Pleasant Valley Drive Right On By Pleasant Valley Drive-In, Barkhamsted October 2024 The drive-in closed in 2022. I listed Connecticut's few drive-ins years ago. This was the one that most interested me simply because it's nowhere near any sort of population center. It's in Pleasant Valley. Where's Pleasant … [Read more...]
Aetna Museum (Closed)
Aetna, Glad I Met Ya. I Guess. Hartford November 1999 CT museum visit #493, even though it closed to the public in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks and is probably in storage now. CVS purchased Aetna in 2018 for $69 billion. There aren't too many museums included on CTMQ that closed several years before CTMQ began. … [Read more...]
Mirtollucci & Sons Oddities Museum (Closed)
Disappearing Act Southington After a very brief existence, this museum closed in... 2020? Ish? At least I'm pretty sure it's closed. I've reached out to David Mirto, the owner, funder, collector, teacher, and showman responsible for this place through a variety of means a number of times over the course of … [Read more...]
Steamed Cheeseburgers at The Lunch Box (Closed)
The Lunch Boxed Up and Left The Lunch Box Steamed Cheeseburgers, Meriden After many successful years in business, The Lunch Box closed in 2019. I never made it to the Lunch Box, but putting this page together allows me to drop a Mark Bittman article about the Lunch Box from the early 1980's. Crazy, right? … [Read more...]
Rocky Neck State Park Nature Center (Closed)
Protect Ya Neck East Lyme Look, man, I tried visiting this place. At least three times! But I never got to it when it was open - and I suppose there's a chance it will open again in the future. I have no idea. Regardless, I'm fairly confident I have an idea of what the Rocky Neck Nature Center was like. … [Read more...]
John Fitch Distilling Company (Closed)
Son of a Fitch John Fitch Distilling Company, South Windsor October 2022 The Flying Canoe tasting room closed in August 2023, but liquor is still being produced. I can't decide what the most interesting thing about this new-in-'22 distillery is. There are at least five competing ideas in my head. Most of them … [Read more...]
Firefly Hollow Brewing (Closed)
Lights Out Firefly Hollow Brewing, Bristol The brewery announced its abrupt closure in February 2023, but The New Cambridge Project opened in its place and own all the Firefly recipes. In 2011 there were only a few standalone non-brewpub breweries in Connecticut... in Stonington, East Hartford, Woodbridge, … [Read more...]
Travelers Insurance Museum (Closed)
Seeing Red (Umbrellas) Hartford Multiple non-visits True story: Back in the 1990's, when I was an idiot, I landed a "job" at a temp agency that placed me at Travelers in Hartford. Not in the cool Travelers Tower, but in that rectangle block next to it. I have no recollection of what my menial tasks were, but I … [Read more...]
Guvnor’s Brewery (Closed)
Beer, Glorious Beer, Hot Sausage and Mustard! Guvnor's Brewery, Norwalk I never visited Guvnor's Brewery. Pictures stolen from "The Hour" I have no idea why you're reading this page. Maybe you're some weirdo Connecticut beer historian who is a glutton for punishment; reliving all the failed breweries of nutmeg … [Read more...]
Connecticut Brewery Collective (Closed)
Collective Failure Connecticut Brewery Collective, Wolcott Formerly Shebeen Brewing Company, this iteration of the brewery ceased operations in January 2022 before becoming Velvet Libations. The Connecticut Brewery Collective was probably the smartest thing the owner has done with his brewing operations during … [Read more...]
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