Goodbye For (Then and) Now
For the last "Then and Now" column, let's take a look back at some of the photos we've featured.
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Editor's Note: Today, we say goodbye to "Then and Now" columnist and Westborough resident Sam Kurtz, who is completing his senior year at Georgetown University. He is off to prepare for life after graduation. Westborough Patch has been lucky to have his contributions over the past year, and we all wish him much success in the future!
Good morning, Patchers!
Thank you for an incredible year of Then and Now features. This post is going to conclude our series, so I want to take a moment and thank you for reading, leaving comments, and sending e-mails. I am very appreciative for all of your feedback, and I hope you enjoyed reading the column as much as I enjoyed writing it.
That being said, we have some winners to announce!
Congratulations to Jonathan Size and Paula Skog for correctly identifying the location of the two Where Is That? photos.
The first photo (with the white building in the upper right-hand corner and the grassy field in the top center) is of the intersection of Water Street and East Main Street where present-day CVS, Honey Dew Donuts, and Soveriegn Bank are located. Neither CVS nor Honey Dew Donuts were constructed at the time of the photo (1958), but you can see the Sovereign Bank building on the right hand side of the photo.
The second photo (of a large building on the right hand side and a road that appears to split on a very tight bend) is of the intersection of School Street and South Street with Beach Street running parallel to the bottom of the photo. The large factory is the Beach Street Tannery - which we did a feature about several weeks ago. Today, Westborough Country Village stands where the factory once stood.
I got hung up on that second photo trying to figure out where in Westborough we had a road that split on such a sharp bend - but I'm sure there were some residents of School Street and South Street who were able to figure it out right away.
In light of the fact that this is our last Then and Now column, I posted some of the photos from past weeks and encourage you to take a look back at some of the past features (listed below)...there's a lot to read!
Past Then and Now Features:
43 Church Street
St. Luke's Parish
The Eli Whitney School
Town Hall
Bay State Commons
The Westborough Streetcars
The Ice Storm of 1922
Westborough High School
The Post Office Block
The Cobb Block
Central Block and the Package Store
The Park Building
The Westboro Hotel
The Arcade Building
Main Street
The Westborough Airport
King Markets/Iandoli's
The 1953 Tornado
The Great Hurricane of 1938
The Ford Dealership
The Railroad in the Rotary
The Fire Station
The Downtown Train Ticket Kiosk
The Whitney House Hotel
The Post Office Building
1940s Town Parade
The District 8 Schoolhouse
The Perez Rice House
Beach Street Tannery
Westborough's A&P
The Westborough Savings Bank
J.S. Nason and Company
Revolutionary Reenactment
South Street
The Lake Chauncy Pavilion
Gannon and Chamberlain
The Keating Building
West Main Street
Ester Forbes House
The Evangelical Congregational Church
High Street
And, for those of you who enjoyed guessing the Where Is That? photos - we posted several of those as well:
Where Is That - One
Where Is That - Two
Where Is That - Three
Where Is That - Four
Thank you again to everyone for reading each week, and a speacial thank you to the Westborough Historical Commission as well as Paula Skog for providing both the photos and much of the research used in each week's feature.
Enjoy the rest of your snowy week!
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Sam Kurtz
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Jonathan size
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Nancy Wright
10:57 am on Monday, October 31, 2011
Good luck, Sam! No doubt you'll do great things!
Gary Kelley
1:21 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
Sam, I have enjoyed your posts. Well done. Good luck and enjoy!
Sam Kurtz
3:28 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
Thank you, Nancy and Gary! I appreciate you following the column.