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.