PHOTOS: Downtown New Canaan through the Years

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Football victory snake dance Ca. 1955, E.J. Cyr photo, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Main Street With the Corner Cigar Store in view. Undated photo by Syd Greenberg, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Main Street at East Avenue Ca. 1890s, showing the “Parker Elm," photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Main Street at East Avenue Ca. 1890s, showing the “Parker Elm," photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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South Elm Street Breuchard Real Estate, Robert Corry photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Construction of Firehouse WPA retaining wall adjoining present-day Vine Cottage in foreground. 1936 Robert Corry photo, courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Elm Street by "the alley" Barber shop, Gustav Strauss Inc., The Corner Cigar Store Co., undated photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Elm Street Elm St. Corner South Ave. Ca. 1951, New Canaan Electrical Co., Town & Country Shoes, on South: Sugar Bowl Confections, Clapboard Hill Inc. Courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

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Shell Gas Station Undated, photo courtesy of the New Canaan Historical Society

For the our 2015 Downtown & Holiday Guide, we featured photo galleries of the business district in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. In the final installment of the guide, we selected some of our favorite photos on file at the New Canaan Historical Society through many different decades. Enjoy!

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Note: For the first two weeks of August, we’re re-running one popular feature story each day from the NewCanaanite.com archives—something fun that you may have missed. 

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