Caldor Rainbow Returns
Steely Dan took almost 20 years to come back with Two Against Nature. Supertramp lost the high-pitched guy and still came back. Sure, they haven't put out an album in almost ten years but I digress....
View ArticleAround Plainedge; circa 1976
Who doesn't love historic photos? Furthermore, who doesn't love historic photos of shopping centers? From the mid-70s? Jackpot! Luckilly, the Plainedge Public Library of working class town Plainedge,...
View Article40-Year KFCs Closed In Old Saybrook and New London
The corner street fried-chicken fixture for almost 40 years sits vacantly, just down the road from the busy business epicenter of US-1 in Old Saybrook. Longtime owner Douglas J. Beach sold his...
View ArticleWhat Was Riverview Plaza?
A friend of mine recently stumbled on an oddball site known as The Manchester Mall on Main St. in Manchester, CT. It's not a mall, really. Instead, it was a limited indoor retail space that may have...
View ArticleTake Me Back To Holyoke Mall '82
Wood you like to take a ride on the Ingleside? Turn the time circuits on, we're going back to 1982!Last month, The Caldor Rainbow has been out-of-the-blue obsessive about the Holyoke Mall's history in...
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