Last week’s Photo Challenge was quite location-specific.
Unless you live in the extreme northeast corner of Westport — near where Cross Highway dips into Sturges Highway — or unless you spend a lot of time driving to, say, the Patterson Club — you would not have know that spot, where what may be our town’s saddest and loneliest stop sign sits. (Click here to see.)
Mark Yurkiw, Lynn Untermeyer Miller and Shawn Liberty — at least 2 of whom have homes nearby — were the only 3 to respond correctly.
I’ll try to make up for that sometime soon. Maybe Saugatuck Shores …
Meanwhile, it’s interesting that neither Cross nor Sturges is an actual “highway” — at least, not in the modern sense of the word.
But the term originally meant simply a main, direct road connecting towns. Back in the day, these were major thoroughfares.
Without the need for even a flimsy stop sign.
Here’s today’s Photo Challenge. If you know where you’d see this, click “Comments” below. HINT: Though it’s near I-95, it’s not at South of the Border.
(Photo/DinkinESH Fotografix)
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Quatros Hermanos next to Dunvilles on Saugatuck Ave
Viva Zapata
Quatro Hermanos!
A sombrero atop 4 Brothers Restaurant. Bottom of Sunrise hill.
Saugatuck Ave near foot of Sunrise
Quatros Hermanos
republican headquarters ?
Quatros hermano
quarto hermanos!
Quatros Hermanos.
It can be hard to notice, but much of Westport was laid out as a grid in the late 1600s. It can be especially hard to notice at the intersection of the then important roads of Cross Highway and Sturges Highway because that location was reconfigured for the Merritt Parkway over 250 years later. But even now if you look at a full map of Westport, you can clearly see the parallel roads of Sturges Highway, Bayberry Lane, North Avenue, Roseville Road, and Compo Road, within which “long lots” were distributed by the Town to the early farm families. Cross Highway was so-called because it ran across the long lots, and Long Lots Road is where the long lots started. The “long lots” that were distributed to farm families from within this grid ranged in width from 50 feet to perhaps 1,000 feet or more, but could run for miles into the not-yet-surveyed interior wilderness.
Quatros Hermanos/4 Brothers etc. 43 Saugatuck Ave. Went up 4-5 weeks ago. Pretty cool..
Yes, it’s the Mexican restaurant on Saugatuck Avenue, at the foot of Sunrise. But it’s interesting that everyone has misspelled it. They call themselves “Cuatros Hermanos” — not “Quatros.” Interesting.
And thanks, Wendy, for the great history lesson about last week’s Photo Challenge!
Not to nit-pick but Saugatuck Ave. at the foot of Sunrise…
Not nit-picking at all. Keeping me on my toes. It’s been fixed. Thank you, Dave!
Quattro Hermanos!!
4 brothers Mexican restaurant
When reading the comments on that stop sign, I thought, wait a minute, that stop sign is actually in Fairfield… As you stated in today’s photo challenge in referring back to that stop sign, the Merritt Pkwy caused that intersection to shift, becoming 100% located in Fairfield, during construction in the 1930’s. I checked a town of Westport street map, and as you come south on Sturges, with the Merritt on your right, the road swings east into Fairfield, then Cross Hwy combines with Sturges for several hundred feet, passing under the curved 1930’s vintage Merritt parkway overpass, and Cross Hwy then goes right, up the hill towards Primrose Lane. And Sturges continues south towards Long Lots.
Sturges is actually located on the town line dividing Fairfield from Westport from Long Lots up to Cross Hwy intersection, then Cross Hwy enters Fairfield until passing under the overpass and going a short distance up Sturges on the left.
So, if your photo challenge is for objects located within Westports boundaries then that stop sign was ‘off limit’ as it’s 100% in Fairfield!!
4 brothers mexican restaurant
Viva Zapata