Auto Rest Park on Rt.2, just outside of Bangor, Maine, operated from 1920 through 1959. Its ballroom hosted many of the top name bands, along with a good size array of rides and the only licensed zoo in Maine at that time. Auto Rest advertised 27 varieties of ice cream and 'clamd fried the frisco way'. During the summer of 1936, Captain Shultz's Wild Animal Show was a feature attraction.

Even if you grew up in a subdivision with a brief record of human habitation, you could get misty about places like: Maine's old Auto Rest Park, where dance bands played and the Brady Gang stayed the night before the FBI shot them in Bangor.

Prior to the Interstate's Route 2 was the major highway to Bangor.