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Picture Somers - Then And Now
An old photograph and brief story from Somers history, and how that site appears today.
SOMERS, CT — Today we return to the amazing photo book, Images of America: Somers, compiled in 2001 by Jeanne Kenyon DeBell for the Somers Historical Society. On page 80 is an adorable little building at the corner of Main Street and Sokol Road, pictured 95 years ago.
From this small site, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brunell sold Pan-Am gasoline and oil, as well as ice cream from the Somers Creamery. Pan-Am eventually merged with Standard Oil of Indiana in 1954 to form Amoco.
Below is a recent photo, taken by yours truly, of the small building at that junction.
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