Flashback Friday: Old Enfield Advertisements

ENFIELD, CT — Our discovery of old advertisements in telephone directories and high school yearbooks has prompted a number of requests to feature more of our usual Throwback Thursday column, so today we introduce Flashback Friday, giving readers two opportunities a week to reminisce about an Enfield business of the past.

Today we feature an ad from the 1961 telephone directory for Adams-Brainard Inc., a garden center at 654 Enfield Street which, at that time, was the main thoroughfare in the town. Note the old-style telephone number: RI 5-4218.

Not much is known about this business, but records found online indicate the company was registered with the state of Connecticut on Sept. 11, 1959, and officially dissolved on April 10, 1984.

The building, located behind the former Rockville Bank branch and adjacent to the Enfield Plaza, currently houses Panella's Plumbing and Heating.

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

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