New Hampshire’s economy slowly began to improve during the 1950s. New companies have replaced old textile mills and shoe factories with machinery, precision instruments, electrical products, and eventually, computers and computer accessories. In the 1960s, New Hampshire had become one of the fastest-growing states east of the Mississippi River; its population nearly doubled between 1960 and 2000. In addition to its economy, the state’s politics have also changed.
In the 1980s, New Hampshire’s population skyrocketed as major highways connected it to Greater Boston and created more bedroom communities. With the seventh-highest median household income in the U.S. and some of the lowest poverty, unemployment, and crime rates, New Hampshire has become one of the wealthiest states in the nation.
If you grew up in the 80s and 90s News Hampshire, you would remember visiting the toy Castle in Claremont, watching horse run at Rockingham Park, shopping at the Pheasant Lane Mall, and Blizzard of 1993.
Here are some stunning photos that show New Hampshire in the 1980s and 1990s by John Maroglies
Six Gun City was awesome back in the day.
It really was a great place to take my son and his cousin.
That’s a strange group of photos to capture New Hampshire in the ’80s and the ’90s in boy do I feel like a dinosaur. Since I would be capturing New Hampshire of the ’50s in the ’60s , before highways sliced and diced the state encouraging sprawl, before the advent of big blocks shit stores that are the same from Pasadena California right incidentally now sit lol two Manchester New Hampshire all the same crap. Pictures of South Willow Street in Manchester when there was nothing we are except trucking companies and the Mall of New Hampshire was farm or Bedford New Hampshire back of the road was simply a sleepy farm road to some of the most beautiful pristine farmland. The kind of thing you might still see in Europe when you leave the village of the town but not in America It’s swallowed up by parking lots and malls. Or urban renewal itself and how that destroyed huge swathes of inner city concord especially the rail yards and that lost opportunity, Manchester the destruction of the amoskeag milliard which might have been a UNESCO site. It was bantured about and long before Rowes wharf in Baltimore or Quincy market in Boston Made their appearances, and then poor Nashua. There’s certainly is a lot more money in the state these days for sure but everything can’t be measured in dollars and cents
God, Indian Head looks so pleasant.
Just imagine after a long summer at work, going to the resort and taking a load off.
A very melancholy feeling, seeing the photos of the Funspot minigolf course. I could easily insert the child me into the frame.
My memere has a journal from the ’50s where she talks about her and my pepere going to that theater a lot when they were 15 years old. It opened in 1912.