Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
From Annabelle Studio
Another great photo of Huntsville’s Main Street in 1951.
What was playing in the 1950s on Huntsville’s Main Street? On the Riviera, a 1951 Technicolour musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox.
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Another of the photos that ‘townies’ may well be able to pick lots of memories from. ’51/’52 and I likely wouldn’t often be that far up the hill in Huntsville. The candy and drinks I would be after could be claimed without the climb.
But in the picture you can still see the Cottrill Building. It was sold and in 1954 a new post office was built there. The car on the sidewalk is pretty close to where a dairy was and where Howard Shaver would build his new insurance/realty office. The town cop was busy enough downtown to bother walking all the way up the hill to yell at the parking violator.
The White Rose station was part of a Canadian company, selling fuel into the 60’s. Today there is a new field opening in Nfld. using the old name. White Rose gasoline and Black Beauty axle grease. Those people did have a sense of humor.
Round the corner at the top of the hill today, you can spot the roof lines of the church hall and the manse(?) atop of the hill just off Brunel road. The other end of what I knew as ‘town’. In the same place 70 or so years down the road, standing out amongst the leaves.
And if council takes a peek, those are actual trees along the street. Aged out and cleared away I suppose, and replaced with what we have today.
Those good ole days.