Circa 1940's Spinning Wheel Restaurant at Tide Mill

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Spinning Wheel Restaurant circa 1940's at Tide Mill
Southport, Connecticut.
Postally unused postcard.

"As I recall, the parrot was in a large cage just inside the entrance to the restaurant.
It was very much of a trademark for the business.
As I recall, the parrot could say a few words."
-Arthur Jennings

Southport Harbor in 1932

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Southport Harbor in 1932
Photographer and exact date unknown.

Trolley Terminus in Southport late 1890's

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Trolley Terminus in Southport
Unused postcard circa late 1890.
The Southport Trolley system was introduced in Southport in 1894.
The original Southport trolley terminus was on Pequot Avenue at the foot of Rose Hill Road.
The trolley line was extended to Westport in 1896.

Breakwater Estate, Southport Connecticut circa 1900's

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Breakwater Estate, circa 1900-1909.
Southport, Connecticut
Color postcards.
This estate was located on some 10 acres on Osborne Point (entrance foot of Willow Street, extending west along the shore). The 30-room house was built for Elwood Stokes Hand, a Chicago publisher, in the early 1890's.

Southport Beach 1950's

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Southport Beach in 1950's.
Postally unused postcard.

Another rare postcard of Southport Harbor circa 1908

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Southport Harbor postcard (late fall at low tide?) circa 1908, view near the old Meeker Docks area.

J. A. Shields SHIELD's HOTEL Southport, Conn.

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Small Victorian Trade Card for Shields' Hotel and Lion Ointment by J A Shields of Southport, CT, in 1881.

Wakeman Memorial on Harbor Road in 1914

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Wakeman Memorial on Harbor Road in 1914
The Wakeman Memorial on Harbor Road was built in 1912 as a gift to community youth from Misses Frances and Mary Fowler Wakeman, in honor of their grandfather, Jesup Wakeman.
Photographer unknown.

Early 1900's Southport postcard

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A very rare color linen Southport, CT postcard, early 1900's

Tide Mill Tavern in 1945 on Harbor Road

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Tide Mill Tavern in 1945 on Harbor Road.

Old Southport Harbor postcard

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Southport Harbor at Harbor Road, near Old Meeker Docks area.
Photographer and date unknown.

Old Mill on Mill River-Southport Connecticut postcard

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Old Mill on Mill River
Southport, Connecticut.
Postally unused postcard, date uncertain, probably circa 1910.

C.O. Jelliff & Co. 1886

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Postmarked envelope from the C.O. Jelliff & Co. Southport Post Office postmarked in 1886.
http://www.jelliff.com/

An ELCO cruising Long Island Sound 1940's

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Rare Southport Harbor postcard circa 1910

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Rare Southport Harbor postcard circa 1910 low tide.
To the far left, an old onion barn (note person standing nearby), and, the BC&MMR clubhouse.
To the far right, the buildings were demolished and is now Perry Green, and also visible-the roof of Southport National Bank on Main Street.
View is from the area near the old Meeker Docks.

C.O. Jelliff MFG. Corp. 1921

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C.O. Jelliff MFG. Corp. Pequot Avenue Southport 1921.

Spinning Wheel restaurant circa 1942-1943

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Matchbook cover from about 1942 or 1943, Spinning Wheel restaurant on Harbor Road.

Old map of Southport/Sasco Hill

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Pequot Inn 1950's

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1950's advertisement.

Southport White Globe Onion