Community Corner
Picture Enfield 2021 - Throwbacks, Memories And Nostalgia
A look back at 2021's Picture Enfield - Then And Now throwback columns, showing the evolution of the town throughout the decades.
ENFIELD, CT — As another year comes to a close, many people still clamor for the "good old days" of Enfield past. During 2021, memories of the town were revived on a (mostly) weekly basis, via 40 editions of the Picture Enfield - Then And Now column on Patch.
We are lucky to have been granted permission to use images from some outstanding publications, including I Took a Little Trip to My Hometown by John Zirolli, Enfield: 1950-1980 by Jim Malley and Images of America: Enfield Connecticut by Michael Miller. We are also grateful to the Facebook group Picture Enfield, and to the Enfield Historical Society for use of the old Enfield and Fermi high school yearbooks and other vintage photographs.
A wide variety of historical images were presented during the past year: institutions including Freshwater Pond, Scitico School and King's Korner; long-gone retailers like Eddie's Sporting Goods, Vincent's Men's and Boys' Apparel, Village Florist and the Hockey Swap & Shop; and dining establishments such as Enfield Dairy Bar, Mr. Steak, The Pines and DiMartino's Giant Grinders.
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Picture Enfield - Then And Now has become one of the most popular features on Enfield Patch. Nearly 100,000 views were recorded on that column alone during the year, averaging about 2,600 readers per edition.
Here are 2021's offerings:
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- Eddie's Sporting Goods
- Vincent's Men's and Boys' Apparel
- Police Chief Walter Skower
- Louis Chevrolet
- Service Merchandise
- Freshwater Pond
- Bridge Lane covered bridge
- Scitico School
- Blizzard of 1888
- Interstate 91 construction near state line
- Interstate 91 construction over South Road
- Old Enfield Street School
- Smyth's Softserv
- 1750 home on Broad Brook Road
- Dr. William Adams' home
- Enfield Dairy Bar
- Cine Enfield 1-4
- Burgess Farm
- Fredrick Realty
- Church Street businesses
- The Elms
- Mr. Steak
- Village Florist
- The Pines
- Main Street - Thompsonville
- Powder Hollow packing house
- Leland R. Hawthorne and Son
- Urban renewal
- Hockey Swap & Shop
- 118 Elm Street
- Green Manorville Shopping Parkade
- Asnuntuck Community College
- La Molisana
- Bigelow-Sanford Jacquard building
- Sullivan House
- flooded Thompsonville bus station
- King's Korner
- 84 Lumber
- DiMartino's Giant Grinders
- Pearl Street at Christmastime
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