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I’m surprised there’s no Beecher Street in Hartford

Pratt St! The best!

Wow... I'll be back to watch this

I was really enjoying this until I saw that ugly brick apartment building built on top of the location.

Keep up the good work

damn, the 60's is when Hartford died.

Was there also a Grants just north in Windsor at the Windsor Shopping Center?

Walked by all that in Hartford Ct. to many times to count!

Excellent series of videos

The only nice street left in Hartford.

What a monstrosity that stiltz building is.

It’s amazing that anything is left in Hartford . The neighborhoods are in ruin and most of any beautiful grand commercial buildings are gone.

Whe u first saw the Barber house I was stunned. It's so beautiful and I could see it was absolutely something special. I'm so glad to finally know that my instincts were correct. I even stopped and snapped some pictures of it.

I did watch all of it and previous video

Until August 1975, I lived on Charter Oak Avenue, across from Capewell Manufacturing, not so far from Richard J. Kinsella school, Colt Park, The Polish Home, The Church of the Good Shepard etc. I can't believe it took me until now, 2024, to learn this info!😂 Thank you!❤ (Please forgive me if I didn't use the right names... I was just a kid and only knew the names my parents called these places😊)

Hi Dan! I really enjoy your videos, especially since no one really talks about the history of Hartford. One question though, after researching all these great buildings now lost to history, is Hartford better off not or would Hartford be better off still having some of these great buildings still around? Also, what was at the site of the Hartford Hilton hotel before it was torn down for a World Trade Center that never materializedid and is now a parking lot?

All these were destroyed for Constitution Plaza. Yes for years we enjoyed its beauty. But now it isn’t even lite up for Christmas. The fireworks are gone for 4th of July. No one is enjoying the river front because money is going elsewhere

Hi Dan, love your videos. Have you ever considered doing a video on the Regional Market? I was born in Hartford at the old McCook hospital circa 1959.

These are very bitter sweet videos. The loss of one of Americas oldest once wealthy cities to an office park surrounded by ghettos. In one of the wealthiest states aside from New Haven all our big cities are a mess of decay lost architecture , intrusive highways and ugly modern crap. At least New Haven with its intrusive highways and swaths of lost buildings have beautiful commercial blocks. Wealthy neighborhoods with blocks of mansions, Yale University and surviving Victorian neighborhoods even with all the plastic siding.

One missing - Cinema City - the four screen theater near the airport. Newer than some of Hartford's theaters, it struggled on past the millennium before being demolished. Known for showing independent and foreign films, it provided a change from other theaters' offerings.

It would have been nice if a sentence or two was included to describe how they were assembled for the display and then disassembled for storage the rest of the year. How long did it take to set up the display? Where are the parts of the display today.

Excellent!

Excellent! Amazing that you could find all those old photographs to tell the story properly.

Thanks for another excellent pictorial essay on Hartford's lost architectural golden era.

Great history lesson about the many changes and expansions of Hartford Hospital. Well done.

I was a direct ancestor, Richard Webb I, who was one of eight founders of Hartford, CT.

Great video Dan!

Excellent video once again.

This was a lot of work! Thank you.

Great video Dan. Do you know if that's the same F.D. water tower that now lives at the Ct. Firefighters Historical Society in Manchester? I'd love to see you do videos on some of Hartford's other famous fires, like the Circus Fire and the Hartford Hospital fire.

The taxpayers of Hartford paid to build both the Yard Goat baseball field and the Hartford Civic Center and its a dishonor to them to exclusively refer to those places with a commercial name. When these places need maintenance, who pays for it? The commercial sponsors will just pull out and not give a damn when the places make them look bad. If these guys want to pay to advertise at the taxpayers expense insist they refer to the places as The Yard Goat stadium sponsored by Dunkin or The Hartford Civic Center sponsored by XL. We should not let big business take credit for the sacrifices and hard work our community put into having these facilities. Truly the taxpayers should be insulted not to be acknowledged for the existance of their creations.

There you have it folks. Mystery solved.

Love hearing about the history of Hartford. It seemed like it used to be a great city.

Thanks much for this!

Remember the grand plan for the Skywalker, whatever happened to that?

We humans sure as so stupid. They ruined hartford to add highways, thinking it would make city better. Hartford is one of worst cities on America. It's a joke. laughing stoke. The entire city is designed so bad. I hate Hartford with so much passion. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about Hartford. Oh and remember "Hartford new England rising star" slogan, those employees that created they should be in jail or that insanity lie.

26:50 Windsor Ave is now Main Street, Fire House is still there.

Is there a corner of Trumbull and Ann… 🤔

Always look forward to your videos...thanks

I work right thre by the river, and have viewes of highway and river every day .its enraging what htey did...so ugly. Your 4:05 clip, imagine if that was still hartford today, no highways and shops and apartments righ ton the river..hearing the highway all day and ruining the river experience is f*** BS.