Car Trends In East Hartford

We don't travel to our sister city East Hartford too often. Maybe about once a summer to have a beer on the river at 125 Riverside or once every couple years to an early season (i.e. warm weather) UConn football game. Besides that, we just don't find ourselves compelled to cross the river too often. What we've been missing out on is what appears to be a return on the "car pickup" hybrid, a style first introduced by the Chevrolet El Camino in 1959.

Don't We All Wish?

Image courtesy of Puck Daddy at Yahoo

See anything a little amiss about this screen shot from a broadcast of the Hurricanes and Blues game? Looks like someone over at Comcast misses the Whale as much as we all do. Hat tip to farm boy for this find. Full Yahoo story is here.

Reader Pics Of The Whale Bowl

This weekend Rentschler Field in East Hartford hosted the Whalers Hockey Fest 2011. The all day outdoor event featured a Whalers Legends vs. Bruins Legends game and a CT Whale vs. Providence Bruins game. Bruce Berlet has a great recap of Connecticut legends Brian Leetch and Craig Janney's perspectives here.

Jumper and myself were both out of town for the weekend, but in all honesty the cold would've been too much for either of our fragile selves to bear. Lucky for us, Sad City readers are tougher than the writers and loyal reader Farm Boy provided us with pics from Whale Fest 2011.

Hartford Mattress Surplus Solved!

Hartford residents are very familiar with the abundance of mattresses that can be found strewn about our City’s streets. We here at Sad City have a fascination with some of the larger mattress “colonies” that we have found congregated on the City’s sidewalks.

While amusing, one can’t help but wonder, where do these mattresses come from? We have certainly visited other cities and not seen this type of mattress surplus. Even sister Sad Cities like Bridgeport, Wallingford and East Hartford don’t seem to have such an abundance of mattresses. So what is going on with the mattress population in Hartford?

Hartford Pay Phone Contest: Pay Phone #21

Hartford Pay Phone #21 is located at the corner of Main and Buckingham at a light that always seems to be red when we get to it. To us, the light seems to signal the crossing point between the South End and downtown. Like many other phone finds, this phone is located next to a bus stop. It is also located just outside the wavy glass exterior building which serves as a health clinic. If one is going into downtown, go through this light and the next couple blocks on the left offer good, under utilized parking spots. Tip to Farm Boy for this find.

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