Some of the most nostalgic photos of CT at Christmas Time from the Memory Lane
Christmas time has been the most beautiful time of the year and it has remaining the same for decades and centuries. When it comes to Connecticut, we celebrate christmas like no one else does. Over the years the tradition of sharing and caring and gifting to our loved ones has not changed. We have been a great community and the gifting tradition is just not limited to friends and families. Also we have seen many of our main streets gone through major renovation over the years and the black and white photos from the past would take us back to the memory lane.
Hillyer College Students Wrap Presents for Circus Fire Victims – 1944
| Three Hillyer College students wrap Christmas gifts to deliver to children at the Municipal Hospital in Hartford. Many of the children in the hospital were victims of the July 6, 1944 Hartford Circus Fire. From left to right are Ruth Hill, Josephine Zocco and Helen Stuart. In 1957, Hillyer College joined with three other schools to create the University of Hartford. |
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Christmas gathering, Hartford way back in 1908
Five women and a man pose in an interior beside a fireplace. One woman and the man are elderly. A candlestick, a vase of flowers and two mugs or steins are on the mantle. A framed portrait is to the left. A lamp, probably a gaslight, is on the wall. Typewritten note beneath image: “A Christmas gathering at 1010 / 1908.” Inscribed on back: “Toy [or Joy] family of Hartford.”
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In 1918 this gigantic Christmas tree stood in front of the municipal building in Hartford.
View of a Christmas tree in front of the Hartford Municipal Building, January 2, 1918. Pedestrians can be seen on the sidewalk. A street sweeper stands next to a parked car to the right.
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The downtown Bridgeport area was enlightened with lights at Christmastime in the mid 1950s
| This view of Bridgeport’s Main Street looks north from the Cannon Street intersection. The street is brightly lit and decorated for the Holidays and crowds of shoppers fill the area. The light colored, art deco era F.W. Woolworth’s building, located on the northwest corner of Main and Fairfield Avenue, can be seen at the center and center-left. The Community Chest’s Red Leaf Fund campaign symbol hangs over the building’s entrance. |
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Downtown Hartford in 1959 at the G. Fox Department Store during Christmas
Night view from across Main Street Hartford of G. Fox’s 1959 Christmas marquee depicting a colonial village at Christmas with historic Connecticut landmarks built to scale by John Oldham Studios in Wethersfield.
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It’s really a nostalgic feeing to witness decades of Christmas tradition moving ahead with the level of sympathy and caring growing among the fellow netizens of our state.