As the Delamar Westport claims its place as Westport’s premier — okay, only — hotel , it’s instructive to look back at earlier eras of lodging.
No, not to the Westport Inn and New Englander Motel. We’ve done that already.
We’ve also Friday Flashbacked the Westport Hotel, located smack downtown before it was demolished to become the original YMCA (now Anthropologie).
Today we remember Deri’s Tourist Camp:
According to James Gray, who sent the 1937 postcard (above), it may have been located at what is now the Westport Housing Authority’s Hidden Brook and Sasco Creek Village.
Those townhouses replaced what for decades was a trailer park.
Deri’s Tourist Camp looks a lot like Mathewson’s Tourist Cabins:
They may have pre-dated Deri’s. And their location has been described variously as the former trailer park, and just west of that, where the Delamar is now.
We doubt any “06880” readers are alive who actually stayed at Deri’s or Mathewson’s.
But if you remember them at all, click “Comments” below.
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I remember the Penguin on Hillspoint Road. Lots of stories about that place, some might even have had a semblance of truth.
I remember the trailer park I also remember Adam Starr when he was a camper at Longshore Club. We all had stories about the Penguin.
I knew a few people who lived in the trailer park.
Hi Jack,
Did you date any of them?
In the end, Mathewson’s cabins became hourly rentals. It was a more colorful town then.