It's amazing how semi-rural our neighborhood used to be. Old 19th century beach rental cottages lined the shoreline. Looking from Rock Street to Merwin Ave. The Goodyear blimp flies over Long Island Sound. Milford CT. Aug 1964
Since the early 1900s, this area was a beach resort on Long Island Sound. Filled with rental cottages, it was a summer place for generations of people.
The buildings across the street were torn down in 1965. For just one summer, 1966, we had direct line of site to Long Island Sound from our house on Rock Street (just a glimpse of our house on the right with pink shingles).
In 1967, The Surf Club West built a modern pool club exactly where those cottages stood for almost 70 years.
Below is a view from 1966 where we could actually see the beach after the cottages were demolished and before the Surf Club built its facilities on this site.
It's amazing how semi-rural our neighborhood used to be. Old 19th century beach rental cottages lined the shoreline. Looking from Rock Street to Merwin Ave. The Goodyear blimp flies over Long Island Sound. Milford CT. Aug 1964
Since the early 1900s, this area was a beach resort on Long Island Sound. Filled with rental cottages, it was a summer place for generations of people.
The buildings across the street were torn down in 1965. For just one summer, 1966, we had direct line of site to Long Island Sound from our house on Rock Street (just a glimpse of our house on the right with pink shingles).
In 1967, The Surf Club West built a modern pool club exactly where those cottages stood for almost 70 years.
Below is a view from 1966 where we could actually see the beach after the cottages were demolished and before the Surf Club built its facilities on this site.