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Limehouse Hall

2/28/2018

-So many memories of Christmas Concerts in that Hall. ❤️Learned to square dance there, Bill Briggs was my partner.
-Lots of memories there. I remember the square dances we had there and the Christmas concerts. All the decorating and rehearsal for them. The boys getting a tree and dragging it to the hall. Bill Briggs and I sang together one time. He held a ball and I held a doll. Dont remember what the song was about but at the end of it we traded toys. Girl Guide group meetings were there. Wedding showers were held there so all the community cud go. When I got married our wedding reception was there. I have pictures from when my parents got married and their small reception was there. Lots of memories😁
-Eleanor...You taught me to eat olives there. 😂. Remember the smell of coffee brewing on the old stove and the great sandwiches and desserts after the euchre parties. The Christmas concerts were wonderful memories too.
“Come one, Come all to Limehouse Hall”. 😁
-Yes. I remember all that. Lots of stuff took place at that hall. If someone from the village was getting married or having a baby there was always a community celebration with lots of food. My parents played for dances there as well. Dont really remember the olive part but u did tell me that before. Hope u still like them.
-I remember your parents playing there too!
-Of course. You taught me well!😂
-so many great memories there, my sister and myself both had our wedding receptions there
-I got shitfaced at one of them :]
-I think it was mine...both you and John
-It was blast :]
-Those were the good old days eh! Good times!
-my engagement took place there as well as my wedding reception and dance...many many many happy memories there.
-Lots of memories for sure. Hugs
-The shed in the back is from the days when people took their horse and buggies to meetings and church.
-I remember well the shed being where the outhouse was and later they added a toilet and now I think the hall has indoor plumbing lol.
-Bill Briggs wonders who remembers when the side wall of the hall fell over near their house.
-Oh yes. I do remember that!
-I do it was a big event
-Nope, don't remember that.
-Think you had left the village by then. ????
-Probably Heather.
-Lived just three doors up the Fifth Line in the house in front of the Animal Control building for about 10 years great place to live.
-I remember the wall caving in. It WAS a big event
-We used to climb on the roof and look at the cn tower at night.

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Limehouse Hotel

2/28/2018

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-love the Limehouse pictures
-Ok trying to figure out where this one is Linda Clarke
-Across from Limehouse School... :)
-next door to Benton`s store Sam and Mary Gisby lived there, at one time it was known as the old hotel.
-Thanks Linda I thought it was Benton’s store at first thanks for the help hugs 🤗
-lol
-I lived just down from there at 22 Newton Street across the CN road from Spike Scott and his family :)
-I think you lived in the same house we did Don was there a dint at the bottom of one of the top row of cupboards where I jumped up to swipe a cookie.
-My Mom used to flag down the train to go into Gtown to shop and come home with my Dad.
-I remember being able to do that at the old station. Wonder if it is still there?
-Remember when we met up with Fred Gisby a few years ago with Ann and June Briggs! Not going to comment on the conversation but we laughed all the way home!😂
-There were no street
names back when we lived there! We just knew where everyone in the village lived!
-Lived just below the tracks overpass on 6th line. Pld stomping grounds
-This is the house I grew up in. Gisby's on one side and Culps on the other.
-this was the last place my mom lived.
-Dawn I just couldn’t remember all those trees 🌲 out front.
-My Uncle Sam & Aunt Mary lived there when I was a kid. Always had a great time visiting them.
-Mary was one of our 4 H leaders and our Sunday school teacher! Great lady!
-Yes. Remember that place. I remember Sam and Mary Gisby. Between this place and Bentons store was a road that went down one hill and up another by the railroad tracks. My family lived in the house by the tracks.
-I remember that Eleanor those hills were big but we never ran out of tobogganing hills in Limehouse 😜

