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We don’t have any information about this photo so we’re turning to you for details, readers. This photo was part of the collection once on display at Wayne Baker’s barbershop in the Empire Hotel, and which he has since donated to the Huntsville and Area Historical Society. Can you tell us anything about this image?
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Dave Johns said, “This looks like the Dice on Ice on Mary Lake, Port Sydney. It was exciting car racing that drew racers from all over Ontario. It ran there a few years then moved to Rotary Beach. Lastly it was at Penn Lake, Hidden Valley. Late 1950s and into the 1960s were the years for it.”
Dave Scott concurred: “Dice on Ice it is! Hard to imagine that in 1957 we parked V-8s with huge tail fins in a row on Mary Lake ice. Would we dare do that today? Do you believe in climate change???”
Brian Tapley added: “Dice on Ice and it looks like Mary Lake but it was held on several lakes over the years. Once it was even held at our place (Bondi Resort on Haystack Bay of Lake of Bays) and I can just barely remember this one. This was in a time when cars were fun, carbon tax did not exist and we blissfully had no awareness of the damage we might be causing. Tooling around on an ice covered lake in an old car was the coolest thing a teen could do in the 60s. One would be amazed at the maneuvers that one could accomplish doing this and I’ll leave the details to your imagination.”
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