A Pic of the Day last week showed the Merritt Parkway Saugatuck River bridge by the Westport Weston Family YMCA. Michael Tomashefsky captured an iconic local scene.
(Photo/Michael Tomashefsky)
It’s also timeless.
Compare the photo above — taken in 2023 — with this one by Peter Barlow, from around 1955:
(Photo/Peter Barlow)
Only Camp Mahackeno — not the entire Y — was at the site then.
There was a lot less traffic on the parkway.
But you can’t see any of that from these photos. It’s hard to believe they were taken nearly 70 years apart.
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