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The junction of Highways 11 and 60 is now home to Commerce Park, but at one time it looked like this (albeit in a different location). Do you know the date or the original location of this junction? (Photo: MTO)
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We don’t know the date of this photo and asked Doppler readers for help. This is what they had to say:
Gail Orr: “I came in 1970 and went to Huntsville High. The new addition had just been added to the school. The school’s field is still grass. It was turned into a parking lot soon after I arrived. Blackburn’s Marina is still there. So I would say mid to late 60s.
Brian Tapley: A little older a little slower and more the kind of town I like to visit than the present one but that is progress I suspect. The picture of the school would maybe be in the 60s. I think they built the tech wing about ’64 as that is the year I started there and it was almost all “new” at that time. Everyone involved was very proud of it!
One of the few buildings that shows no sign of change from the outside is the post office. In my memory it has always looked the same… “rock solid government” would be the architecture style I’d name it with.
Wendy J. Brown: My guess would be late 60s perhaps 1968
The log place was at the junction of what is now Muskoka 3 / King William Street and highway 60.
Back then the part of highway 60 that goes out to the highway 11 bypass did not exist. They built this section in the mid ’70s I think.
Anyway, back to the log building … it sat on the side of Muskoka 3, right near where the ramp from Muskoka 3 East bound onto Highway 60 now is. It served I think as the building for a weigh scale at that location used to weigh the trucks.
Near the end of the 60’s or maybe the early 70’s this building was moved and become a sort of boat house/beach building down on Fairly Lake. I think it was purchased by one of the town doctors. I think it is still there and could probably be found by looking from the water if one went boating along the piece of shore between 3 guys and the river mouth but I don’t know this for sure.
Was that little log place at the junction of Hwy 60 and King William?
they put addition on high school in 1962 I worked on it