Welcome to 81 Main Street!
Rather than lump this location with others on lower Main Street, I am giving this building its own page due to the images brought forth and a narrative that hopefully you‘ll find interesting. Most likely this will happen with other spots in the Main Street, East New London area as this website continues to expand.
81 Main Street stood at the south corner with John Street, today a short stretch of Atlantic Street that takes you into the Water Street Parking Garage. In early March, 1959, it looked like this:
Credit goes to The Day for having taken this picture and not discarded the negative from which this scanned image was produced through the efforts of Ben Panciera and Bailey Rodgers at the Lear Center for Special Collections at Connecticut College. They have helped me with other images from The Day that will appear elsewhere on this website.
to be continued…