Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we’ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to huntsville@doppleronline.ca and we may share them with our readers!
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Last week we shared this photo with you:
Lots of Doppler readers tried to guess the year this photo was taken, with many at least getting the decade—the 1940s—correct. The hint in this photo is the flag hanging from the light standard in the foreground that reads “Lend for Freedom”, likely a reference to war bonds. The year this photo was taken was 1943 and the photographer’s vantage point is from the corner of King Street and Main Street, looking east toward the swing bridge.
Here’s what Doppler readers had to add about this picture:
Karen Eden Reijnen via Facbook: That’s the coolest photo. Look at those snow banks. ?
Mimi Beats via Facebook: And those sidewalks would have been shovelled by hand!
Kathleen Gilchrist via Facebook: Jack Gilchrist had that drugstore after the war. He was a pharmacist in southern Ontario for the army during the war. He later moved to Port Dover and opened another drugstore.
Jeremy Blencowe via Facebook: By the size of the snow banks I’m guessing ……..winter time (haha, Jeremy!)
David Johns: A wonderful photo. Looks like my mother Edna attempting to push the baby buggy up the sidewalk. In those days, 1943, everything you needed to buy was on the Main Street, so your walked there. Remember going shopping with mom as a pre-schooler and it took for ever. Everyone wanted to chat with her. My father Wally was the A&P store manager in 1940.
Brian Tapley: Nice snow banks! Nobody should complain today! Looking down the main street toward the bridge. I remember the A&P to be up the hill a bit (it would have been behind this photographer) and on the opposite side to where it is in this picture but I guess it moved. Tremblay shoe and harness repair I remember too. It moved to the left side of the road as you head up Brunel Road I think. That was back in the day before Adidas had been invented. Shoes were heavy, made with real leather and one actually got them “fixed” if part of them wore out or broke. What a concept!
Jay Faulkner: Yes, taken from corner of King and Main during WW2. Hint, Lend For Freedom! Shell station to become Fina and United Cigar Store to become McCaffreys Smoke and Gift Shop. Check the lack of development across the bridge up Church Street hill!
Thanks for your comments, everyone!
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