~ NOW and THEN ~ Downtown Marlborough in the mid 60's was a bustling Main Street with many Mom and Pop stores lining the sidewalks. Take a tour of downtown and see what it looks like now compared to then.
A grand plan to re-vitalize downtown and add a by-pass for Main street to cut down on the traffic was put into motion. The plan at one time included the removal of the older homes to the area behind the Train Station on the corner of Mechanic and Lincoln Street. This idea met with much opposition, so Marlborough took the homes by emminent domain and demolished them. Many of these homes were built in the early or mid 1800's and are now lost forever. Many belonged to families of the early proprietors of Marlborough or the folks who made Marlborough what is was in 1960. There was at one time discussion to close off Main Street and install a trolley line to carry passengers from one end to the other. Plans included the installation of gardens and trees to make downtown more inviting. All of these plans were scrapped and the downtown area was developed as we see it today.
The map to the left is the downtown area in 1958; the map to the right is the downtown area in 2002. Granger Boulevard is marked in red and the gray building is about where City Hall is.
OOOpppss... well, that will teach you to tear down an Historic Building.Downtown Marlborough........ take the virtual tour
See what it looks like today.
See, in some instances, how it got that way.
See what it use to look like.
See the feedback and comments from the visitors to this page
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A special thanks to Steve Sargent for rescuing these old pictures from the trash. They now reside at the Middle School.
Thanks go to George Larassa and Louis Bibi Jr. for addtional information and pictures provided.
If you have additional comments that can be added, then email me (buczek@attbi.com) and I will add it to the picture with you as the submitter.
