Thurston's Lobster Pound is a seafood restaurant in Bernard, Maine, United States. Situated on Thurston Road, a cul-de-sac off Steamboat Wharf Road,[2] overlooking Bass Harbor from the west, it has been in business since 1993. Its most popular dish is lobster.[2][3]
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Established | 1993 |
Owner(s) | Radcliffe family |
Street address | 9 Thurston Road |
City | Bernard |
County | Hancock County |
State | Maine |
Postal/ZIP Code | 04612 |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 44°14′21″N 68°21′09″W / 44.23918215°N 68.35249619°W |
Website | www |
History
editEstablished in 1993 and owned by the Radcliffe family, it was a progression of the original F. W. Thurston Company,[4] started in 1946 by Fred Webster Thurston. Thurston's daughter, Audrey, and her husband, Harvey Moore, became partners in the business two years later.[5]
Thurston died in 1959, and left his half of the business to his grandson, Lester Radcliffe.[5]
Harvey died in 1971, at which point Radcliffe purchased the remaining half of the business from his mother. He remained the sole proprietor for the following two decades.[5]
Michael Radcliffe, Lester's son, and his wife, Elizabeth, purchased F. W. Thurston in 1991. They expanded the business two years later with Thurston's Lobster Pound.[5]
After thirteen summer seasons, the Radcliffes leased the business to an employee between 2006 and 2012, at which point, with the help of their daughter, Elizabeth, they took control again.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Best bets for Bar Harbor" - Times Union, September 3, 2021
- ^ a b Fabrikant, Geraldine (2011-07-14). "36 Hours in Bar Harbor, Me". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ Taylor, David; Smith, Lisa (2014-05-01). "Catch a fresh dining scene on Mt. Desert Island". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ Rein, Ninah (2022-04-15). "Board approves changes to Thurston's Lobster Pound pier". Mount Desert Islander. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ a b c d e "Our Story | Thurston's Lobster Pound". 2019-01-15. Retrieved 2022-08-23.