Came to westfield at age 10 in 1953. Westfield had Roosevelt Jr high on the north side of crown and the new Edison Jr high on the south side of town. Westfield Senior High was built on the south side of town. I graduated from it in 1961. In 1953, there were NO public grade schools in DOWNTOWN Westfield. I watched the new library being building being built. The new police station was also housed within the same beautiful building. Westfield's current "middle" schools were called "Junior high" schools. I loved in westfield from 1953 until 1968. Last visit to my home town was in 1994, when my dad died. Several "facts" in this video are not reliable.

It is so interesting to hear you describe the locations and what things became and then again how they ended up later because some are so familiar from childhood but I need the prompts to really get oriented.

Thanks for the post, very interesting ❤

Oh, the memories of days long gone. Wonderfully narrated, professional slide show that brought back floods of feelings. I may have to break out my old Kodak carousel and countless rotary trays. As Bob Hope once said, "Thanks for the Memories" Five stars !!! ✴✴✴✴✴

I have one of her portraits of a beautiful child I believe it is in charcoal from 1884, would love more information.. Thanks

Audio cuts out a number of times. My lip reading skills are getting a work out....

What about Farr lumber?

It hasn’t disappeared

interessting, thank you for the Info Sir.

Thank you very much Dr. Brown for presenting such a lovely history of long ago Westfield. It breaks my heart I remember some of these buildings being torn down and replaced with nothing or parking lot. I agree I hope we can continue to do some thing with the nicest homes that we have that need restoration.

I absolutely love your work! Stunning and emotive. You are an inspiration ❤

Great video! Do you have any history on Colonial Pine Acres the Housing development? Was it military housing?

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Thomas Noble is my great x10 grandfather! This information is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing

When I was 7 years old I was at court street with my grandmother at the apartments right next to the cemetery on Court Street. And my friend were bringing trash out to the dumpster we are both carrying a white trash bag each of us holding with pant a hand. I looked up and there was a see-through type sheet just floating through the air.. it flew right over our heads towards the dumpster through the dumpster into the cemetery. Me and my friend will never forget what we saw to this day we have the exact same description of what we saw that day...

I own three family paintings by Stock. All three were done in 1838 when Stock had set up a studio for wealthy families in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Interesting, informative and entertaining. We just relocated to Westfield from out of state and to see the history you presented is ideal for us. Thank you.

Please let Dr. Brown know how much his video lectures are appreciated. It has been close to 50 years, but I believe I had him for Western Civ at Westfield State College back in 1974 or 75. He is a wonderful teller of historical stories. What a treasure.

Thank you Guy. I remember seeing the Columbia Mfg logo on the chairs we used in school.

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This is so interesting! Please share more artifacts from Westfield.

thank you, my wife and I are going down memory lane

This was fascinating, thank you.

I recently moved here. I’m going to check these places out. Thx.

Learned alot about my home town. Thank you

Thank you for this. It's great seeing and hearing about Westfield history.

I learned so much. I adore Ruth's work and own a couple. Gorgeous. Thanks, Guy, for a talk that made me appreciate her work even more.

Nice work! I dont understand why you presume white people put up the money for PP Sr's buildings in Massachusetts, or that the buildings in NY weren't to any degree owned by PAP real estate through the company's stock offering but instead by white people in New Jersey. Presenting evidence of either circumstance would have been helpful imo, so we can draw our own conclusions. I enjoyed the video very much.

My relatives (surname: Noble) loudly opposed Shepherd.

Hey, the founder of Tastedive here: thanks for using the site, and we'll look into correcting those associations. Unfortunately many books don't have a Wikipedia page, that's what causes the incorrect info being displayed. We'll look into adding other sources.