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Sunoco Station on corner of Elm street and Park Street. Undated photo from Syd Greenberg, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society
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Sunoco Station on corner of Elm street and Park Street. Undated photo from Syd Greenberg, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society
Elm St. Some sort of a parade is going on. South side, Louise Beauty & Gift Shop, Doblin, Estabrook’s Arts & Crafts, Franco’s Wines Liquors, Nora Zandre, Lang’s Pharmacy, Spofford Gallery, Gristede’s Wines Liquors, Gristede Bros. Market, Texaco station. Ca. 1970s. Photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society
South side Elm Street, Esso station, site of present (1990’s) Bankwell parking (Roche & Sutherland). August 13, 1972. Robert Corry photo, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society
Elm Street; with Breslow Bros. in middle, The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company on the right and Colonial Barber Shop on left. Syd Greenberg photo, ca. 1975, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society
Last week, we spotlighted 10 great last-minute Christmas gift ideas in downtown New Canaan. This week, with help from the New Canaan Historical Society, we are featuring an album of photos that puts a spotlight on a handful of shops from the past. Here are eight photographs of our downtown from the 1970s.
These are great! I’m glad Robert Cory took them, and thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for the happy walk down memory lane. From my happy childhood in my perfect litt town
Thank you, Michael for publishing these photo of a bygone past.
Thank you Robert Corey and Syd Greenberg for these shots! (and Michael Dinan for the publishing) Wow, flooding memories… Growing up there was great.
Thanks so very much for these from a ‘Townie Boy’ of that era. I think I see my first car in “Elm Street, some sort of parade,” south side, first car parked on the left; the ’65 Impala.
Very cool photos. Moved there in 76 and away in 94. Always call New Canaan my home town.
I absolutely loved the pictures you published. From someone who grew up in New Canaan early on, all of them represented such happy memories for me. I was looking for Patsy Totaro’s Grocery store in the pictures! Louise Higley John