Picture Enfield - Then And Now

ENFIELD, CT — Today's installment of this weekly Enfield history series revisits a popular chain restaurant which stood for about a dozen years at the Route 190 access road to the Enfield Square: Bickford's Family Restaurant.

In 1995, the longstanding Abdow's Big Boy restaurant was sold to the Brockton, Mass.-based Bickford's chain. The original Bickford's in Enfield was on the corner of Hazard Avenue and Palomba Drive (site of the current Key Bank building), and in the late 1990s, the restaurant moved into the former Abdow's location at 7 Hazard Avenue, at the south entrance to Enfield Square.

Bickford's, founded in 1921, was one of the first establishments where breakfast fare was served all day long; in fact, its slogan was "breakfast anytime."

The Route 190 restaurant closed abruptly in Oct. 2010, the same day as the Westfield, Mass. location. Today, just three restaurants operate under the Bickford's name, all in Massachusetts.

Chipotle Mexican Grill, an AT&T store and SuperCuts are currently housed in the remodeled building at 7 Hazard Avenue, as seen below.

Last week's trivia answer:
Last week's trivia question was, "For nearly a quarter-century, Pauline LaCroix 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?" The answer: Pollyanna's Beauty Salon, featured in the ad below from the 1983 Fermi High School yearbook (complete with typo).

This week's trivia question:
Three members of the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame were sports standouts at Brown University in the prestigious Ivy League, and four other inductees coached at Brown following their playing days. Name them. Post the answer in the comments section below, or on the Enfield Patch Facebook page.