{"id":16201,"date":"2016-06-15T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T10:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=16201"},"modified":"2016-09-10T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T00:30:33","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-movies-in-the-heart-of-huntsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-movies-in-the-heart-of-huntsville\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: Movies in the heart of Huntsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we&#8217;ll be sharing a vintage photo and asking our readers to chime in with anything you can recall about the photo, other related memories, or even a funny caption. Have some vintage photos of your own? Send them to huntsville@doppleronline.ca and we may share them with our readers!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scroll down to see last week&#8217;s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this week&#8217;s photo: the King George Theatre. It was built in 1926 and movies later moved to the Capital Theatre. Do you recall what happened to the original King George? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Heritage Place.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"48158\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15839\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-21-header.jpg\" alt=\"Wayback Wednesday 21 header\" width=\"1404\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-21-header-630x302.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-21-header.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dave Johns wondered: &#8220;Could someone been speeding in the river with that high H.P. ski hull boat? No way!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roger Staig ventured: &#8220;The year is 1975. The Police brought in the speed boat behind it for either speeding or the engine failed and they towed it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Stan Dronseika filled us in with more details than we knew (which was only that they had recovered a stolen boat and that the year was 1985): &#8220;Yes\u2026. they were bringing back a \u201cJ\u201d Craft, but it was later than \u201975. At that time there was a lad in town by the name of Jamie who loved that boat. He stole that boat from us on five occasions as I remember. It\u2019s hard to tell if this photo was taken the first time, or on one of the other five times that Jamie \u201cborrowed\u201d it. I remember him quite fondly because of his craftiness at making off with it no matter how securely we thought we had protected it. Not only that but Jamie never harmed the boat. 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