Posts By Dave Pelland
Twin Colony Diner, Torrington
The diner shortly after it opened in 1983
A later view of the diner, complete with a badass lighting filter
A view, after a 2009 renovation, harvested from the diner’s Facebook page. Red pickup driver missed the parking space.
Congregational Church, New Canaan
Mailed in 1947 to Essex Junction, Vermont
Schrafft’s Restaurant and Motor Inn, New London
Featuring the Four Kings Cocktail Lounge. Card not mailed.
Memorial Arch, Hartford
The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Hartford’s Bushnell Park. The Park River, diverted underground during a 1940s flood control project, is in the foreground. Card was mailed in 1907 to Milton, Massachusetts, by someone who apparently owes his Nana some money. And probably an explanation.
Riverside Park, Hartford
A park, alongside a river. Mailed in 1907 to Newark, New Jersey.
Main Street, Stratford
Looking south from near Harvey Place.
Yale Old Campus, New Haven
Card not mailed
Harten House, Waterbury
The former Waterbury Inn, with a new roof, survives today as the Super 8 off Scott Road. Harten House, which proclaimed itself to be “Waterbury’s finest restaurant,” is today’s Ninos. We can only wonder at the magic that started in the daiquiri-scented ambiance of Harten House’s cleverly named Nightcap Lounge.
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