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On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 22:12:15 -0400, Keyser Söze
wrote: On 10/29/20 9:59 PM, wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:00:36 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 10/29/20 4:44 PM, wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:02:44 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: On 10/29/20 10:49 AM, wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:37:55 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote: southern Connecticut. Is there a northern connecticut? The whole state is only about 60 miles from the Long Island Sound to the Mass border at it's widest point. It is more like 45-50 from where you lived. When I was a kid, it was a three hour drive from New Haven to the Boston suburbs, where my grandparents lived. The only way there was the old Merritt Parkway as far in Connecticut as it went, and then commercial state highways from there to the outskirts of Boston. These days, of course, it takes less time. We never went straight north into Massachusetts because we didn't have any relatives in that part of the state. The best way to get from New Haven to Boston back then was on the train. Great train ride. Still is. That is more of an east west drive than north south but I have taken that trip, driving to Boston from DC. It was 95 then but that is not like 95 once you get out of the Acela corridor. 95 up there is just another road. I-95 through Connecticut did not exist when I was a kid growing up there. It is a typical interstate through the Nutmeg State. Used to have tolls but they are gone. I did it last in 1968. I assume it was I-95 but I honestly don't remember. I know it just seemed like another road to me but it was the middle of the night. I try not to take trips like that in the daylight. I seem to recall I-95 through Connecticut opening up in the mid-1950s, maybe '55 or '57. Used to be a .25 toll every X miles, but the last time I was on the road, the toll booths were gone. My first contact with the interstate was the Beltway and that was early 60s. I wasn't driving yet when the Wilson Bridge opened but it was right in that late 62 time frame. It was up in the late 60s when it opened through S.Carolina/Georgia because I remember driving to Florida in my 66 Chevelle, still on 15 and 17. The next trip in the 69 Corvette was 95 all the way. |
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