Main Street Revisited

I received a lovely letter from Melinda K. Tillie regarding the "A Closer Look, Main Street Looking West" the March 26th, 2012 entry which was posted with the above photographs.

Melinda was born and brought up in East Haven and she lists the stores along Main Street as following:

Left side in photograph

Baltimore Brothers Meats (Main and Taylor)

Christ Church
House with gift Shop

The Diner (corner of Kirkham Ave.)

Right side in photograph

Clothes store

Wolfe's Bakery

Grand Union

Daytons (Women's Clothing)

Ice Cream store
Cleaners
Hair Salon

Barkers

Melinda also mentioned remembering Goodies, Smitty's Bar and Dairy Queen.

I was very encouraged by Melinda's letter and interest in this archival blog. Thank you Melinda!

Also relating to Main Street, I picked up some papers from an East Haven resident's estate at the Old Stone Church tag sale. Interestingly, among them were a card and a receipt from businesses at 281 and 224 Main Street as shown below.

Mary Connolly Repairs Archival Documents

Library volunteer, Mary Connolly has diligently been working to repair tears in an 1885 map of New Haven, shown in the lower picture. The map was literally in pieces before Mary set about to repair it. She is using Kizukushi, a thin long fibered Japanese tissue made from the Kozo plant used extensively in archival repair work.  Torn strips of the tissue are applied in a reversible process using wheat starch paste



Mary Connolly repairing rips and tears in 1930s issues of
The Branford Review and East Haven News





Mary just finished repairing this 1885 Price Lee
Company City Directory map