(From The Telegraph Files) Anyone who's been around for awhile and has either lived in or often visited Milford will recognize this one-time landmark, the giant White Elephant Shop on Nashua Street that was actually a long stretch of adjacent buildings connected together. Looking back with today's safety and fire prevention regulations in mind, the old, wood-frame buildings were an inferno waiting to happen. And it finally did, on a cold, snowy January night in 1966. A guess is this particular photo was taken in the early 1950s, judging from the light colored car second from left, which appears to be a 1951 or '52 Chevy, and the car at right seems to be of similar vintage. "Anything from a collar button to an elephant" was the White Elephant's slogan, which appears over the entrances to the buildings at right.

Anyone who’s been around for awhile and has either lived in or often visited Milford will recognize this one-time landmark, the giant White Elephant Shop on Nashua Street that was actually a long stretch of adjacent buildings connected together. Looking back with today’s safety and fire prevention regulations in mind, the old, wood-frame buildings were an inferno waiting to happen. And it finally did, on a cold, snowy January night in 1966. A guess is this particular photo was taken in the early 1950s, judging from the light colored car second from left, which appears to be a 1951 or ’52 Chevy, and the car at right seems to be of similar vintage. ‘Anything from a collar button to an elephant’ was the White Elephant’s slogan, which appears over the entrances to the buildings at right.