Picture Enfield - Then and Now

ENFIELD, CT — Today's installment of this weekly Enfield history series, courtesy of the Facebook group Picture Enfield, features a late 1970s look at businesses located at 117 and 119 Hazard Avenue: the Something Fishy seafood restaurant and market, and Real's Spirit Shop.

Something Fishy did not last long in town, and in the late 1980s, a Chinese restaurant briefly occupied the site before Salvatore "Tito" Fiore opened TJ's, a hot dog stand, in the early 1990s. In 1994, Ted Sposito opened Guido's Drive-In, a throwback-style restaurant featuring roller-skating waitresses which spent nearly a dozen years in Enfield before moving to Manchester in 2006.

Several other restaurants occupied 117 Hazard in the past decade, including Mama Miro's (2009-2014), J. Gumbo's (2014) and For Love And Food (2015-2019). The building, constructed in 1950, has recently undergone interior renovations in preparation for the opening of the Go Fresh deli-restaurant.

As for 119 Hazard, built in 1960, Joseph LaCroix owned Real's Spirit Shop for many years. Carl Scarfo and his son Chris operated Scarfo's Packy Run for many years, then a novelty shop briefly existed there before Laurie Meehan, LaCroix's daughter, moved Peter Ashley Salon & Day Spa into the building in 2007, after four years at its original home on Enfield Street.

Here is a look at the two buildings today (literally, as the photo was taken at 6:54 this morning).

Last week's trivia answer:
Last week's trivia question was, "How many girls comprised the first graduating class at Our Lady of the Angels Academy in 1945?" The answer: three - Carolyn Putkowska of New York City, Florence Rakowska of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Sophia Zdrok of Webster, Mass. They are shown here in the 1945 OLA yearbook, The Angelican, courtesy of the Enfield Historical Society.

This week's trivia question:
Joseph LaCroix, mentioned in this week's main story, was married for 35 years to his wife Pauline, who for nearly a quarter-century owned and operated a beauty salon on Route 5. The salon was one of the original team sponsors when the Enfield Dek Hockey Park opened in 1992, with team members sporting lovely yellow jerseys. What was the name of her salon? Post the answer in the comments section below, or on the Enfield Patch Facebook page.