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MAE 49 main street blue hill www.maebluehill.com WE DELIVER 774-6166 Going to the beach Were also at Old Orchard Beach Our 66th Year in Business An Old Port Landmark Summer Hours 11am 2 am daily 1 Off Jumbo Pie with this ad Menu available at www.billspizzaportland.com BILLS PIZZAEst. 1949 J U LY A U G U S T 2 0 1 5 8 3 URBAN MYTH Building the mall at 10 Exchange Street Ian Valen- tine Walter Cantwell and John Dunn in 1978. GROWING UP As a haunt the Old Port that Paul and De- nis knew existed from 1970 to about 1983 though both of them were out by 79. Paul moved west for a few months before return- ing to his home in Limington and Denis bought a house. Denis said the end was coming when Greater Portland Landmarks asked if they could do tours in our studios Paul says. We were all anxious because we wanted to sell our stuff but at the same time Denis said When people start seeing what weve done with these places they are going to start seeing the value. He said This is the beginning of the end. And so it was. Paul remembers the day when rent for his studio above OPT went from 50 to 400 a month. Denis recalls having to rent a secret studio just to get work done because of all the visitor traffic. There were three stages of the Old Port Denis tells me. The early stage in the 1800s when it was the root of Portland for busi- ness. Then it was dead for awhile. Then the artists planted the seed and they occupied the Old Port for 10 years before it got gentri- fied. It was our piece of heaven because the rent was dirt cheap nobody bothered us and we were free-range. Having met with Paul and Denis before this years Old Port Festivalthey lay claim to participation in developing the original ideaI find myself caught up in reflection walking through the over-crowded streets trying to find just one of the stages. Could it be true what they say Or were these two spinning me tall tales