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It’s Wayback Wednesday: Let’s go waaaaaay back

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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!

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This week we’re going waaaaaaay back to a view of Huntsville’s Main Street no one alive today would have seen. Can you guess the date of this photo? How about what’s now where the white building at the centre right of the photo is? (Photo courtesy of the Muskoka Digital Archives.)

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Last week we shared this photo with you:

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Here’s what Doppler readers had to say about it:

Richard Roberto commented via Facebook that “Herbert Clarke was leader there, at one time!”

John Davis said, “I think this is the Anglo Canadian Leather Company Band at the Susan Street Band Shell in Huntsville. C.O. Shaw and the Leather Company’s way of giving back to the Community besides employment in the Tannery.

Dave Shaw agreed with him: “I believe John is correct – the Tannery Band. Check out this site: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/anglo-canadian-leather-company-band-emc/”

Thanks for the great link, Dave! It is indeed the Anglo Canadian Leather Company Band (1915-1926) at the Susan Street band stand, and Herbert Clarke was the bandleader – you’ll find him in the front row. Here are names to go with some of the faces in the photograph:
Back row: 1.Albert Thoms 2.? 3.J. Frank Kelly 4.Oscar Cott
Next row: 1.? 2. Jas. Reid 3.Attilo Grossa 4-6? 7.Albert Boley 8.D. Reid
Next row: 1.John Pelissero 2.Cliff Graham 3.John Pesando
Next row: 1.Earl Mass 2.Ted Hazel 3-4?
Next row: 1.Clarence Booth 2.Brownie Thompson 3.Wm. Howells 4.Wm. Horton, Sr.
3rd from front row: 1.? 2.Virilio Grosso 3.Stan Kendrick 4.Vincenzo Grosso
2nd from front row: 1.? 2.Russel Hern 3.Bart Thompson 4.Fred Moore 5-8? 9.Carl Eybers 10.Orlando MacInnis 11.? 12.Ed Carter, Sr.
Front row: 1.Walter Collins 2.? 3.Cheney Doane 4.Chas. Wall 5.Edmund Wall 6.Chas. Shaw, Jr. 7.Herbert L. Clarke, conductor 8.C.O. Shaw 9.Geo. Simmons 10.Ted Franklin 11.John Collins 12.Gar Fetterlly 13.? 14.Clifford Guise

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  1. dave johns says:
    May 18, 2016 at 10:10 am

    Main street photo, 1886. The white building is where the Empire Hotel was. Now a vacant lot surrounded by empty stores and a road full of potholes.