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Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts. (more…)

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chapel-orange(c1955)_940

Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts. (more…)

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View from Chapel and Orange circa 1955

Folks shopped there, they ate there, they bought cigarettes and alcohol there. Celebrities went there to tout plays and movies coming to the downtown theaters, sometimes through live radio broadcasts. Located at the hub of the city’s extensive network of trolleys, and just a few blocks from the Yale campus and a bustling area of […]

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View from Chapel and Orange circa 1955, courtesy of Colin M. Caplan

It’s the holiday shopping season. It’s also been a year in which there’s been an awful lot happening downtown, from the relocation of Gateway Community College to reopening of Yale Art Gallery to highway projects easing people’s journeys into the city. It’s enough to make you reminisce about the New Haven department stores that were […]

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