Flashback Friday: Do You Remember...

ENFIELD, CT — In this weekly series, Enfield Patch remembers a business or landmark that is no longer in town through publication of old advertisements from some 1960s-1990s Enfield and Fermi high school yearbooks and early-1960s to mid-1980s telephone directories and newspapers.

Today we feature a business card ad from the 1991 Fermi yearbook for 84 Lumber, located at 55 Hazard Avenue.

The building materials supply company was founded in 1956 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Eighty Four, Penn. The business grew rapidly, and the company opened 229 new stores during the 1970s. An additional 30 stores opened in the early 1980s, including Enfield in 1981.

The local store operated until 1995, when the property was sold. Today, the remodeled building houses NAPA Auto Parts and New England Urgent Care.

Enfield Patch invites readers to share their memories in the comments section below.

Do you have a photo or an old ad from a former Enfield business? Email it to tim.jensen@patch.com and we’ll feature it in an upcoming column.