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It’s Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Pharmasave Huntsville!
Who remembers when Economy Fair and Eaton’s were among Huntsville’s Main Street merchants? What else do you see in this postcard from the early 1970s?
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I remember when Eaton’s location was Boley’s restaurant and bakery, Hearn’s hardware store was across the street from the Dominian Store where Hometown Drugs is now. And, there were no stoplights anywhere in town.
My grandfather bought his boat, his raincoat and his underwear at that Eastons store. I was so sad when Flotron’s closed. That’s where I would always get dad a Christmas sweater. Great memories.
I actually worked at Flotrons for 3 summers before i left for university in 1973. Eatons right across the street. Used to pick up fruit for lunch at Dominion Store. Went to the United Church on the corner. good memories.
We came up here in 1970 and there was a Loblaws across from Dominion – I think it must have been where Economy Fair is in the picture ??
I remember the hotdogs on rollers at Dominion. Made shopping easier with a solid meal inside…
It was the ‘Bank of Nova Scotia’, the ‘Dominion’ grocery store, where it was ‘mainly because of the meat’, and the three upper windows are gone from ‘the log front store’. I think it was 1967 when it became ‘Flotron’s Huntsville Trading’. The street looks in pretty good shape and there are North American made cars parked there. Some of those beauties were as long as todays pick-up trucks.
There was a hardware store and restaurants and you could do a lot of shopping downtown. I miss it.