The East End of The Green in the early 1940s
The East Main St. "Theater District" in 1946
These and hundreds more vintage views of Waterbury can be seen on my Waterbury Time Machine Cybertour.
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ReplyDeleteI've lived in Waterbury all of my life (1963 graduate of SHHS). I'll never forget our beautiful downtown in the 50s and 60s...the wonderful department stores, such as Howland Hughes with the great lower level at Christmas time, Worth's, Musler-Liebeskind, Mademoiselle, Dorfman's, the Rose Shop, Woolworth's, Jones&Morgan, Freedman's, Bedford's, Windsor's, Jimmy Janitto's, Squires, M.A. Green, Garston's, Knapps, Coney Island Lunch, K & J Restaurant, Loft's, Ruskin's, the "Peanut Man" walking around town. Love those memories!
ReplyDeleteSame here.. great memories
DeleteI remember Coney Island we would go there after we were done shopping you could see them cooking on the grill through the front window. What was the name of the other department store up from the horse across from the NY style food automat.
DeleteMy dad and mom came from Italy and he worked at the American Brass. We had a home at 23 Bridge St. that the state took to construct I-84, then we moved to 1286 East Main St. I went to Wilby High School. I remember hanging around the Chocolate Shop and Handy Kitchen, and walking downtown and shopping at Lerner's, Robinson's, Woolworth's, Howland Hughes, and the Rose Shop. Nothing around like that now. I'm presently living in Wolcott CT and am retired. I met an old neighbor the other day - Nick Forte, who is on the Website Radio page. I used to listen to Wild Man Steve and The Mad Hatter.
ReplyDeleteYou just brought tears to my eyes..those were the days...is sister Hat still dj???
DeleteThose were the days indeed!
DeleteI was born in '52 at St. Mary’s, and remember seeing the '55 flood at Jewelry Street with people in rowboats. Went to Maloney Grammar School, then walked every day to Sacred Heart High in the East End. After Sunday mass at Our Lady of Lourdes was pastry at Ortone's. Cheese shops with hanging balls of cheese on South Main St. Every year the trolley tracks popped up through the pavement. Parades on Union Street and bands playing in Library Park, especially on the 4th of July. Italian parents who waited on the front porch for you to bring their daughters home. That's what I remember about Waterbury.
ReplyDeleteI also was born at St Mary's in 1952. We lived on Scovill St. I went to Malony for kindergarten then we moved to the Reidville section on town and I went to Anderson School. I also went to SHHS class of 1970.
DeleteEvery year the trolley tracks popped up through the pavement.
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Milite's Bakery,Grella's,Duggan,Barnard,ST.Joe's,Begnal,Porter ST.Schools,Lolly's,Capitol Theater,Brooklyn YMCA, Brooklyn Athletic Club,Meadow Social Club, American Italian Club,Lithuanian Club,Charies ST. woods,the river,junk yard, block dances. FAMILY VALUES!