including throwing yourself off of a bridge to keep cool.
1962: Children enjoying the fountain at the Peppermint Park playground on Cumberland Avenue, near Smith Street.
1938: The contestants in the Willard Beach swim meet.
1939: Loraine Levesque fans Tiny the Cat on Carleton Street.
1948: Dianne Sawyer and Genevieve Keezer cooling off in late August.
1937: Hot weather did not stop these Portlanders from dressing up in coat and ties at a gathering near the docks.
1938: A hot day attracts many children and a dog to the floating dock at East End Beach.