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A&W

2/28/2018

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-I remember it as Wendy's!
-It was A&W and dog and suds was across the road
-I remember A&W :) My dad would buy the big glass jugs of root beer and bring them home.
-Yes, Wendy's was across from Dog and Suds. Luckily Ed took McDonalds offer and went out with style and some money. McDonalds tried to buy the land on that side of the street, first.
-Worked at Kinney shoes when it first opened
-In the 70s,it was Kinney’s shoes A&W and Macs milk, later Mr Sub.and Dave’s BP.on the other side it was a gas station Dog and Suds and a White House later Petro Can a car wash and Mc Donalds
-Kinney’s shoes is actually where angels is now.
-I worked at the Petro Fina for awhile, nights 11:00pm to 7:00am (while still going to high school), grade 12.....lots of stories...lol
-That building was never Mac's Milk. It was beside A&W in its own building. Also it could never have housed Kinney Shoes it was way too small. It was where Angels is now.
-I stand corrected, Mr Sub was a Becker’s not a Mac’s Milk according to someone else’s post. I still think it was a Mac’s before the Mt. View S store opened
-I'm with you on this one Glen. Seventies were blurry for me as well!😜😂🤣😎✌️
-mr sub was macs and lyn was the owner
-Kinney shoes was where angels is now
-so what used to be in the paint store
-colour your world was the 1st store in that bldg
-no, the back part of Pizza Pizza is still the original A&W bldg also Wendy’s too
-ya it’s coming back to me now, Mac’s before the Mountainview location opened..
-Yup, that was Wendy's in the mid/late 80's and closed in the early 90's. A&W was before my recollection I guess...
-There was a coin car wash beside Dog and Suds. You could clean the car and have a snack.
-I remember wendys
-I worked as a cook at A&W in the seventies. Remember all these place well
-Yes met my wife in parking lot of then A & W, in 1970 👍😎
-How I remember the A&W.
-You ordered over the speaker/intercom in those day!
-Back in the day you could get 5 happy burgers and a small coke for $2
-i remember going there as a kid
-We still have a A&W Just not the one this is about
-And Wendy’s.
-I can just barely remember eating in the car off a tray hooked to the window at A&W....
-Could’ve got me a mama burger!
-My father built the A&W.early 70's
-1969 I believe I worked there when it opened
-what about the Coney Fries?
-That was at Dogs and Suds.....your old man would know, he ate enough of them.....lol
-We worked their together LaurieGolden remember? I think I have some pics
-Sure do Laurie ......
-That's pizza pizza all day long
-A little confused..... i thought that mcd's was the originals A&W. Pizza pizza was Wendys.
-Pizza Pizza was Wendy's, But A&W was there in that spot in the 70s
-Dogs and Suds was where McDonalds is now
-I remember the A&W when it was across from the dod & suds.Ate there every night before going home.It used to be great, you pulled up into a space flashed your lights girl came out took your order & brought it out to you on a tray....
-I rember A&W leveled and then Wendy's was built.
-I remember briefly . I was very young ..but the ladies on roller skates and the speaker box. Great root beer floats !
-Thank you. I remember the roller skates
-Wasn’t it also Wendy’s in the 80’s
-Yes

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Trafalgar Road Bend

2/28/2018

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-How things have changed.
-Remember hitting black ice on that corner . thank goodness there was a nice ditch lol
-A big change for that corner, but it is a lovely building.
-It was called McCulloughs Corner, that was their farm on the right, which is JW property now.
-There was a pioneer cemetery there too, if I remember correctly.
-dear old dad passed in this place 14 years ago...
-You are correct . It was out of respect for those who remained buried there, in graves not found, that the developers of Extendicare's facility, shown in the above photo, had to redesigned the entrance to the facility onto Hwy 7 rather than the proposed Lindsay Court. It unfortunately created a terribly dangerous entrance and exit to visitors, many of whom are seniors, as well as to employees at all hours of the day and night, and lots of confusion as the address remains as 9 Lindsay Court but with no entrance from that Court.
-Saw a car miss the curve completely - good thing there was not a building on that corner then.
-I grew up just down the road

