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Furnishing Credentials

Furnishing Credentials

On the third floor of ACME Vintage Furniture, a 1950s radio ad bursts out of a gramophone like a shout from an old-timey police officer. A whistle squeals, and a...

Furnishing Credentials

On the third floor of ACME Vintage Furniture, a 1950s radio ad bursts out of a gramophone like a shout from an old-timey police officer. A whistle squeals, and a...

A penny-farthing replica outside The Devil’s Gear Bike Shop

Backpedaling

Daily Nutmeg is on vacation this week. Meantime, we’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the past few months. Like this one: I want to ride my bicycle. I...

Backpedaling

Daily Nutmeg is on vacation this week. Meantime, we’re republishing some of our favorite stories from the past few months. Like this one: I want to ride my bicycle. I...

Time Travel

Time Travel

From well into the 19th century to well into the 20th, trolleys were the method of choice for getting New Haveners where they needed to go. Although horse-drawn street trolleys...

Time Travel

From well into the 19th century to well into the 20th, trolleys were the method of choice for getting New Haveners where they needed to go. Although horse-drawn street trolleys...

Daggett Street Square

Daggett Street Diaspora

“What New Haven makes, makes New Haven.” That was the slogan gracing a 1952 brochure for the local Seamless Rubber Company, which manufactured a broad range of rubber goods starting...

Daggett Street Diaspora

“What New Haven makes, makes New Haven.” That was the slogan gracing a 1952 brochure for the local Seamless Rubber Company, which manufactured a broad range of rubber goods starting...

George Coy’s Telephone Switchboard

Phone Home

The extraordinariness of being able to make a phone call from the little gadget you keep in your pocket may not ring loud and clear, but try to imagine life...

Phone Home

The extraordinariness of being able to make a phone call from the little gadget you keep in your pocket may not ring loud and clear, but try to imagine life...

Grandfather clock at Thomas Darling House

Farm‘s Length

Rounding a bend in the Litchfield Turnpike, it’s easy to rush past the Thomas Darling House, a homestead stood still in time, blending easily into the pastoral backdrop of West...

Farm‘s Length

Rounding a bend in the Litchfield Turnpike, it’s easy to rush past the Thomas Darling House, a homestead stood still in time, blending easily into the pastoral backdrop of West...