If Roosevelt Wins, I'll Push You.....

Hyatt Madding voted for Herbert Hoover in the Presidential Election of 1932 and lost his bet about the election outcome with Leslie Hildreth, who voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt.  The winner of the bet had to push the loser in a wheelbarrow down Main Street in Bridgeport.

This picture was taken at the corner of Main Street and Chestnut Street in downtown Bridgeport.  Pictured, left to right: Unknown, State Patrolman Charles Baker, Leslie Hildreth, Hyatt Madding, Unknown, and Bridgeport Chief of Police Charles Berlin. 

Thanks to John King for researching these photos. Notice the Greyhound Bus turning north on Main Street.  Also notice the word "Pacific" on what John remembers as the Kroger Store, suggesting that an "A & P" grocery store was at the corner of Main & Chestnut in 1932.