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For two years in a row, I participated in the Milford Summer Theater Workshop. Our director was Robert Ducharme. Milford, CT. July 1975
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Too cool to smile (me at age 15 in the glasses), Mom on the left and her father at right. Sis with wearing pigtails in the back. Milford Connecticut. Aug 1974.
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Up Merwin Ave from us lived Emerson A. Daniels. He was a cranky old guy and owned this pickup truck. If U know what kind of truck this is, please leave a comment. Milford Connecitcut. Aug 1971
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My Aunt, Dad, Uncle and Mom enjoy a lobster picnic somewhere on the shoreline in Connecticut. The cars of that era are parked by the beach. July 1955.
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Relaxing on a bench at the Anchor Beach with Mom and my new sister wearing a cupie hat. (the trike was my main transportation vehicle). Milford Connecticut. Aug 1962
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While perusing YouTube, I found a video about the Connecticut Post Mall where the creator "borrowed" two of my 1970s photos from Flickr. Milford, CT.
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The golden light of a late summer afternoon looking to Rock St, Seabreeze Ave and Platt's Hill in the distance. Milford Connecticut. July 1973
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Yours Truly just hanging out by a friend's house while a car zooms by on Edgefield Ave in front of Sloppy Joe's restaurant. Aug 1973. Milford Connecticut.
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Sloppy Joe's restaurant as it appeared in July 1969 at the corner of Merwin and Hillside Avenues. I took this with my Kodak 104 camera. Milford Connecticut.
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The log which returned every summer for years. Dad at left and my girlfriend's sister at right. Milford Connecticut. July 1967.
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More summer memories from the early 1970s. Crescent Beach looking down from one of the rock outcroppings. Woodmont, Connecticut. July 1972
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Mom in her green bathing suit along with friends enjoying the Anchor Beach on a hot and hazy day in August 1963. Milford Connecticut.
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Yours Truly at the top of Platt's Hill with a found treasure hubcap in the woods. Milford, Connecticut. Aug 1973.
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Summer memories from 51 years ago. A friend's kid brother acting goofy for the camera. Milford, Connecticut. Aug 1973
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Kodachrome seems to look new forever. Mom's baby shower for my kid sister as taken by my Dad. Milford, Connecticut. July 1962.
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Yours Truly in an abandoned Ford Galaxy dumped in a field at the end of Seabreeze Avenue. Milford CT. Aug 1973
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When this neighborhood in Milford, CT was a beach resort in the early 20th century, the Sauter Hotel was once of the places where tourists used to stay. By 1958, it was up for sale and this is a real estate photo of the old hotel.
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More summer memories from 50 years ago. You can see Rock Street and a yellow 1975 Pontiac parked there. The background shows many colorful cars parked in the Surf Club parking lot. I sure miss these days! Milford CT. Aug 1973.
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Hard to believe that this was 51 years ago! My Mom on the right, my cousin in the center wearing a rubber cap and my uncle holding a very colorful swimming floatie. Milford, CT. Aug 1972
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The view of Long Island Sound's shoreline as it appears in 2023. At one time, there was a steep hill here called "Platts Hill", which was leveled in the 1990s to build new houses. Milford, CT.
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If you were 12 years old in the early 1970s, chances are your room looked like mine. Posters and pennants from all the tourist places your parents drove your family to. Even the cover of a Vinnie's Pizza box. Milford, CT. Aug 1972
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My friends and I attended the Woodmont Day celebrations at the Anchor beach. It was really nice to see all these new and shiny cars parked on Beach Avenue. That's Signal Rock with the flag on the left. Milford, CT. July 1917
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After an extremely successful game of Monopoly, I finally have enough cash to just throw it in the air and give it away for free to friends. Milford CT. Aug 1972
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Summer life from 56 years ago. A young me in the center, my first girlfriend at right and her sister at left. My sister swims in a blowup duckie. That large log would return every summer for a long time! Milford CT. Aug 1967.
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OK, Connecticut old timers.... do you remember where this was? They had a great selection of new and used records as well as hundreds of CDs. Aug 1987.
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MOM!! It's not fair! How come my sister gets a nice orange ball and all I get are these crappy dented hub caps? You love her more! Whaaaa... (Aug 1963).
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Trouble in paradise. After being a beach resort neighborhood for roughly 80 years, by the mid 1960s there were quite a few old abandoned and decrepit beach cottages on the Long Island shoreline. Milford CT. Feb 1966.
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Merwin's Beach with my LA cousins, my sister and one of their friends creating sand cities at low tide. The Surf Club cabanas at left. Every single one of those cottages has been replaced by expensive houses and condos. Milford CT. Aug 1973
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KRRRRUNCH! End of the road for yet another 19th century cottage on Merwin Avenue. Dozens were built to accommodate the tourists who once came here for the beach life. By the '70s, many were either abandoned or uninhabitable. Milford CT. Aug 1974
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Two boys fishing in a wood rowboat near the brand new and still unfinished Poli Mansion built for silent movie theatrical magnate Sylvester Poli. The waterfront mansion was named Villa Rosa after his wife Rosa Leverone. Milford CT. 1913
