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Abandoned Driving Range, Naugatuck, CT
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”]The best I can determine is that this driving range was originally the Valley Drive-In Threater on Rt. 63 in Naugatuck, Ct. The drive in operated from 1972 until 1980 when it was destroyed by fire. It was turned into a driving range. I do not know when the driving range closed.
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Abandoned East Hartford Family Drive In
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] East Hartford Family Drive-In John Fitch Blvd & Chapel Rd South Windsor CT 06074 This 600 car capacity drive-in theater was in operation from 1954 until 1984. At time of writing this site has been unused and abandoned for nearly 30 years. As a youngster in the 60’s it was always a huge, huge treat for your parents to take you to the Drive In. I came from solid but modest beginnings. So you cherished every trip to the drive in. We had one on the town line next door to the town we lived in. The children would always scamper joyfully up to the playground…
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Abandoned Asylums of New England – Book Review
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] ABANDONED ASYLUMS of NEW ENGLAND A pictorial table top book with sporadic essays. Images shown were taken by John Gray and are property of John Gray Photography. They cannot be copied or reproduced without express permission of John Gray. First a disclaimer: John Gray is married to my cousin and I consider him a friend. Now having said that I would simply choose to not write anything in my blog if I didn’t care for his work. However, that’s NOT the case. When I opened up his book my jaw dropped and I was mesmerized by the story telling images that just bellowed out distant voices of the…
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Holyoke’s Vanishing Mill’s
[wzslider height=”800″ info=”true” lightbox=”true”] Holyoke, MA is a small city of approx. 40,000 people situated in Western, MA just north of the City of Springfield. Once a thriving mill town made up of a diversified immigrant popular there now sits many abandoned buildings that once housed those companies. These photographs document a few of those businesses as seen today. These pictures were taken along the south side of the City near Canal Street.
