What Did Hartford Look Like 100 Years Ago? (Trumbull and Church Streets)

The block of Trumbull Street inn Hartford, Connecticut, between Pratt Street and Church Street, has two large buildings today, one built in 1926 and greatly expanded in the 1980s and the other built in 1984. Over 100 years ago, before either of these structures was built, there were many buildings here that contained great Hartford businesses, like prominent Hartford citizen Edward Mahl's plumbing company, a temporary G. Fox Department Store building (erected in the wake of a devastating fire), and a bar and grill operated by legendary boxer Kid Kaplan. On neighboring Church Street, long-lost businesses included S. Max & Co. furriers. Film of Kaplan-Battalino fight in 1930:    • Louis Kaplan vs. Battling Battalino, W10, ...   #hartford #jewishhistory #connecticut #history This video features images from the Library of Congress, the Connecticut State Library, the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, the Hartford History Center (Hartford Public Library), the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford, Brendan Loy, and Lawrence Ploudre. CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) from Wikipedia user Farragutful. 00:00 Intro 01:04 1888 View 01:42 Toucey House 04:20 Walder Building 04:40 next door 05:22 Mahl Plumbing 06:21 down Trumbull Street 08:20 Kid Kaplan's Grill 10:40 D. & R. Blutstein 11:37 down Church Street 11:58 Pepion Building 13:51 S. Max & Co. 15:51 Conclusion Support the site here: https://ko-fi.com/danielsterner Please check out my Substack REMEMBERING OLD HARTFORD https://oldhartford.substack.com My Books (These are links to Amazon and as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases): A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut: https://amzn.to/4bNbiAR Vanished Downtown Hartford: https://amzn.to/3IhK7Ao