You don’t need to look any further than Doppler’s Wayback Wednesday photos to know that Huntsville is proud of its past. These were some of your favourite Wayback photos in 2017. (If you have photos depicting Huntsville’s past that you’d like to share, we’d love to see them! Send them to [email protected].)
Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab
The most popular Wayback Wednesday post was actually a video shot in 1985 and shared on YouTube by Steph Parrott (stephparrott).
It brought back a wave of memories for Doppler readers. Here are a few:
David Johns said: “Lots of businesses gone. Full serve gas station. What that?”
Donna Jane Rowan added: ” 5 years before we moved back up here to stay! Miss Economy Fair, Eatons, Steadmans etc. I worked at the A & P when it was there. So many changes.”
Hanne Smidt Sodergard wrote: “This is The Huntsville that I remember from a fantastic year a Rotary exchange student 1980 – 81 I met such hospitality from so many that has inspired my life. Don’t think that I ever thanked Cavalcade of Colour that developed my films free of charge ?”
Sharon Palmer commented: “So many happy memories came rushing back! We now live in Alberta but will always carry a piece of Huntsville in our hearts!”
And Riley Towns brought a different perspective: “I was born in 85. Seen a few things that I remembered though that were still around when i was a wee lad ?? Really enjoyed watching this video. Made me remember how much i love this town.”
Construction of the technical wing at Huntsville High School, 1963
This photo stirred up some high school memories for a few Doppler readers:
Linda Grace Tobias (via Facebook): HHS! I loved this school; lots of great friends, teachers & Memories! After over 50 years our friendships are still alive & well. ? This school was & is our common denominator.
Kris Rowan (via Facebook): It’s Huntsville High School. I hated the place but I got through to Gr.12
Dave Johns: The building of Technical Wing at H.H.S. It was completed for the 1963-64 school term. Lucky to be one of the first graduating Tech class in 1966. Mr. Mason was our Auto class teacher and he was a good one. Mr. Kline, the wood working teacher, headed up this whole project.
Martha Watson: I remember writing grade 13 “Departmental” exams in June, 1963 to the sounds of construction outside.
Brian Tapley: My comment is exactly the same as Dave Johns. We had Mr. Bird for electrical shop, Kline for wood shop, Mason for Auto. I can’t remember the machine shop person but I think it was Mr. Clare for drafting and Mr. Cullen was the welding and occupations shop I think. This was an amazing facility that has been under utilized lately. Instead of dropping grade 13 we should have added grade 14 so that students could have gone further in their education without having the expense of having to go to another city to college. There could be an amazing amount of co-op learning happen at the high school level but they lack the time to make it work. Too bad.
Thanks to Muskoka Heritage Place for supplying the photo.
This photo was taken in January of 1983, but many Doppler readers guessed differently thanks to the earlier model van.
A few readers dared to share some Empire memories:
But Seth Verzyden said what many others were likely thinking: Empire memories? Those are best kept a secret. Lol
Photo courtesy of Ryan Kidd
Doppler readers helped fill in the blanks about this event — Dice on Ice — that stopped running years ago:
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.”
Doppler readers enjoyed this decades-old view of Huntsville’s Town Dock, guessing its date as anywhere from the 1920s to the 1970s. Unfortunately, we don’t know the exact date this photo was taken but a note inscribed on the back tells us it was from the 1930s or 1940s.
Do you have a favourite Wayback Wednesday photo from 2017 not mentioned here? Let us know what it is in the comments! If you missed some of the earlier ones we’ve posted, you’ll find them all here.
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