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Views of Fairfield, Connecticut
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After collecting a number of postcards showing the town in "the good old days" I thought it might be interesting
to try to capture the same camera angles of these landmarks as they appear today. I found it a bit trickier than I had
imagined with traffic from vehicles and pedestrians making photography an adventure at times! For better or worse, here they are...a look
at Fairfield, past and present...
The Fairfield Public Library
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The Fairfield Public Library, as it appears in 2006. Always bustling, the building stretches around the corner onto the Post Road. The old black double doors are strictly for decorative purposes.
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The library as shown in this early 20th century postcard. To the extreme left is a notation made by the postcard's sender, marking the location of her house on the Post Road. I believe the postcard may have been sent by two of the
daughters of Livingston Smith, who was sexton of the First Congregational Church and who lived on the Post Road in the early part of the century.
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COMMUNITY THEATER
CORNER OF THE POST ROAD
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Looking from in front of the library across the street to the Community theater. (Don't even ask what time one has to get up on a Sunday morning to snap a photo without any cars in it!) The middle tree is obscuring the Community marque.
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"Community Building and the Center", postmarked 1938, shows the theater corner and the stores and the Center Restaurant next door. The vehicles
parked around the building include a Huber's Ice Cream truck.
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THE COMMUNITY THEATER
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Same corner, trees partially obscuring the front of the theater.
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Black & white postcard dated ???
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THE SUN TAVERN
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The tavern as it looked on a very sunny day.
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The Sun Tavern, located on the Old Post Road, behind Town Hall.
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