Today’s Friday Flashback is a 3-fer.
(Photo/Clayton Liotta via Facebook)
This circa-1976 image reminds us of when:
- Fairfield Furniture was the long-time occupant of National Hall. (FUN FACT: After Arthur Tauck bought the building — which once served as a bank, newspaper office, town meeting hall and the first site of Staples High School — with plans to turn it into a boutique hotel, he found tremendous structural damage. The roof had been weakened by decades of bird droppings.)
- There were woods — not a mammoth office building — on Wright Street, behind Wilton Road.
- Winters were cold enough to freeze the Saugatuck River.
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