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My father had worked at Savitt’s part-time in the 50s as a UConn student (his father, who worked at CBT, had arranged the job) and he got me a similar gig in the early 80s. Wow! What an amazing experience for this sheltered suburban white boy! From “What’s that?”; “it’s a BAGEL, son!”, to acting as bag-man on quick trips to the tiny jewelers upstairs in other buildings along Asylum who’d do the one-hour turnaround ring-sizing etc., to (shhhh) buying alcohol for church youth trips at downtown liquor stores with much more lenient ID policies - aka none - than the stores in my town, to trying (and utterly failing ha ha…such a nerd!) to make it with the Black and Portuguese girls who worked there (the store had a very diverse staff), to watching everyone stand up a little straighter when Mr. Savitt would walk in, I had an amazing set of experiences working at “35 Asylum Street, Haaaaartford!”

In 1964 I sold the Hartford Courant newspapers at the Travelers entrance on Central Row. I was 14 at the time. On countless mornings as I arrived to set up my stand inside the lobby of Travelers I would find a hot chocolate and an egg sandwich sitting on the stacks of newspapers. This was done by one of the staff of the Marble Pillar. What a comfort this was to a poor boy from Dutch Point. I don't remember the employees name who was so kind to me. Amazingly during my senior year at Hartford High School I got a job at the Marble Pillar serving behind the counter and delivering meals to the customers sitting at the tables. There was one regular customer who stopped in after his work nearly every day a bought just one beer and then would leave to catch his bus. I acquired a taste for the delicious German food there since i was only charged half price as an employee. Sadly there was not much business in those days which of course made me sad because i loved the place and so wanted it to succeed. I wish that i could have taken my children to share in my history. Honiss was a place I loved to eat those large full belly fried claims as well as their sword fish. What an amazing atmosphere to eat in with all the interesting pictures mounted wall to wall. It was my favorite restaurant in Hartford until my move to Raleigh in 1980. So sad to not have those two nostalgic dining places cease to be there.

What is the name of the business next to JJ Newberrys? Tks

My wedding cake was made by the basement restaurant and I met my husband there!

I remember the great cherry soda in the basement run by Ira Fink!

I was a buyer in the late 70’s, early 80’s..when Lafayette keeny and Normand Allen. Great memories and a blast with new York trips with. My fellow buyer friends!

Muy buen video😊

Bob Steele and 'P.O.M.G.!' Who could forget? Grew up listening to WTIC. Great times.

Cant be any harder to take the spire down and it's cap stone than it was to lift the capstone up and build the spire in the first place, they would have used scaffolding around all sides and planking.

Does anyone know how the town council vote to approve the development broke along party lines?

Thanks for another well done video!!

The Avery Memorial Theater at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art started screening movies when it opened in 1934 and still does to this day.

Yikes, what a disaster

I didn't know you had books for sale! I'm definitely getting one or both! Thanks for the work you do man! Keep up the great work!

I read somewhere recently that the Pride of Hartford is being restored in Maine and is eventually going to Jay Leno's collection. I hope you get to do a history of the Hartford Fire Department at some point.

Love this and GFox especially at Christmas ❤

The 2 pics at 22:22 break my heart. Showing the school before and after the highway. What a loss! Thanks for posting these videos!

I wish they left Hartford alone. Urban renewal destroyed so many great buildings!

Fascinating video. I have a 1929Ford Tudor that was originally sold by Brown Thomson and remained in the area until 1985 when I bought it and it now resides in Cromwell CT

Morse College - my father went there after he graduated high school in 1950. He then got a job at the defunct Seth Thomas clocks in Thomaston, worked there for a month and then was drafted into the army and sent to Korea.

I also worked at 99 Pratt Street for an oral surgeon in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. We walked across the street to a little luncheonette where they had the best tuna sandwiches. Great memories!

I’m trying to find out about a Ford’s market in Hartford. The owner owned the house at 1123 Windsor Avenue in Windsor which was called Ford’s mansion. The house was build by the Cooks who also had a market in Hartford. Thanks

Dan: Another great video! You did a great job with your presentation for the 1892 Club! 😊

Another awesome job, I had always wondered where H.F.D. Company #4 was located prior to moving into Pearl St. HQ. Beautiful fire station.

I remember that parking garage! I was fascinated with it when I was a kid. My doctor's office was across from it on the South side of Asylum St. (Dr. Hurwitz)

Great video! Tragically, the Hotel Hartford was the site of the 1964 slaying of Hartford Police Officer Henry Jennings who was staked out awaiting the return to a hotel room the suspect in the nonfatal shooting of another Hartford officer who hours earlier had interrupted an overnight burglary of a store on Asylum Street.

