{"id":1026,"date":"2014-04-24T19:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T00:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2018-07-26T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T23:45:18","slug":"window-to-the-past-of-bus-242-to-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2014\/04\/window-to-the-past-of-bus-242-to-hartford\/","title":{"rendered":"Window To The Past of Bus 242 to Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bus 242 to Hartford, a new photo in my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/tag\/window-to-the-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Windows To The Past<\/a><\/strong> project. \u00a0Zooming in on the bus shows it&#8217;s with &#8220;The Short Line&#8221;, which some internet searching tells me was a bus line from New London to Hartford.<\/p>\n<p>The old photo is from the 1940&#8217;s, was taken by Jack Delano, and is part of a collection in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. \u00a0The background is from April 2014 on Main Street in Colchester, amazingly directly in front of where the bust stop is today. \u00a0Small towns don&#8217;t change too much, do they?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/i-8gjqMdG\/A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Projects\/Windows-To-The-Past\/i-8gjqMdG\/0\/X2\/Colchester%20Bus%20Stop%201940%20-%202b-X2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bus 242 to Hartford &#8211; 1940&#8217;s mixed with April 2014<br \/>Click for larger versions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/2014\/04\/window-to-the-past-of-bus-242-to-hartford\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Colchester-Bus-Stop-1940-2b-2000px-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Colchester-Bus-Stop-1940-2b-2000px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Colchester-Bus-Stop-1940-2b-2000px-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Colchester-Bus-Stop-1940-2b-2000px-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p>Bus 242 to Hartford, a new photo in my Windows To The Past project. \u00a0Zooming in on the bus shows it&#8217;s with &#8220;The Short Line&#8221;, which some internet searching tells me was a bus line from New London to Hartford. The old photo is from the 1940&#8217;s, was taken by Jack Delano, and is part of a collection in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. \u00a0The background is from April 2014 on Main Street in Colchester, amazingly directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,54],"tags":[10,45],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-windows-to-the-past","tag-colchester","tag-window-to-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}