Throwback Thursday: Do You Remember...?

ENFIELD, CT — In this weekly series, Enfield Patch remembers a business or landmark that is no longer in town through publication of old advertisements from some 1960s-1980s Enfield and Fermi high school yearbooks and early-1960s to mid-1980s telephone directories and newspapers.

Today we visit the 1984 Enfield High School yearbook and discover one of the simplest ads ever published, from one of Enfield's most beloved longtime businesses: the Enfield Dairy Bar.

Brothers Joseph and John Cimino and their cousin Francis Cimino started the restaurant at 182 South Road in 1965; in fact, veteran residents of Enfield still refer to it as "Cimino's." As the small ad says, ice cream and sandwiches were the specialties. Author's note: from a personal standpoint, Enfield Dairy Bar had the best milk shakes around, rivaled only by Shady Glen in Manchester.

Francis Cimino passed away in 1967. Eventually, Joseph Cimino sold his share of the business to his brother and started several other ventures, the most successful being the T'ville Tavern, which he ran from 1990 until 2005.

John Cimino passed away in 1995 at age 64; late that year, the building was sold to the Tobacco Valley Teachers Federal Credit Union, which still operates there today. Joseph Cimino died in 2015 at age 85.

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

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