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This week, the old Capitol Theatre. Do you know what year this photo was taken or what’s in that location now? (Photo: Muskoka Heritage Place Collection)
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Last week we shared this photo with you:
In this 1960s image, note the absence of stoplights at the corner of Main and Centre, that this road was still called Hwy 11B, that the Empire Hotel was still standing, and that parking meters still line the street.
Doppler reader Brian Tapley shared these details with us:
“One thing I do remember from the 60s was that they used to remove one section of railing from the main street bridge and the trucks would back up to that spot and dump the snow directly into the river, snow, ice, sand and dog poop… it all went straight in but it never seemed to hurt anything. I’m not sure where they dump it now.
The main street bridge had an open grill work deck at that time and somehow they had it set up as a three lane bridge to allow left turns down beside the river toward what is now Boston Pizza. The grill was good in some ways as the snow just fell through it but on some mornings it would be covered with ice and very slippery and if you rode a small motorcycle it could “walk” sideways at an alarming rate depending on your tires. Best not to put a bike on it’s side on the grill work… the results were always bad.”
And David Johns shared: “Love the chains on the Tractors tires. What a good sound at 11 P.M.”
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That movie played in 1944.
It was about an Opera House doctor who tries to silence a Suprano who looked like one he strangled years earlier
The show moved long before Blair McCann’s was established circa 1977. I do remember the bowling facility being there but not sure when it moved to its present location. Perhaps Marg Wiegand can help us out.
Anyone know the year it moved to its present location?
Was Blair McCann sports store in that spot after the show?
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 WW!!. 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.
Just down from Town Hall and was eventually turned into bowling.
I think you mean Urban Rustic Living
1944 and where Reflections is located now?
Reflections of Muskoka is there now.