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Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we’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

Scroll down to see last week’s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week, a throwback to days when the Empire Hotel was still standing. Can you guess the date? Do you have any Empire memories to share? (Click on the image above to see it full size.)<\/strong>
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Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/p>\n

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The lack of trees stumped a few of our readers, but David Speicher and Dave Johns correctly noted the location as the canal near its exit to Pen Lake. It comes from a 1910 postcard courtesy of the Toronto Public Library, Special Collections.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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