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If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at [email protected] or call 689-2896 and leave a voicemail with your answer, your name, town, and phone number. Correct entries will be put into a drawing for a $25 gift card courtesy of Hannaford Supermarkets. Find the Mystery Photo online at: sunjournal.com/tag/mystery-photo/

Mystery Photo for June 15, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Mystery Photo for June 8, 2025. (Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)

We had a lot of people mention several locations where the few remaining public phone booths can be found in the area. About a dozen correctly identified this particular one near TJ Maxx in the Auburn Plaza at 730 Center St. in Auburn. In a random drawing from all the correct entries, Rita Lemieux of Turner was picked as the winner of a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card. When contacted, she told us she shops in the plaza quite often and one day while walking past the phone booth, someone next to her picked up the receiver to see if it worked. It did not, she said. “We had a good laugh and I said that I thought Ma Bell forgot about it,” she told us.

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

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