June 19, 2006
Old downtown - in color
I recently wrote in a sunday "Talk of the Towns" piece that I bought a Lou Trapasso print that depicted downtown Bridgeport in the 40s. The wide angle really gave me an understanding of what Main and Fairfield must have looked at...
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April 13, 2006
Give HCC everything it wants
Working near the campus of Housatonic Community College, I see how much life this institution has pumped into our downtown. HCC is just about the best thing that's happened to our area in a dog's age. That's why I giddily propose that HCC be given even more space.
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March 9, 2006
Why is Read's such a mystery?
I went to one of Joe Celli's salsa parties a couple of weeks ago. It was on the top floor of the old Read's Department Store building on Broad and John. If you've been reading any of my former entries here, you know how significant that was for me.
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February 27, 2006
A beast, but in a good way
Why hadn't I gone into the main branch of the Bridgeport Post Office sooner? I wandered in to buy some stamps and I couldn't believe what I saw.
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Lee Steele the design director for the Connecticut Post, has written and directed the design for several newspapers and magazines in New Jersey, New York City and Connecticut. His interests include cartooning and collecting vintage magazines and newspapers.