The 90-year-old downtown Y is in its death throes this weekend.
This is the final day for the institution that since 1923 stood handsomely on the corner of the Post Road and Main Street. (And, less elegantly, on Church Lane since 1978.) It has withstood floods, hurricanes, Prohibition, the rise of post-war suburbia and the decline of mom-and-pop shops — plus much, much more.
Tomorrow, the Y is outta there. The new Mahackeno facility — bright, shiny, fresh, airy and modern — opens at 5:30 a.m.
We will miss plenty about the downtown Y. Like this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
And this:
A new day is dawning.
At Mahackeno — and downtown.