Could the present day Hartford look any worse than the classic buildings that were torn down? as the song goes....'put up a parking lot' City planners of the 20th century must have flunked out of school.

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thank you Dan. I wish that more history remained instead of parking lots. im a child of the 60s.

Very cool! Thanks for posting your awesome content!

Used to come here all the time as a kid

Class of 1963, last to graduate from the old school. Watched the wrecking ball knock down the Broad Street building from the other side of the street. Long-time principal Thomas Quirk, just retired, died at the wheel of his car just outside the school on Broad Street one morning in 1963. We all saw his black Caddy empty at the curb.

I worked as a stock boy for G Fox in late 1971, to early 1972, in the mezzanine luggage dept, just above the Main/1st floor. Being on break, or at dinner, provided opportunities to wander the store. There are a lot of stories to tell, but suffice it to say, that I relished the opportunity to be here at Christmas time. The perfume counter, on the first floor, was lined with pretty sales ladies, while customers on the other side of the counter were 4 or 5 deep!

Thank God for the Taylor collections huh?!? He took a lot of pics!

I love this channel and your content! I was in Walgreens the other day, and was reading a book on historic Hartford. I saw a lot of buildings and neighborhoods you talked about. It's amazing what was torn down and how the city has changed. One book was about the trollies in Hartford which was very interesting. Thanks for all you do Dan! History with you is always fascinating!

Hi Dan, thank you for the trip down memory lane with Hartford's early restaurants. I'm Mickey Miano's daughter, Michele,and it was so heartwarming to once again hear stories I grew up with and see pictures of the old east side. I went to St. Anthony's School also on Market St. down from dad's restaurant. One last thing I want to remind you of. Dad went to bat against the city fathers and Travelers Insurance Co. that they were taking the people out of the city and replacing them with buildings. I'd also like to mention Ton Condon, a reporter with the Htfd Times and Courant, who died this past week who also wrote about old Hartford. Thank you for your beautiful words.

As always a great video. I was born in 1958 and my memory of Front Street was more the pungent smells of Italian Grocery stores.

My first 10 years - Honiara & Marble Pillar - really felt like the most Hartfordesque thing

I worked the counter at Bunny's across the street from "the chicken man" in the summer of 1967! The wonderful Lantierie' s Bakery was next door & the Hartford boxers, the Bellisanno brothers, who boxed under the names Kingfish, Codfish & Goldfish Bellisano lived over the diner(Bunny's) and were always such gentlemen to the teenage waitress (me) working downstairs for the summer ❣️

Would really like to see a bit of history about Trumbel Street from Church Street and the building of 280 Trumbull all the way down to the south of Jewel Street. I remember just one storefront in that area that sold cameras and developed film. I believe the space was divided up and now holds an empty storefront, a deli, and a now-gone Dunkin Donuts.

I messaged you about my father growing up in the Palotti building that was on the corner of Morgan and Front street, I have a good picture of the front of the building with the pool hall downstairs and the apartments up stairs if your interested.

My Father talked about all these places and I was taken there by him to the ones that were open in my lifetime. Pippie's was the go stop for family birthdays.

Boxing great, Willie Pep would be seated, alone, and reading the newspaper at Frank's on Asylum St. If memory serves, the establishment would open at 4 pm, for dinner. It was quiet at 4, and there were just a couple of people present at that time. The Parma Restaurant was just a couple of doors, down, on the same side. Thank you, Dan.

❤ it ! Thank you for all you do!

Yes, I was born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut. I remember going downtown. They had everything downtown JJ Newberry love to go in shop sit at the diner inside the store and eat 🥰🥰🥰

My family owned the Pillar from 1952-1986 (the Krauss family). Oh the stories we could tell. I met my husband there while I was waitressing and my brother met his wife while he was working as head chef. My parents are still alive today. Thank you for this video brings back so many memories!

I worked at the Travelers and ate there daily when the Krauss family owned the Marble Pillar. The food was fabulous. I married their beautiful daughter!

This week, my manager was talking about Marble Pillar. I don't recall. Since when it closed I think that I was in the 8th grade.

How beautiful 19th century Hartford was.

I loved Honiss’s and the Marble Pillar. Another favorite was Sagan’s cafeteria on the corner of Constitution Boulevard and Market street if I remember correctly.