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New
and Remarkable at the Half Tide Shops
BY CAPTAIN D
FOR ME the businesses that have comprised the Half Tide Shops on
the Bar Harbor Road in Trenton are half forgotten. This could just be
me. I haven't really been a prospect for karate lessons, used
furniture, cleaning services, or vacuum cleaners. Still nothing here
reached out and grabbed me. Like my recollections, the big block
letters spelling out Half Tide Shops are faded half away. Nobody seemed
to care.
But things are changing markedly. Bright new business are opening shops
here.
It began a year ago when Denise Daugherty opened the Acadia
Clipper Beauty Salon. The name itself suggests heightened energy.
Clippers, ships with three or more masts and square rigs, were
the fastest ships the world seen.
Denise, a seasoned professional who operated a shop in Bar Harbor
for eighteen years, gave the place a shot of adrenaline.
Following in Denise's footsteps are Jonathan Tardiff and Brian Stan.
Tardiff began in Bangor, opening, with Stephen King's blessings,
Needful Things. It was from King that he got the name. King wrote the
creepy bestseller "Needful Things" about a curious little shop in a
small Maine town. A year ago, Tardiff opened his second Needful Things
on High Street in Ellsworth. Tardiff has handled all
sorts of stuff while specializing in gold, silver, and other precious
metals.
In Trenton, Tradiff is calling his shop Acadia Antiques. He is still
buying gold, silver and other precious metals, but is now moving more
heavily into general antiques. He'll buy single pieces or entire
estates.
Next to Acadia Aniques is a new
venture, Poseidon Firearms, a first-class oasis for sportsmen. Brian
Stan, himself a lifelong sportsman, provides quality firearms and
sporting goods at reasonable prices. Stan extends friendly, honest, and professional service
to folks shopping for guns
and accessories, ammunition, fishing rods, reels, and tackle, ice
fishing supplies, hunting gear, licenses, and bait.
Half tide. Does this term suggest an intertidal zone that's half empty
or half full? Right now we believe it means the latter. We believe it
suggests an optimistic scenario that can only get better and better.
For Trenton's Half Tide Shops, the future has never been brighter.
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