Can't let this go, I guess. I dug out all my Port of Portland
material to try to track down some of the "industries" I couldn't
find in the city directory, under the assmption that hit me about 5
minutes after I uploaded the list that the personal name items would
likely be steamship agents and brokers. Sure enough, I quickly found
that F E Gignoux was an agent (with a large display ad in the 1953
Port of Portland book). While I couldn't find the others, they may
also be agents or brokers. They might also not be located in
Portland. This convinces me that someone compiled this list by going
through a waybill or bill of lading manifest.

Acme Fast Freight, Jarka, and Casco Terminals all operate from the
Portland Terminal property at what is now the International ferry
Terminal. I am not clear whether they were in the ferry building (it
was then a transit shed for the wharf) or in the freight house (which
was where the cars now line up for the ferry, extending under the
bridge). They both had the same address, 468 Commercial. At some
point around this time, Acme Fast Freight became the agent for lcl
shipments on the BAR; I don't know whether they did the same for MEC
and/or B&M. Acme was, I believe a nationwide freight forwarder and
consolidator. As George Melvin points out in his article on Portland
Union Station in the September Railfan & Railroad, after the station
was torn down express cars were unloaded at the freight house.

Just as an aside, I was looking up REA to see whether they had moved
from Union Station to Commercial by 1960 and found that the PT
crossing tender at Congress and the station tracks had an official
city address, 961 Congress.

Stan