Lost Hartford: W. T. Grant, Honiss Oyster House, United States Hotel, Regal Theater and more

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  • Опубликовано: 24 дек 2024
  • In this video I talk about a section of State Street north of the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut. In the nineteenth century this was the location of the popular United States Hotel. The hotel would be replaced by The First National Bank building, the W. T. Grant store and the Regal Theatre. These were all torn down to make way for the State House Square development in the 1980s. The famed Honiss Oyster House, the origins of which went back to 1845, was located in the basement of the hotel and later the Grant’s store before it closed in 1982.
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    Links to some of the images used in this video:
    United States Hotel and Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford: hdl.handle.net/...
    United States Hotel, Hartford, Conn.: emuseum.chs.org...
    View of the United States Hotel, State Street, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Employees in front of Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Cracker Truck and Employees in Front of Honiss Oyster House: emuseum.chs.org...
    Businesses on Central Row, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Interior of Honiss Oyster House, 30 State Street, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Known from Coast to Coast Honiss's Seafood Specialists: emuseum.chs.org...
    Corner of Main and State Streets, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Corner of Main and State Streets, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    State Street, Looking East towards Constitution Plaza, Hartford: emuseum.chs.org...
    Timothy Keating on State Street, Hartford: digitalcatalog...
    State Street, City Hall Market, Hartford: hdl.handle.net/...
    United States Hotel: hdl.handle.net/...
    'Toward America for Relief', c. 1920-21: www.museum.ie/...
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  • @ceel2448
    @ceel2448 Год назад +2

    Thanks!

  • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
    @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 3 месяца назад +1

    Even I can remember the Marble Pillar. I'd often grab a draft beer there on my way home in the 1970s.

  • @goldtentee
    @goldtentee Год назад +1

    My Mother and I ate at Honiss when I was a youngster in the early 1960's. That photo with the with the pictures on the wall brought back some memories.😊

  • @carolyncasey8960
    @carolyncasey8960 Год назад +3

    I love this series. Thank you. BTW, it’s not Hone-iss, it’s Hawn-iss

    • @ceel2448
      @ceel2448 Год назад

      I thought so too, but because my parents pronounced it rhyming with con'-iss.

  • @oliverclothesoff5397
    @oliverclothesoff5397 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good stuff! Subscribed!

  • @boathousejoed1126
    @boathousejoed1126 Год назад +1

    Had a funny flashback, I can hear and smell those blue city buses.That distinctive sound of the doors opening and closing.

  • @MichaelRiley-x3z
    @MichaelRiley-x3z 6 месяцев назад +1

    I really enjoyed this video. I had the pleasure of dining at both the Honiss Oyster House and the Marble Pillar in their final years. It's a great old city and it's great to see it's history preserved. Thanks

  • @henryhall8743
    @henryhall8743 Год назад +1

    I worked at w t grants caferteria.from 1955 to 1958 afterschool.with mr.ohls.he ran the cafe. Fun time.

  • @junkandthangs
    @junkandthangs Год назад +1

    I gotta watch this one tomorrow while at work

  • @williammacdonnell6965
    @williammacdonnell6965 Год назад +1

    Dan another great presentation! Thanks so much!

  • @junkandthangs
    @junkandthangs Год назад +2

    Thanks Dan

  • @junkandthangs
    @junkandthangs Год назад +1

    Good Stuff Dan, born in late 1968 I only remember turning onto State Street from Main… don’t recall any of the stores, only the Isle of Safety

  • @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul
    @MarlinWilliams-ts5ul 3 месяца назад +1

    Lost Hartford. Sadly, nothing left.

  • @williammacdonnell6965
    @williammacdonnell6965 Год назад +1

    Dan you mentioned the architect Ernest Flagg who designed the Bank Building that became Hartford Federal Savings. Interesting that his older brother was Charles Noel Flagg the noted Hartford artist. The artist did paint the portrait of Mark Twain and the portrait of Horace Wells which is in the Wadsworth

  • @walterdenino
    @walterdenino Год назад +1

    hi dan i was looking for info and pictures on grandparents restaurant on 44 village street hartford ct

    • @historywithdansterner263
      @historywithdansterner263  Год назад +1

      I don't have much on Village Street right now but I may do more research on it in the future.

  • @patriciabruhn5672
    @patriciabruhn5672 Год назад

    This was great! Did anyone else keep getting ads in between?

  • @bigdaddysantos
    @bigdaddysantos Год назад +1

    Another excellent video - really appreciate this documentation of Harford's architectural wonders that were sacrificed for progress nd modernity.
    Much time spent at the Isle of Safety holding my mothers hand waiting for the next bus. Question: Was Sagan's cafeteria (1940s-60s) at the east end of today's State House Square or where Constitution Plaza's corner is?
    PS - I second the commenter's correct pronunciation of Honiss....

    • @historywithdansterner263
      @historywithdansterner263  Год назад +1

      Thanks! The cafeteria was on State Street. It will be mentioned in a future video.

  • @adamcampbell-jj4rn
    @adamcampbell-jj4rn 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @adamcampbell-jj4rn
    @adamcampbell-jj4rn 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @historywithdansterner263
      @historywithdansterner263  4 месяца назад +1

      Looking into it, I found an article about a W. T. Grant store opening in the Windsor Shopping Center in 1964. It was described as the largest Grant's in Connecticut and the largest on one floor in New England.

    • @adamcampbell-jj4rn
      @adamcampbell-jj4rn 4 месяца назад +1

      @historywithdansterner263 that's where, when I was about 5 years old, my mom bought me a pair of new sneakers. I remember there were about 50 or so pairs scrunched up against the window of the store advertising for about 2 or 3 dollars a pair! They king of looked like Addidas, but they weren't! Lol

  • @henryhall8743
    @henryhall8743 Год назад +1

    Everyone use to get food supply,s from w t grants i know because i use to bring to sage allen kresky newberrys and they would allways pay us back lol.henry hawk hall of the 5 bel airs