Friday Flashback #67

Posted on November 24, 2017 | 12 Comments

Most Friday Flashbacks show how much Westport has changed.

This one shows how little it has, too.

The photo of the Saugatuck train station waiting room was taken around 1979.

It could have been yesterday.

(Photo courtesy of Ken Bernhard)

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12 responses to “Friday Flashback #67”

  1. Susan Feliciano | November 24, 2017 at 12:22 pm |

    I like that.

  2. Fred Cantor | November 24, 2017 at 12:25 pm |

    Superb photo; and I didn’t remember the book stand being there in the 1970s.

  3. Buell Neidlinger | November 24, 2017 at 12:25 pm |

    it could have been taken in 1949, except for that whateveryoucallit with
    the books and stuff in it wasn’t there then. neither were the garbage cans.
    not sure about the lady….

  4. Barry Tashian | November 24, 2017 at 12:34 pm |

    re: Saugutuck train Station waiting room.
    I don’t remember the book shelf.

  5. Morley Boyd | November 24, 2017 at 12:41 pm |

    Nice image, Ken.

  6. Joyce Barnhart | November 24, 2017 at 1:34 pm |

    Are there ticket agents there at any time of the day anymore? Or is it machines only to buy tickets?

  7. Jean Whitehead | November 24, 2017 at 1:42 pm |

    Nice! Brings back lots of memories….

  8. Dorian Barth | November 24, 2017 at 3:03 pm |

    It’s one of the most welcoming stations on the line. I hope someday they’ll put
    ticket machines in the station.

  9. Mark Renshaw | November 24, 2017 at 4:01 pm |

    Dan, having grown up in Westport during the 1950s, I can tell you that the photo could easily have been taken in 1955 as well!

  10. Dick Lowenstein | November 24, 2017 at 4:19 pm |

    It looks like a vintage scene, but it’s much more current, likely this century, when the Westport Library’s free-book carousel was first installed. It’s still being stocked by Library volunteers with free paperback books.

    Dick Lowenstein, Co-chair, Library Book Sale

  11. Carl Leaman | November 24, 2017 at 6:54 pm |

    find a picture from,say, 1965 before the Town renovated the station. Karl Dexter has a terrific photo of the exterior of the station 1965 which he made into a post card. Town art collection has a copy of the photograph..

  12. katherine bruan | November 24, 2017 at 7:14 pm |

    😍