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8th Line/Car Clubs

2/28/2018

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-The club moved.
-Tachman Car Club...not too sure it exists anymore
-It was originally the "Majestics Car Club" was part of doing all the work in removing stalls, cleaning, painting, get heating system, plumbing repairs etc, etc etc!!!
-The car club has been gone for a number of years. My husband was a member till we moved but still stayed in touch with its members.
-It was on the right side, just a wee bit farther down from where you took this photo. Richard Elwood, weren’t you a member of this club?
-Club finished up as far as I know
-was it random car club on 8th line radical car club was mountainview and river rd
-Tachman Car Club on the 8th line , Don’t remember if to was Radical or Random at Mt. View N and River back in the early 70s/late 60s
-hubby belonged to radical club at mtview and river im pretty sure
-didn’t it burn?
-It burned down while it was Transmit ion club....Random has been in the same location for 50 yrs....Steve
-where is random club
-ya that’s what I thought 50th Anniversary. This yr. right..
-Glen Williams
-Random is across the road and back in from St Albans in the Glen, been there since 1968 :) Dave Puckering one of the founding members is still there, Rick was a member of Random for several years :)
-I remember being at the Glen Club, with Rick, back in the very early 70s, but I thought that Club moved. Great that it’s still there!
-It was the Tachman car club,8th line & 15 th sidroad. They had to get out when they started building houses there.
-It's West Bank Trail and Foxtail Court now.
-Used to be back in the day good places to park
-It was Tachman car club. On the left hand side driving out of town, where the homes are being built. It was there for many years.
-The Tachman car club does not exists anymore. It folded when they had to get out of that building.
-Yes TRUE , Joanne but before the TACHMEN , there was a club called the MAJESTICS CAR CLUB , that was in that same building back in the day ...
-Bob belonged to one there Glen many years ago. Have no clue what it was called.
-That was their name Heather, THE MAJESTICS ..
-There is a real old car just off the trail between the 8th and 9th line ! Been there a long time. Perhaps from the car club years ago...
-What was the car club that was in the Glen?
-This is our 50th Anniversary Barb :) I was one of the founding members, along with Glenn's brother Rick, his father Ernie bulldozed it all for us, a lot of hours :)
-Hi,Barb the car club that is still in THE GLEN is called Random CAR CLUB ....
-Tacmen on the 8th I think ?
-Where WA the Radical car club?
-Mountainview and Riverdrive ?
-yes mtview and river im sure hubby belonged
-Radicals moved to Todd Road when they left River Dr and Mountainview
-That it was hwy 7 and 22 nd side ??
-no.. 8th line.. 15 side road is at the bottom of the hill
-I was just told tacman and radical and random car clubs

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IGA

2/28/2018

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-Loved the IGA shopping there every Friday night after Ron got paid,Bill Barber who was once manager always gave my daughter a banana,
-We always shopped there as well, back in the day , was a great store then , back then in the 70s n 80s , the CALDWELL family owned n ran it ...EH Barry ( husband of Betty Calldwell)....
-I loved the IGA.. it always had that small town feel to it
-I remember it had an odor. Mom went there for her CHCH-TV Bingo cards. She won prizes playing a few times. We got our first electric can opener that way.
-I was Produce Mgr.there 1976-78
-Frank & I loved shopping there.
-My Dad won a tv there
-I remember when they tore it down
After a fire right....i was real young
-Worked there 2 x. 1985 and 1987 I think.
-I remember I was a part time cashier there

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Dick Licata Outdoor Pool

2/28/2018

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-Lots a great memories here😀
-There will be 3 buildings on the site when its done the sign says.
-They are only going to build one condo this year Richard,I live in Victoria Gardens could be a noisy summer,but these new ones are quite pricy starting at the low $400,00 and this is a small unit about 800 square feet,these are not affordable for many people who only have their pensions
-I looked at some of the list prices around the old spots. The $45,000 townhouses on Mountainview are almost half a million dollars now too. Once upon a time, we didn't have granite for anything but headstones - now its kitchen countertops.
-Doug and I looked to purchase a condo. there, and trust me, there is nothing for the low 400’s. These are a very pricey item! We were going to buy, and rent it out. Did not make financial sense to me !
-Spent many summer days at that pool .
-I never learned to swim, but saw it on the way to school. It opened and closed with the school year, if I recall.
-Yes it did. Then lessons in the morning and public swim in afternoon and evening. I often went swimming 3 times a day. The sounds of summer from our house on the hill were the children's voices, the lifeguards whistles when they did their safety checks of the pool, and the 'boing' of the diving board.
-and pools were not heated then
-No they weren't. In July it was life shattering to jump in😨
-Still can’t master the Elementary Back stroke...... lol
-Great summer memories
-Now when it hot a shit out you have to go to the indoor pool
-Lot of old memories at that place
-So sad. Spent a lot of time there.
-Outdoor pool thing of the past now it's indoor pools and splash pads. Once your too old for splash pad then it's indoor pools to look forward to
-Learned to swim there😲
-Times there are a changing. I loved that swimming pool.
-Built by the Lions Club and a source of fun for all for many years.
-That's a real good old memory! What street was the outdoor pool on?
-Mill st. Behind old arena
-thank you! we lived down on Duncan Drive so we didn't get to go there too often but I still have lots of fond memories of having been there :)
-Many memories at that pool.
-Dayfoot Dr. And mill street old areana
-Love the pictures Bonnie. As we do not live in Georgetown now it is nice to see how things have changed
-This is where I learned to swim, remember the metal tag we would pin on our suits for the basket we kept our belongings in, also putting our feet in a container to get rid of our bugs lol
-Used to bike there, swim, then go to 'Jean's' for ice-cream!
-From what I have been told, there was at one time a slaughterhouse on the site where the pool was.
-CORRECT
-Sad. My dad's old house is to the left of the church on the hill at the bottom of Morris Street. Actually, town plans show Morris Street coming down hill to parking lot.
-What a shame.
-Where did it go
-Dick Lacata (spl) Donated money for this pool also. We school kids sold raffle tickets to help raise money for the pool, Anyone remember that. It was called the Dick L. Pool back in the day.
-That's what I was thinking - I think a Lions Club member?
-Very sad over 20 years of swimming with friends and family. It was an awesome spot as a kid and a shame the kids today will never be able to build bonds as we all did.
-"The pool opened in the fifties after the Georgetown Lions Club raised most of the funds for the $50,000 capital project and then handed the property over to the Town, according to a front page article in the Georgetown Herald in August 1956. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006. This was also its last year open, with an operating budget of $52,500 from the tax base.
-In 1980, the outdoor pool was renamed the Dick Licata Memorial Swimming Pool in honour of the man who played a vital role in its planning and construction. Licata was a member of the Lions Club. A local grocer, he also served with the local chamber of commerce."
-I learned how to swim at that pool,along with a lot of other kids.
-Oh wow I spent most of my youth in that pool
-The pool is still there just buried under truckloads of foil Ron and I watched this for many days
-That where my parent live on 16 victoria st across to see pool there....

