Hartford, Connecticut, 1950s and 1960s

The location for all four of today’s carspotting photos: Hartford’s Main Street, conveniently given away by the presence of the Crown Theater, which we’ve seen before in the photos supplied to us by Joe Sokola, and Dailey’s Super Market, which resided across the street from the theater. The dates: a little more difficult to pinpoint. Typically movie theater marquees offer some help, but in the photo below, we can only presume the version of “The Last Days of Pompeii” playing at the Crown is the Sergio Leone version, released in the U.S. in July 1960. The presence of “She” on the marquee complicates things, though: Is it the 1935 or 1965 version? Or does that sliver of a license plate we see suggest it’s the 1949 re-release of the 1935 version of “Last Days?” As for the color photo, the Big Show is probably “Son of Captain Blood,” a Spanish pirate flick released in most of the United States in early summer 1964. What do you see here?