{"id":61182,"date":"2019-01-23T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=61182"},"modified":"2019-01-23T01:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:26:48","slug":"its-wayback-wednesday-2019-ss-algonquin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/its-wayback-wednesday-2019-ss-algonquin\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: S.S. Algonquin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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>This week, passengers disembark from the S.S. Algonquin. Can you guess the decade when this photo was taken? (Photo: Muskoka Heritage Place Collection)<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60911\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-3-Capitol-Theatre-3-cropped.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-3-Capitol-Theatre-3-cropped-630x299.png 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/01\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-3-Capitol-Theatre-3-cropped.png 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This 1944 image shows the first location of the Capitol Theatre, formerly the King George Theatre, which was built in 1926. The building was later home to a bowling alley (which opened in 1952) and Blair McCann Sports. It now houses Reflections of Muskoka, next to the Algonquin Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The Giaschi family built a new theatre, its present location, that opened on November 2, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Doppler reader Marg Wiegand shared these memories of the Capitol Theatre with us: &#8220;Spent many [most?] Saturday afternoons at the Capitol during the &#8217;40s. 10 cents admission and during the war there were some days it cost a can of food [for THE WAR EFFORT]. I don\u2019t remember popcorn being available and still do not eat in theatres. There were always kid-friendly movies on in the afternoons but we also saw all the Warner Pathe News Reels from WWIi. The Giaschis pretty much ran a Saturday afternoon day care service for all the busy mothers in town. Loved growing up in Huntsville and love even more today that it all happened the way it did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Marg!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you want to see more Wayback Wednesday photos, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/category\/lifestyle\/wayback-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, passengers disembark from the S.S. Algonquin. Can you guess the decade when this photo was taken? 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