Andy's Handy Store

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Andy’s Handy Store, often called Handy Andy’s, is a historic building at 367 Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, where Main Street meets Elm Street. Parts of the building go back to 1891, and over the years it has housed more than thirty businesses. Notably, the first telephone call between Yarmouth and Portland was placed from this location.

The site has hosted many shops, including hardware stores, bakeries, a drug store, a luncheonette, and other businesses. In 1935 it became Andy’s Handy Store, named after Leland “Andy” Anderson, who later combined two nearby wooden buildings into one. The business changed hands several times and even served as an auxiliary post office in the late 1990s and early 2010s. In recent years it has housed OTTO Pizza, a grocery store and café known as The Nook, and later temporary tenants. From early 2022 to September 2024, Thoroughfare used the whole building. In 2025 the building is occupied entirely by Salsa, a restaurant.