Picture Windsor Locks - Then And Now

WINDSOR LOCKS, CT — We return today to the great photo book Images of America: Windsor Locks, compiled by Leslie Matthews Stansfield in 2003. On page 115, we find an aerial view of Main St. looking northwest over the Montgomery Mill building, taken just prior to the downtown redevelopment project of the early 1970s.

Save for the historic train station at the far right, none of these buildings survive today. In their places are small shopping plazas and the Windsor Locks Senior Center.

Here is a more contemporary look at the area, courtesy of Google Maps.

Do you have a photo of an old Windsor Locks business which no longer exists, to which you own the copyright, and which we could feature in this column? Email tim.jensen@patch.com.

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