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This week, passengers disembark from the S.S. Algonquin. Can you guess the decade when this photo was taken? (Photo: Muskoka Heritage Place Collection)
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Last week we shared this photo with you:
This 1944 image shows the first location of the Capitol Theatre, formerly the King George Theatre, which was built in 1926. The building was later home to a bowling alley (which opened in 1952) and Blair McCann Sports. It now houses Reflections of Muskoka, next to the Algonquin Theatre.
The Giaschi family built a new theatre, its present location, that opened on November 2, 1948.
Doppler reader Marg Wiegand shared these memories of the Capitol Theatre with us: “Spent many [most?] Saturday afternoons at the Capitol during the ’40s. 10 cents admission and during the war there were some days it cost a can of food [for THE WAR EFFORT]. I don’t remember popcorn being available and still do not eat in theatres. There were always kid-friendly movies on in the afternoons but we also saw all the Warner Pathe News Reels from WWIi. The Giaschis pretty much ran a Saturday afternoon day care service for all the busy mothers in town. Loved growing up in Huntsville and love even more today that it all happened the way it did.”
Thanks, Marg!
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It is either late 1940’s or early 1950’s Those cars look a little like cars from 1947 or 1948 .
Based on the licence plate on the car, it was 1927.
I’m guessing 1950
Late 1930’s
1930’s?