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Victoria Street

2/26/2018

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-The best place to grow up
-My mom and 2 of my sisters used to live on this Street.
-Where my life began
-My grandparents on mom's side of the family owned the house next door to you. The Bowers family got it after Grandma Maude Soper moved in with us.
-I was too young to remember but a couple of my siblings do remember the Bowers
-The house on the left is where I spent lots of time visiting my Aunt Edna Spence.. My mom lived there for a bit too.. Judy Hayes
-Agreed, I loved our old house #37
-Anybody remember Jack Morrow pidgeons? He had fancies and rollers.
-i lived next door to him. he was a miserable man
-I was too young to see that. I helped him clean his busses in the summertime. I did know he liked to drink.
-I lived on Victora Avenue but apparently having two Victorias was confusing so they renamed it Dayfoot drive after I moved. Not only is my birth home replaced... My first school was torn down, but my address literally was removed from existence.
-Life is strange went to Chapel Street school now I live on Chapel Street so my life has gone full circle,I remember when Dayfoot was Victoria walked that street everyday when going to school,I lived on Dufferin and a lot of times would walk across the tracks at the bottom of Temple Road

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River Tunnel - On John Street

2/26/2018

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-I remember all the pink and blue colours spewing out of it
-Huh? When?
-Almost every day was a different colour. The pipe from the paper mill is still on the other side. The river goes right past well 6 for the towns drinking water. When did they stop dumping the resins in the river?
-It does need a clean-up. Would be a great parkette, yes there is such a thing!
-We were forever swimming and exploring in the culvert and where it deepens from the drop there. Also further down stream a bit on the other side of the road, the creek drops in elevation again there. I don't recall any colours in the water? Late 70's, early 80's.
-50-60's. Nobody knows how deep the chemicals go from the ponds on Mountainview.
-Jezzus. 😕 Crayfish and minnows were plentiful, and none we found had two heads or anything, so fingers crossed our DNA remains unaffected!? Lol.
-The stench would sit in the valley at the bottom of Mountainview and hit you as you drove down the hill. They had sprayers to minimize the smell, but that never worked
-my mom told me about this.. she said it was a different colour almost everyday
-Magnetta was a goodie. Sometime the colour would just be a trickle down the right shoreline, other times the whole river was the colour of the day at the coating mill.
-Colour depended on the paper they were processing at the mill. Late 50s early 60s when it stopped. Rather a jarring sight. Before your time
-Paper mills and air and water quality were at odds in those day. The sulphur smell was the signature aroma in places like Cornwall and Prince George to make the paper in the first place.
-oh yes, many days walking to school the river would be a different colour. I used to think it was quite magnificent ..

