The more traffic clogs downtown, the more important it is to look back at bygone days.
Our “Friday Flashback” feature has focused on “Fountain Square” before. The Post Road (then called State Street)/Main Street intersection was dominated by a fountain. (Actually, a horse trough. “Trough Square” does not have quite the same ring.)
Well after a century later, we’re still finding “new” images of that old scene.
(Postcard courtesy of Seth Schachter)
Seth Schachter sent this along. It’s from well before 1923. The YMCA had not yet been built on the east side of the Main and State (now Anthropologie).
The bones of some of the buildings on the west — still standing today — are recognizable.
As for the trolley, the horse, the women’s fashions, and the fountain/trough: I wonder what the early 20th century version of Westport’s Downtown Association thought.