Last week’s photo challenge was the 1st to stump everyone. No one knew that Lynn U. Miller’s shot showed a French poster of “Le Prince et la Danseuse,” the 1957 film starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Producer Milton H. Greene lived in Weston, and was a regular patron of Oscar’s. He gave the poster to owner Lee Papageorge about 10 years ago. That’s where it now hangs.
We’re back outdoors for this week’s challenge. Okay, it’s all snow covered today, but if you’ve seen it during better weather, click “Comments.” And if you’ve got any background info on it, please share what you know.
(Photo/Lynn U. Miller)
I think I have seen this outside the upper level entrance to Westport Library. It’s used to take mud off your boots before you go inside.
Golf shoe cleaner or for that matter a shoe cleaner in front of Inn at Zlongshore.
This is a boot/shoe cleaner used to remove dirt and horse manure before entering a building or residence.
This is the outside WHS at the step to clean your boots of outside detritus… Before walking into the home
It is a shoe and boot brush, yes. It is not, however, at any of the places guessed so far.
A golf cleat shoe cleaner at Longshore.
WESTPORT has two golf courses so it’s a golf shoe cleat cleaner at one of them.
Having not been in town for a while and not remembering very many (if any) at Longshore, I’ll go with Birchwood. Hope we don’t have to name the tee where it’s located.
It’s not at Longshore, Birchwood, the Westport Historical Society or the library. But it IS a shoe cleaner. Keep guessing.
Ok!! The Hunt Club!!
I just know it’s a device for cleaning snow, mud and horse dung (!) off a shoe or boot. They were common in New England in Colonial times and I saw many in Westport as a a kid, at different houses and businesses.
Richard Epstein’s office?
How about the Hunt Club
It’s a boot scraper for outside door entrance
Front door to young woman’s league on imperial
Keep on guessing…
Boot cleaner at long lots
Is it by your front door Dan?
That pic must have been taken before the New Year; there is no snow anywhere in sight.
The most deceiving and or making this photo tough is the item is quite old but the brushes are fairly new or in better condition
The Red Barn?
I think it’s the boot scraper at the back door at Town Hall.
Congratulations, Eileen — you got it! All those hours at Town Hall have definitely paid off big time now!
Which Town Hall?
The current one – the old Bedford Elementary School.
Here’s an excerpt from my failed detective work (which noted the various sorts or leaves, the sand mixed in, use at tennis courts, etc.). “It does not look recently used, and is not fastened very well to the stone/cement surface. Use in its current condition looks like litigation ready to happen!” Is that thing safe for fastidious would-be clean-shoed visitors hopping on one foot?
I coulda been a contender —- if I’d only checked my email earlier today! I’ve been scraping my boots at Westport Town Hall long enough to recognize the subject of this week’s challenge in under a nano-second.
OK so it is a boot/shoe cleaner/brusher/scraper. But I dont know where it is located. – in front of a municipal building? in front of the old Tavern on Main across from Oscars? -Gay Luster
As noted in the comments above, it’s the back entrance of Town Hall, on Myrtle Avenue.
Is it located in the back of Town Hall?
Yes.
So it’s Lynn U. Miller 1, readers 1 ?