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Downtown Hartford
by Len Bourret
(Copyright 2004)

A brief glimpse of
Hartford, Connecticut
in the early 1950's.

The 1940's & 1950's: Audio, Diversity, Images,
Letters & Diaries...
http://www.authentichistory.com/1950s.html

Graph Showing Increase in the U.S. Population, 1950-2050
(See Images, Below)...
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/pyramid.html

Mark Twain and 'A Matter of Perspective'...
A Matter of Perspective

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Like an internet poet,
I kept submitting for
years,
receiving editors'
acceptances and
rejections,
words flowed out
of my mouth,
and out of my ears.

I ate at the Sagan
Cafeteria, when
money was low,
shopping at a 5-
and-10-cents' store
like F.W. Woolworth
or W.T. Grants, just
buying small things,
and listening to the
78rpm records, and
hypnotized by the scent
of hot-buttered popcorn.

I ate at Honiss' Restaurant,
when I had some dough,
shopping at a top-retail
store like G. Fox and
Company or Savitt
Jewelers, just buying
small things, and listening
to the radio sounds of
WCCC, and hypnotized
by Our Gal Sunday,
InnerSanctum, Johnny
Dollar, and Helen Trent.

And, there was The State
Theater, with 'ol Blue Eyes,
Frank Sinatra,
wowing the bobbysoxers,
along with Pattie Page and
The Tennessee Waltz.

Dancing with my darling,
until the wee hours of
Kate Smith's When the
Moon Came Over the
Mountain, and I sang
You are My Sunshine,
before the Everly Brothers
and Bye, Bye, Love.

Before Elvis Presley began
shaking his hips,
the Beatles sang I Wanna
Hold Your Hand,
and Mart Crowley's Boys
in the Band.

After the Industrial Revolution
began a Technological Change,
and the 1960's replaced the
cultures of the 1940's and
the 1950's.

Like the 1930's replaced
the 1920's flapper girls,
The Charleston, and The
Varsity Drag,
Al Jolson in Burlesque
introduced The Talkies,
when Charlie Chaplin,
Mary Pickford, and
Douglas Fairbanks
were in The Silents,
Sophie Tucker sang
in Hartford,
Ann Corio and Gypsy
Rose Lee brought
class to The Stag,
before The Circus
set people on fire.

Enjoying cotton candy,
peanuts, and hot dogs,
while strolling, so very
nostalgically and so very
romantically, through the
early days of Bushnell
Park.

With the advent of the
airplane, the bus, and
the train.

Before the Kennedy
and Martin Luther
King tragedies,
the Nixon, Clinton,
and Rowland political
scandals,
when people adhered
to and respected
ethical, moral, and
spiritual handles,
standing up for their
individual values and
cherished beliefs.

The baby boomers'
were born,
when World War II
and Hiroshima were,
supposedly, to bring
War to an end.

But more Wars, in
Korea and Vietnam,
were just round the
bend.

Before September
11th, 2002.

Struggling for peace.

Will War never end?

And, then there was
black-and-white
television, on small
iddy-bitty, non-silver
screens,
giving us a picture of
vast wasteland scenes.

WTIC and Bob Steele,
Doris Day's Que Sara
Que Sara,
before the 1960's and
the New Millennium.

What Will Be Will Be.

During Hollywood's
Golden Years, when
The Silent-Era movie
stars were mostly
forgotten, and before
America began down-
sizing, going globally
insane.

'Silents', please.
Or, should I say
'Silence'?


About the Author and 'Aaron & Esther Are Alive & Well,
& Living in New York' (Copyright 2004, Len Bourret)...
http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ppa350.html#fp10

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