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 [email protected] and we may share them with our readers! Scroll waaaaay down to see last week’s photo.
This old barn, like so many others, is no longer standing. Can you guess its former location or the date of this photo? (Photo: Muskoka Digital Archives)
Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab
Dave Johns (who donated this photo) wrote: “I’m going to take a wild stab at Jupp Motors. The business started on the corner of Main and Center in 1935. 1939, due to lack room at his Ford dealership and Esso Station, Ran Jupp the owner, purchased the very swampy property on King William between Fairy Ave and Hanes Street, once the location of our Town’s first covered skating rink called Paulley’s Palace Rink. After a lot of draining and filling in, the new modern Jupp Motors opened it doors on July 1, 1939, selling Blue Sunoco gasoline. He also built his Muskoka Oil facility at this time on Yonge Street where his bulk gas and oil tanks were located by the R.R. tracks. Mr. Jupp sold his business in 1957 followed by a lot of different owners: McKee, Finnigan, Brueton and lastly Bickley. 1989 the building was demolished to make way for a strip mall, with M&M Meats the first store to open on May 11, 1990.” Thanks, Dave!
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