"Deck the (Town) Halls . . . "
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Decorating the town hall and the town's fire stations for the Christmas season has been a tradition since the beginning. The folks at Public Works decorated the town hall and the firefighters decorated their respective stations.
Here are two mid-20th Century photos of Hamden's Memorial Town Hall, all decked out, from a collection presented recently to the Hamden Hisorical Society.
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| December 1939 - Hamden Town Hall's annual Christmas decorations are up. This is a tradition that has lasted decades. The "HAMDEN" neon sign at the roof's edge was installed for the Hamden Sesquicentennial, celebrated three years earlier. The sign remained a fixture on the front of the town hall well into the 1970s. (Photo courtesy of the Hamden Historical Society) |
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| December 1947 - A real sense of postwar hope and optimism may have been responsible for the somewhat glitzier decorations on Memorial Town Hall this year, which included Santa and his team. "Rudolph" would join two years later thanks to Gene Autry, but we don't think he ever appeared at the town hall. (Photo courtesy of the Hamden Historical Society) |
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