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After Jupps Sunoco was built in about 1939, the townsfolk commented how great it was to see this once horrible eye sore property looking now so neat and tidy. Do you know when it was demolished and what is there now? (Photo: Muskoka Digital Archives)
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Doppler readers correctly guessed that this photo was taken on the Huntsville High School stage. It was on September 24, 1971 as part of initiation.
I would think this would have been another man by the same name, since I have never heard tell of the Haliburton Cliff Elstone leaving town.
My grandfather was named Clifford Elstone. Was “your” Clifford Elstone the Clifford who bought a gas station in Strathroy? I remember as a very small child listening to Grandpa’s comments about the oil business in southwestern Ontario.
Nice picture! We had a Dodge-DeSoto dealer here in Haliburton, known as Chambers’ Motors. Originally it was Haliburton Motors, established by Saul Bernstein in 1936; he sold it to brothers Tom & Wally Chambers in 1945. They changed it to Chambers’ Motors. The building was frame construction; it burned down in 1949. The Chambers brothers did not have the capital to re-build, so apparently Ran Jupp helped out financially & was a background partner. In 1950 the new cement block garage opened. It was at this time that Chambers’ Brothers cancelled their Texaco agency & became a Sunoco dealer, as was Mr. Jupp. Wally eventually moved on to other endeavours; Tom continued w. the business until 1955 when he sold the business to Clifford Elstone. Tom then became Haliburton’s fire chief; he was killed in the Bank of Montreal fire here in 1956. Elstone Motors continued on site until they had a new building erected in 1989. Sadly, they closed in 2003. The Jupp-Chambers building became Sharpley Sports; Sears took over the newer Elstone builing. We wonder if anybody knows the details of Mr. Jupp’s involvement here in Haliburton? Just out of curiosity, was his name “Ran” short for Randall or Randolph?
My dad worked there but I’m not sure what year it was. I just remember it being mentioned.
I’m going to take a wild stab at Jupp Motors. The business started on the corner of Main and Center in 1935. 1939, due to lack room at his Ford dealership and Esso Station, Ran Jupp the owner, purchased the very swampy property on King William between Fairy Ave and Hanes Street, once the location of our Town first covered skating rink called Paulley’s Palace Rink. After a lot of draining and filling in, the new modern Jupp Motors opened it doors on July 1/1939, selling Blue Sunoco gasoline. He also built his Muskoka Oil facility at this time on Young Street where his bulk gas and oil tanks were located by the R.R. tracks. Mr. Jupp sold his business in 1957 followed by a lot of different owners: McKee, Finnigan, Brueton and lastly Bickley. 1989 the building was demolished to make way for a strip mall, with M&M Meats the first store to open on May 11/1990.