Wayback Wednesday, sponsored by Jamie Lockwood, broker/owner of Sutton Group Muskoka Realty!
The Navco restaurant in Huntsville is gone but certainly not forgotten. The Mexican horns were so good…
Photo courtesy of Peter Corbett.
The building was built around 1895 and was home to W.H. Mathews & Co. Bank until the Sovereign Bank took over in 1901. The Sovereign Bank dissolved in 1908 and Mackie Kinton Insurance occupied the building from 1914 to 1919. Do you remember any other banks on Main Street Huntsville that are no longer around today?
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Steve Bodrug: This was not a “building” in the general sense. Just a collection of sheds or portables pressed into service as a restaurant. And for some of us a memorable one.
A good place for us to meet friends and acquaintances for a meal, beer or cocktail. Understand that those were actual mixed drinks and not a ‘Dougie’. And lots of us were being served by younger family members and their friends. Most just returned from college or university. But it was a summer/fall establishment. No real foundation or basement and more than a few people can recall spending the night under the Navco. It all disappeared when the town negotiated to purchase the properties for the rebuilding of the water front.
There was the ‘Navigation Company’ of olden days, which operated in the same place as ‘Navco’ and likely came to mind when the 4 young men started the restaurant. Even those operations had closed down in whole or in part with the onset of the cold weather.
They “closed for the season when the weather started freezin’.”
And it really did freeze back then.
Why was this building torn down instead of becoming another restaurant?