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Greater Nashua Flashback

By Staff | Oct 31, 2020

Courtesy photo This photo, taken by the late, well-known Nashua photographer Fred Lawrence, longtime owner of Cameraland in downtown Nashua, is one of numerous historic Nashua photos and maps that appear in former city intern Renee Reder's oral history compilation, "The Everyday as Extraordinary: Interviews About Nashua's Tree Streets," featuring interviews with longtime residents over the course of 2011-12. The photo depicts the smoldering rubble left by the big fire of Sept. 29, 1947, which was shown from another angle in last week's Telegraph – with a bit of erroneous information that was brought to our attention by Charlie Colletta, a Nashua native and retired Hammar Hardware executive with a terrific memory for Nashua history. As this angle clearly shows, the three businesses gutted by the general alarm blaze – the Park Theater, Nashua Hardware and Plumbing Supply, and Berg's shoe store – were located on Main Street between Park Street and Pearson Avenue, not on the south side of Park Street, as was reported last week. Today, parking lots with both reserved spaces and metered city spaces are on this spot.

This photo, taken by the late, well-known Nashua photographer Fred Lawrence, longtime owner of Cameraland in downtown Nashua, is one of numerous historic Nashua photos and maps that appear in former city intern Renee Reder’s oral history compilation, ‘The Everyday as Extraordinary: Interviews About Nashua’s Tree Streets,’ featuring interviews with longtime residents over the course of 2011-12. The photo depicts the smoldering rubble left by the big fire of Sept. 29, 1947, which was shown from another angle in last week’s Telegraph – with a bit of erroneous information that was brought to our attention by Charlie Colletta, a Nashua native and retired Hammar Hardware executive with a terrific memory for Nashua history. As this angle clearly shows, the three businesses gutted by the general alarm blaze – the Park Theater, Nashua Hardware and Plumbing Supply, and Berg’s shoe store – were located on Main Street between Park Street and Pearson Avenue, not on the south side of Park Street, as was reported last week. Today, parking lots with both reserved spaces and metered city spaces are on this spot.

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