ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Staff photo. Gloucester Daily Times. The John Tarr store has been in Rockport for 125 years. Bethany Carlson is the owner. She holds a photo of her grandfather, left, Dick Carlson, with the store's original proprietor, John Tarr, in this image probably from the 1930s. Next to her at left is an old fashioned calculator and a photo of herself (left, at age 5) and her older sister Susan Carlson Gentile in the store when they were kids.

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