You Won't Believe How This Street Changed! [Asylum Street, Hartford]

My latest video is about the block of Asylum Street in downtown Hartford between Ann and Ford Streets. This was once the location of the beloved restaurants Gionfriddo's and Adajian's. Find out more about the history of this block and the many lost buildings and businesses that once existed here, like the old house that blocked Ann Street for over 80 years, a church that was turned into a movie theater, and a meat and fish market that flourished for 70 years.

This video features images from the Library of Congress, the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, and the Hartford History Center (Hartford Public Library)

CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) photos from Wikipedia user Kenneth C. Zirkel
Assets from: Envato Elements and Google Earth Studio

More about Thurston Munson's Adajian's murals: https://hyetert.org/2018/07/27/adajia...

Another webpage about Thurston Munson's Adajian's murals:
https://lakechapalaartists.com/?p=11083

My video about the Empire Theater:    • Hartford CT's Forgotten Movie Theater: the...  

My Substack post about J. P. Newton's Market in 1875 from the persepective of 1915: https://open.substack.com/pub/oldhart...

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