The 1961 Summer Reading Club at the South Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library

Color photograph showing the group of children who were members of the 1961 Summer Reading Club at the South Branch of the Bridgeport Public Library. The South Branch opened in 1922 on Myrtle Avenue between South and Railroad Avenues on land donated by Marie and Virginia Soules: two sisters who lived on Warren Street adjacent to the land. It temporarily closed during the 1930s and, in 1965, it was permanently closed because of the State Highway expansion of Route 25.