Photo from the George C. Crout Collection, courtesy of the Middletown Public Library
A sign, at the future southeast (Verity Parkway) mall entrance, proclaims Middletown's up-and-coming Urban Renewal project.
Photo from the George C. Crout Collection, courtesy of the Middletown Public Library
Photo from the George C. Crout Collection, courtesy of the Middletown Public Library
A computer-generated rendering of the northwest (Main Street) entrance of MIDDLETOWN MALL. Opened in December 1974, this "center city-saving" retail facility would never live up to expectations held in the late 1960s and early '70s.