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 1990 Fermi High School yearbook, and an ad from a national corporation formerly headquartered in town: Dairy Mart.

The company's origins date back to 1949 in Springfield, Mass., when Charles Nirenberg began selling ice cream from the back of his truck in a gas station parking lot. He opened his first convenience store, Dairy Land, in 1957, and soon changed the name to Dairy Mart.

By 1974, Nirenberg was operating a chain of 37 stores, and in 1975, his company relocated its headquarters to 240 South Road in Enfield. In 1997, the company relocated again, this time to Ohio, where it remains a staple of middle America with over 650 stores.

Charles Nirenberg passed away in Nov. 2014 at age 90.

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.