It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!
Long before there were iPods there were portable record players. In this ca. 1928 image by John Boyd, people at a camp somewhere in or near Huntsville listen to a portable record player. We don’t know anything more about this photo. If you do, leave a comment below! (Photo courtesy of Archives of Ontario)
Last week we shared this photo:
In this week’s photo, Mary Valina “Daisy” Wardell (1873-1972) and Claude Matthew Wardell (1883-1976) take a stroll down Main Street. The siblings were the children of Matthew Wardell and Grace Smale. Matthew founded Waardell & Company, a dry goods store at 77 Main Street East. It burned to the ground December 28, 1911 and was relocated across the street at 86 Main Street East. The white building on the left side of the photograph is the Wardell store at 77 Main Street East (where Spectacles Vision Centre is today), before the fire. The two storey brick building on the right is Hanna and Hutcheson Bros. (the present location of Algonquin Outfitters).
In 1908 a sewer line was installed down Main Street and work began to install granolithic sidewalks, a mixture of cement and granite chips, which might date this picture between 1908 and 1911. (Photo and details courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archive)
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