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Maine license plate - 1940Ted Lampron Jr. was born on October 22, 1940, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland, Maine. His parents were: Theodore J. Lampron Sr. and Mary C. Lampron (Blanchard)
Maine General Hospital - Portland, Maine circa 1940
Ted began school at the Saco Street grammar school in Westbrook, Maine. It was a two room school house with grades 1-3. He was later transferred to St. Mary's Catholic School were he was taught by Catholic Nuns. After finishing the fifth grade, his mother transferred him to a public school, Bridge St. Grammar School. A year later he was transferred again to the new Saccarappa Elementary School.
Saco St. Grammar School c.1940 St. Mary's Grammar School c.1950 Bridge St. Grammar School c.1930
First Communion - 1947 at St. Mary's Church The summer of 1953, when he was 13 years old, Ted went to work at the Dana Warp Mills as a bobbin boy in one of the spinning rooms.
Directly across the street from the Dana Warp Mill at 53 Bridge St., there was a newly constructed grocery store and adjacent cafe owned by the Zaharis family. Ted had no idea at the time, but 23 years later, that same grocery store would later be converted to a sandwich shop which he would eventually own and operate. Today the store still exists at 57 Bridge St. Dana Warp Mills c. 1940
In 1958, Ted joined the U.S. Navy, and served six years of service before accepting an honorable discharge in 1964.
US Naval SeabeeTed served with the 5th Battalion of Seabees out of Port Hueneme, California. Ted received combat training with the U.S. Marine Corp. at Camp Pendleton, California, and after three months of intensive jungle warfare training, The 5th Battalion shipped out for Guam as an Alert Battalion to Vietnam in readiness for war. Guam had been devastated by Typhoon Karen on November 12, 1962 and when Battalion 5 arrived on Guam, the island was still in bad shape. The Super Typhoon had devastated the island's infrastructure and there was still a lot of work to be done. Ted was a squad leader and had 12 men under his leadership.
Together they erected new buildings and repaired other structures including a 21 mile pipeline across Guam. Battalion 5 was on Guam for one year, and then the Battalion was shipped back to Port Hueneme for further combat training. Their next mission would take them to Okinawa and then to the war in Vietnam. Three more months of combat training in the states went by fast, and before long, Battalion 5 was headed for Okinawa in the Philippines. Ted's enlistment was up in in September of 1964 and he decided to leave the Navy and move to Los Angeles, California. Ted lived in L.A. for four years before moving back to Maine.
In 1975, Ted bought the Bridge St. Sandwich Shop in Westbrook.
Ted and his wife worked the store for 5 years until they decided to return to California in 1981. Ted was employed as a store manager for Best Products, and later as a district manager for H&R Block in San Francisco, before retiring in 2002. Ted moved to Myrtle Beach, So. Carolina in 2005.
Ted Lampron - 2007
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