OT- help to locate town in photo

[Chuck Wintle]

This is a photo taken by Life magazine circa 1944 of a street scene in a small Vermont town. I need help to know in which town it was taken. The only thing I can tell for sure is the movie playing at the theater in the picture is titled "marriage is a private affair". And the cars look old too.
thx.

[Tim Morton]

I want to say its the bennington 4 corners....

[Ted Calver]

Chuck,

Google books has all the Life magazines available free on-line. You might want to take a look at the magazine to see if the location is noted.

http://www.google.com/search?q=1940s...d00c1d31739304

[Scott Shepherd]

Got to love the internet. Tim's got it nailed.

Here's a image from Google Maps on that corner building. The windows are the same style, the clock in the old photo is still there in the new photo, and the 2nd and 3rd buildings have the same shape/windows as the original photos. Have a look :

[Chuck Wintle]

Got to love the internet. Tim's got it nailed.

Here's a image from Google Maps on that corner building. The windows are the same style, the clock in the old photo is still there in the new photo, and the 2nd and 3rd buildings have the same shape/windows as the original photos. Have a look :

Yes it looks very similar!

[Dave Verstraete]

WOW...That took less than an hour. Any more questions

[Chuck Wintle]

Thanks everyone! It does indeed look like it was taken in Bennington.

[Tim Morton]

Got to love the internet. Tim's got it nailed.

Here's a image from Google Maps on that corner building. The windows are the same style, the clock in the old photo is still there in the new photo, and the 2nd and 3rd buildings have the same shape/windows as the original photos. Have a look :

i lived in bennington for 8 years, so it was a sort of "educated guess"

Thanks for the confirmation.

[Chuck Wintle]

old post card of the 4 corners in bennington... it looks very similar to the life photo

[Bob D.]

The balcony on the building across the street (Hotel Putnam)
appears to be where the photo was taken from. You can see the
iron railing here.

hotel-1.jpg

[Tim Morton]

I will say that it looks much better in the 40's than it does today.