Wayback Wednesday 16 – MHP Main St

It’s Wayback Wednesday: Main Street memories

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 down to see last week’s photo taken from Lions Lookout along with a current shot from the same location for comparison, and the names of some families who lived in the homes pictured.

This week, we’ve got an oldie but a goodie of Huntsville’s Main Street. There are stores and other features seen here that no longer exist – can you name some of them? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place.)

Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab

Here’s last week’s photo with an image below from approximately the same vantage point on Lions Lookout for comparison.
Dave Johns places this photo from around 1960.
Bill Wright recognized the Digby house at the left edge on the river.
And Marg Wood’s grandparent lived in the area and she was able to name several families who lived there:
The Swan family home on the right, centre front is the Shearer home, centre back is the Harold Briggs family home (Jane Van Buster & Martha Watson), and the home on the left is the Lough family home (now owned by John and Donna (Lough) Digby. Behind the Lough home is the original home of the Kellock family (my grandparents).
Thanks to all three for contributing those details!
Wayback Wednesday 15 - MHP Lions Lookout header
Wayback Wednesday 15 - Lions Lookout today for comparison

Like these photos? You’ll find all of the Wayback Wednesday photos here, and you can see tons of vintage photos at the Muskoka Museum at Muskoka Heritage Place.

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