The Flickr Surfvillage Image Generatr

This 110 film photo doesn't capture the cool marine breezes coming in from Long Island Sound across Merwin Avenue to the left of this view.

Since the late 1980s, a large condo development called The Surf Village has occupied this same place.

It's amazing how many different colors used to be available in the 1960s and '70s! Everything across the spectrum from bright orange, purple metallic, harvest gold and shiny green.

The giant Surf Village condo community is right here these days. The colorful cars and tennis courts are just a memory captured on a frame of film.

This is a crop of a photo taken on 126 square-format Kodak Kodacolor film using an X-15 Instamatic camera back when I was 13 years old.

The Surf Club West was opened in 1967 and stood across Merwin Avenue from our house on Rock Street, adjacent to Merwin's Beach on Long Island Sound. In 1966, the club filled in a major portion of a giant salt march between Merwin and Seabreeze Avenues and paved it over to create their parking lot.

Nothing of this remains today. A large condo community called "Surf Village" exists here now and the street going through it is called "Sandpiper Crescent".

Taken with my brand new Kodak Pocket Instamatic 40 which Santa placed under the Christmas tree the previous day :)

Taken with my late, great Nikon FG 35mm camera on Kodacolor film.

The neighborhood by Rock Street and Merwin Avenue in Milford Connecticut sure was changing in 1986! All this available property inevitably resulted in an endless array of condo and townhouse developments starting about a year after this photo was taken.

I've added two photos below of the same place in earlier times.

Yet another shot of daily summer life with my Kodak 104 Instamatic camera loaded up with a cartridge of 126 Kodacolor film. The swamp canal fascinated me as a 13 year old... it was one of those places where people threw out used tires, rusting beach chairs, twisted and broken bicycles and all sorts of unwanted junk. Over time, most of these treasures slowly sank deep into the muck at the bottom of the canal.

There's no trace of any of this today. This is now the location of a large condo development called "Surf Village". The street running through it is Sandpiper Crescent.

I've always thought that the woman with a rather ample derrière trying to open her aging Rambler's door was one of the highlights of this moment in time.

None of this exists anymore. The Surf Club closed in 1982. Today, this parking lot is a large townhouse development called "Surf Village" and a street called Sandpiper Crescent runs through it.

Yes, the neighborhood was definitely starting to change. With the booming economy of the 1980s, "Yuppies" began to discover the Milford shoreline. As a result, land prices skyrocketed. During the 1980s and 1990s, the area was transformed from a sleepy beach community into densely built-up suburbs.

That abandoned lot in the 1986 photo now holds three houses with tiny yards. In the background, you can see piles being driven into what was once the Surf Club parking lot as the Surf Village condo construction project began.

Notice the tennis courts and basketball courts. Against all odds, this cropped 126 film shot caught a basketball in mid-flight against the backboard. Once all the Surf Club members left for the day, my friends and I used both courts for free!

Today, this exact same place is a giant development of condominiums called "Surf Village". The street running through it is Sandpiper Crescent.

Just another daily scene captured on my morning bike ride. Based on the number of station wagons in the lot, this was taken around 8 in the morning. In another hour or two, the Surf Club lot would be totally packed.

In the foreground is the "swamp canal" and in the distance you can see what used to be called Seabreeze Middle School. (now called East Shore Middle School).

Today, a development called "The Surf Village of Milford" on Sandpiper Crescent consisting of hundreds of condominiums occupies this same place.

For whatever reason, decades before I was born, the city of Milford built a series of pipes starting at the beach, then running under Merwin Avenue to feed this salt meadow. At high tide, the canal was absolutely full. At low tide, it contained nothing but smelly muck. Looks like it's about halfway full in this early morning shot.

Today, a development called "The Surf Village of Milford" on Sandpiper Crescent consisting of hundreds of condominiums occupies this same place.

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Taghazout equivelant of the Brighton beach huts. Not quite the same.

The crew

The main and most accurately built mosque in Marrakech, it faces Mecca perfectly.