{"id":68922,"date":"2019-06-12T05:17:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T09:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=68922"},"modified":"2019-06-11T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:34:08","slug":"wayback-wednesday-2019-flaxman-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wayback-wednesday-2019-flaxman-block\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Wayback Wednesday: Flaxman Block"},"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 is the Flaxman Block, built in 1901 by tailor E. Flaxman. Do you know where on Huntsville&#8217;s Main Street this building once sat? Click the image above to see the full photo. (Photo 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week we shared this photo with you:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-68573 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-23-Huntsville-downtown-aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-23-Huntsville-downtown-aerial-630x403.jpg 630w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2019\/06\/Wayback-Wednesday-2019-23-Huntsville-downtown-aerial.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The date we have associated with this aerial photo of downtown Huntsville is 1968, but comments from Doppler readers suggest it may have been earlier than that. Here are a couple of them:<\/p>\n<p>Terry McCaffery: &#8220;Late 50&#8217;s or very early 60&#8217;s: the McCaffery building is still standing! My Dad sold it to Dominion Stores @ 1961 when it was razed and the Dominion store was built!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bob Forde: &#8220;By-pass &amp; Bell on Princess both went up in &#8217;59. McCaffery block came down in &#8217;61. 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