"I'm from Danbury/Bethel, HS in the early 1960s. It is a traumatic experience to pass through "home" and see the decimation that's happened to what was once a wonderful place to grow up in!"I worked their in the 80's and 90's. CT is a shell of it's former self. I hear the whole former Combustion Engineering Campus is literally gone and re-purposed. Before that company was bought and resold a billion times it was on the NYSE. Dang shame, some of the greatest design and engineering talent in the Country IMHO, were in CT to name some of the firms; Pratt, Hamilton Std, Kaman, Sikorsky, Combustion Engineering, and lets not forget on the cutting edge Gerber Scientific. Some are still their, downsized, right sized, bla-bla-bla, but it ain't the same....
One of my associates is a former C-E employee. He got out of there when the rumors started spreading about yet another sale (ABB to GE). The Windsor Locks offices are closed down. The small portion of business that was Westinghouse-related went to PA (Churchill). Other employees scattered to the few C-E plants still running (e.g., Palo Verde and a few more). Everything else was sold out. Welcome to globalization. President Hillary loves it.:-(