This 16-minute video provides an overview of what life was like in Portsmouth, New Hampshire during the 1950s. The video was produced by Preservation Company for the City of Portsmouth in collaboration with the New Hampshire Division of Historic Resources and funded with Portsmouth Community Development Block Grant funds.
Sources for the video include the Portsmouth Athenaeum, Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth Public Library, and interviews with Sherm Pridham, Ted Connors, Valerie Cunningham, Sarah Bodge, Kevin MacLeod, S. Lorraine Boston, and Harold Whitehouse, Jr.
This video is also available on the City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44THcW2Lh2s