Hartford, Connecticut, 1940s

Of all the Hartford photos in the collection Joe Sokola supplied us, we only found these three from the Forties. Above, the theater marquee shows two films released in July and September of 1945, and that ticker tape in the streets looks like the remains of a V-J Day or heroes welcome parade. Below, the scene looks a little more terse and possibly from earlier in the year, with the war still going on. Bottom, a scene from much later in the decade, when things had returned to normal. What do you see here?