Throwback Thursday: Do You Remember...?

ENFIELD, CT — In this weekly series, Enfield Patch remembers a business or landmark in town that is no longer in existence.

Today we continue the new format of this column we recently instituted: old advertisements from local businesses in some 1970s and 1980s Enfield and Fermi high school yearbooks and early-1960s to mid-1980s telephone directories and newspapers (remember newspapers - those things people used to read in the morning with their coffee...).

Today we feature a circa 1980 ad for the notorious Dial Tone Lounge in the Enfield Plaza on Route 5. The bar was founded in the early 1970s by Richard Camerlin, who went on to open 12 such establishments in southern New England.

Each table or booth at the Dial Tone has a phone with a large number on it, and patrons were encouraged to call someone at another table and ask them to dance.

At one time, the Dial Tone was among the hottest places to "see and be seen" in Enfield. Its popularity was such that fire officials once shut down the facility due to overcrowding.

The Enfield location closed somewhere around 1984. Dancing, however, remains at the site, as Ballroom Fever currently operates at 608 Enfield Street.

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.