Lord & Taylor had its first department store outside the greater New York area at Bishops Corner in West Hartford Connecticut. In this video I describe the store, which opened with great fanfare in 1953 and moved out (to Westfarms Mall) in 1983. I also talk about the adjacent shopping center, the Dutchland Farms dairy restaurant and summer pony rides that had previously existed on the site in the 1930s and 40s, and the attempts by local residents to block the building of Lord & Taylor.
New Video: The old Lord & Taylor, Bishops Corner, West Hartford
I was 4 1/2 years old when we moved into WH in 1979. I remember my sister, 13 at the time, was attracted immediately to that place hahaha It was an impossibly huge monolith of a building, and I really thought of it as some type of big spaceship haha