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When Downtown Waterbury Rocked

Thu, 08/02/2012 - 08:10

A bustling East Main Street in downtown Waterbury in 1939. Besides the styling automobiles as clues, the Plaza movie theater was playing Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" which was released in 1939.

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