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Do you remember Boley’s? Share your memories in the comments!
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Last week we shared this view of the Muskoka River with you:
We have few details about this photo in which you can see the old steamer Algonquin rounding a bend in the Muskoka River headed for Fairy Lake. Doppler readers have guessed that this photo was taken sometime in the 1940s.
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Andy Hanna says
Boley’s had the best chelsea buns ever. Now you can’t find a real chelsea bun anywhere. Sunday breakfasts at the cottage were always made more special by a chelsea bun from Boley’s. Their milkshakes (real, traditional milkshakes, made behind the counter) were also among my strongest childhood memories.
Arvina Bennett says
I enjoyed working there two summers when I was 13 and 14 in the late forties. Alberts and his summer chef’s cream puffs melted in your mouth–have never found anything to compare anywhere.
Judith Munroe says
Yes, Arvina, I will never forget what those cream puffs looked like and how the tasted. They were Amazing. I would try to eat them as slowly as possible so, of course, they would last longer.
Carol corry(Romanko) says
I remember Boleys Bakery really well my mom sister and I all had worked there. I started out as a dishwasher then painted pies for Emil Favro. Then waitresses at the horseshoe snack bar in the back room. Worked at the soda fountain with “nanny” he was a nephew of Boleys. Their cream puffs were to die for and the Boley Brothers were great to work for. Great memories
Nancy Rogers says
I have a vague recollection, from the mid 1940’s of a mechanized donut machine along the side wall. Donut dough was dropped into and floated along a vat of cooking oil, flipped half way along and then raised out of the fat to a conveyor belt. I am assuming this was at Boley’s Bakery. Fascinating to a small child.