Abandoned restaurant,Mays Landing NJ-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
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Abandoned restaurant,Mays Landing NJ-35mm Olympus Stylus Epic,Ilford XP2 400.
As it turns out, the abandoned building which I clearly remembered from the 1970s, but have no photos of, was once Rocco's Apizza and Italian restaurant serving the Woodmont beachside community for decades.
If your browser supports Flickr Notes, I've added a number of them to this photo of downtown Woodmont from the late 1960s.
The corner of Seabreeze and Merwin Avenues in Milford Connecticut. August 1973.
If your browser supports Flickr Notes, I've added several of them with a background history of each building.
Taken with my trusty Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 loaded up with a cartridge of 110 Kodacolor II film.
After a very long hiatus, I am officially back to making regular posts. Although I have kept up with my daily stories on Instagram, I found it hard to get motivated to post any proper photos. However I was keeping very busy during my absence, creating new interesting content which I will be posting in the future.
This will be the final post from this former family restaurant. So many items left behind that this restaurant could have reopened but that would not be the case, since it was bought by a development company to be demolished to make room for housing. This location was one of those gems hidden in plain site and I feel very fortunate to have been able to photograph before it was gone forever.
Dynasi Family Restaurant, Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
A view from the take out area of this abandoned family restaurant, with it's nice padded bench seat that looks as though it was so comfortable. While most of the dishes and other small items were removed when this restaurant closed, there were still a lot of the larger items leftover from when it was in operation. The tables remained in place with the chairs still resting on top from the final cleaning, the greasy gas stove in the kitchen area, as well as some other small items such as notepads for taking orders, a couple of cheap looking statue heads and even a few bottles of wine.
Dynasi Family Restaurant, Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
I had been watching this location for some time and I chose the right moment to photograph it, since only a couple of weeks later it was completely boarded up. I would imagine that the owners of this former restaurant received a good sum of money when they sold this property to developers and closed down their restaurant. I was amazed to see that almost everything was left behind at this location, the tables and chairs you see in this photograph as well as dishes and like most restaurants everything within the kitchen itself.
Abandoned Restaurant in Ontario, Canada.
©James Hackland
Another view of Conte's and the immediate neighborhood. Over time, it evolved into a kind of no-man's land of abandonment. The Bridgeport Harbor Power Generating Station adds to the overall ambiance of this corner in Bridgeport.
Something most people don't know is that a popular radio station (WEBE-108) has its broadcasting antennae array on the very top of the red and white smokestack. Between the high elevation and its 50,000 watts of power, WEBE-108's signal covers an enormously large area of Connecticut, Long Island, New York and parts of New Jersey.
Much like vast swaths of Bridgeport Connecticut, the area near Seaside Park by Long Island Sound has also seen its share of abandonment. Once an extremely industrial city, Bridgeport has been languishing for decades.
45 years ago, I never could have guessed that this little corner of Bridgeport would evolve into an urban jungle.
Old postcards from the early 1900s show this place to be quite busy serving hungry beach goers. It was located on King's Highway just two blocks from Anchor Beach. By 1979, it was a forgotten vestige of an era when people took the trolley from New Haven or Bridgeport to Milford to spend a day at the sea shore.
