Bishop's Corner Shopping Center, West Hartford, Connecticut

While Wikipedia only mentions Lord and Taylor (1954) as the first major anchor of Bishop's Corner Shopping Center in West Hartford, Connecticut - it was also the first Lord & Taylor store outside of the New York metropolitan area - as you can see from both the postcard above and the photo below, the shopping center also had a Woolworth, and according to the back of the postcard, the buildings of the shoppign center were made of white brick, trimmed with Swedish granite. Parking facilites for 1,500 cars.

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Streamlined department stores and super markets are a far cry from the old general store on the village green, but they have come about because Connecticut's cities are spilling over into the suburbs. The mechanical skill of the people, coupled with Yankee ingenuity for discovering new custom- ers for their products, has made this a state of opportunity in industry. Hartford, largest city in the state as well as state capital, is a financial-industrial center, the insurance hub of the U.S.A. West Hartford, home of our House of Ideas, is a typical growing suburb. Here, near the site of the first Dutch trading post in the state, are a 20th-century shopping center, good schools (a new one is going up two blocks from the House of Ideas), bus transportation to Hartford and a park with tennis courts and play areas. These factors are making West Hartford an attractive place in which to live.