The cinder block wall near the verizon switching station was adorned with a wide mural heralding the triumphs of women in Northampton and the pioneer valley. I should send this photo to Rush Limbaugh, it'll induce him to eat more pills.
Once upon a time, Packard's was preceded by a tavern named, "Zelda's". Prior to that it was a post war tavern that traded customers with the VFW on route 5. Zelda's was sort of a cultural phenomenon at the time; signaling the post war boomer generation that a hip name depicted a place where Knickabockers were displaced by exotic brews such as Heniken or Beck's beer.
The irony not mistaken, "the old book" store keeps it's lease here on this Northampton sidestreet - enabling strollers to sit and ponder, read, and drink latte's,...like it was the Rue de St. Germain.
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