{"id":52595,"date":"2018-07-25T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=52595"},"modified":"2018-07-25T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T11:52:49","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-2018-the-old-empire-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-2018-the-old-empire-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: The old Empire Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Wayback Wednesday sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab! Every week, we\u2019ll 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\u2019s photo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 1980s photo of the old Empire Hotel offers a very different view compared to what&#8217;s at the corner of Main and Centre today. It&#8217;s still private property, but if you had the chance to redevelop the lot and money was no object, what would you build here? (Photo by Dr. N.E. Hunt courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives.)<\/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<p>Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51709\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2018\/07\/Wayback-Wednesday-2018-29-Bayview-Main-St-W-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"702\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1936 image of the Bayview Lodge &amp; Restaurant, owned by the Muskoka Wood Manufacturing Company and which was used primarily as a boarding house for their workers. 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