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From Wayback Wednesday!: McIlroy’s Pioneer Garage | Sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty

Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!

Photo from the Muskoka Heritage Place Collection from 1936.

The sidewalks were pretty narrow, pedestrians likely had to walk on the street to get past that part of Huntsville’s Main Street. How times have changed. Can you imagine having a garage and gas pumps on Huntsville’s main street today?

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2 Comments

  1. Allen Markle says:

    The ‘Christmas Tyme’ store and ‘Two Horse Gallery’ once looked like that. There was even parking on the street along there. Go around back of that ‘Pioneer Garage’, and McIlroys had their repair shop under the building. I wonder if the McColl-Frontenac logo for their ‘Red Indian’ gasoline would work today? It was an actual home grown oil company. I think it was bought out by Texaco.

    I saw an old workmate at the grocery store the other day and mentioned the name ‘Pioneer Garage’.
    “Yeah. I saw it.” he said. “I’ve been waiting for someone to say that’s not the Pioneer Garage they knew.”

    Well, it’s not the Pioneer Garage I knew either. The garage I knew was owned by his father Gordon, and my Dad bought a new ’55 Studebaker Champ from Gord, back then. The garage is gone now. It stood at the corner of West street south and High street. So the town has had two ‘Pioneer Garages’.

    As I was leaving he asked “Are you hungry today?”
    “Not today” I replied. “Just some fixin’s for a salad.

    So someone does read this stuff. Bonus!!

  2. Brian Tapley says:

    An occasional gas pump on the edge of the sidewalk could not be worse than an outdoor dining area covering 2/3 of the sidewalk.
    I just love sharing my lunch conversation with diesel truck engine brakes and dust from the road and brakes settling softly on my meal as I eat it.
    Then there are the little Honda’s with mufflers as big as the engine but whose sole purpose is to “Make noise” not to muffle it.

    I foresee the day when every parking spot will have an electric plug in adjacent to it. I wonder what this will look like. Maybe at night they can all be linked by blue tooth to provide a synchronized light show up and down the streets. It might look pretty cool!