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The Culvert

2/26/2018

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-Beep beep!
-“Sound Horny”
-Still use it on a regular basis. Really missed it when it was closed.
-How well i remember that road beep beep many time
-boy this lady found me up on top of here many time's
-my kids called it the honk honk bridge
-Remember the chase scene in 'To Catch an Honest Thief'?
-The “honk honk bridge”
-The old old Esquesing map shows a lake on this side.

-Legend has it that my dad was in a car that passed another "inside" the culvert bridge...
Bud Hayes - Oh this did happen I was part way in to it from the east and this girl decidedt o go thru and she did Charlie Hanna was on the other side [may be some one will ask CHARLIE TO CONFURM THIS] Ii know this is not B/S I WAS there
Don Fendley - This from Charlie: Yes I witnessed this happening. There was a small car in the culvert and a woman came down in a volkswagon came charging through. The cars did not touch each other or the wall of the culvert. She kept right on going as if nothing had happened. The guy in the other car his eyes got as big as saucers. Bud Hayes was at the other end and saw the same thing .Charlie

-Honk honkkkk
-The sign read "sound horney"
-With all the debates and arguments about what to do to make it better, the road belongs to the town. Everything above it belongs to CN. There are no pictures and not a lot of maps of before the hill for the tracks was built from the station over to what was the White Bridge. All of that was man-made.
-Lived just up the street
-i lived 2 doors up from culvert back in 60 s
-We lived at 25, 29, 31 and 20... before we moved downtown (to 29 Park Ave.) We all played in the land behind those houses between the homes and the tracks.
-Always a pet peeve when people didn't sound their horn. Had a couple of Mexican standoffs with someone who didnt sound their horn.
-it gets quite icy now after they extended the tracks they now have a run off for the water and it goes right threw the tunnel down the center and when it freezes it is brutal to walk threw
-It was too narrow for the snow plows to go through
-its just the running water when it freezes it gets really icy and slippery sidewalk plows could go threw
-My parents rented the little white house on the hill on the other side of the tunnel for a couple of years. We got used to the sound of the trains and the honking of the cars. Some great childhood memories of that time and then a move to Academy Road...a great end of town to grow up in 🤗
-I grew up in one of the houses just through the honk honk bridge! And my gramma lived in the big red house (that is now being completely ripped apart) I found the trains and shaking in my room very soothing! I miss living there so much!
-I even sounded my bicycle horn going through there.
-The honk honk bridge!!! So many memories just came back to me!!
I hope they never get rid of that!!
-every day to school
-Walked thru the tunnel many many times walking down town or to school.Notice I said WALK .When I was young in the sixties.There was no can I get a ride here or there.I walked all over this town to get to where I wanted to go. Thru all fore seasons.....Ken..
-Walked through culvert to visit my Granny Cummins. She lived in the white house up the road beside Saunders old store.
-Always remember the guys saying Honk if your Horny
-Lol lol
-use to use the tunnel to go to my in law on Ontario street
-Always called it the Horny Tunnel
-Loved driving (well being driven) through tunnel
-Jack Morrow would drive his school bus through. It fit! I do member a truck getting stuck and they had to let the air out of the tires to help get it out. We could still cross at the station in those days as another way home. Now without the tunnel, it would be a long drive to get up to Victoria and John.
-We walk that way often...
-Got chased off the top of this place many time for throwing rocks at car's. Shit did I just rat myself out. lmoa.
-GOT CHASED OF HERE MANY TIME'S
-Memories....
-The squeezie bridge.
-My parents owned red house just beside it. My first 20 years and they owned white bungalow that sits beside it on the bank on the other side of culvert. That property still in family. Lol you know who is old Georgetown just by what they call it. Great memories!
-We didn't have a railing around the sidewalk in front of the house like they do now, going around the corner.
-That's right. No railing.
-Honk.
-Lived right beside it for a while.
-Beep Beep
-So true
-Got busted by the cops for taking our go carts through there at 11 o clock at night :]
-I unskillfully left blue paint from my poor Dad’s 65 Pontiac’s right front fender on a stone that stuck out an exceptional distance when driving through. 😩
-Was a nail biter going through there :]
-Cars are smaller now!].🤣
-Beeeeep, Beeep.
-My first memory of Georgetown. Walking to school on Chapel Street
-Still looks scary to drive though. I miss the terror on my mother’s face driving through that in a giant crysler Córdoba lol
-Honk honk bridge
-beep beep
-brings back great memories
-I recall driving through the beep beep tunnel in my family's 1961 Chev and hearing the loudest noise. I was sure I hit the wall until I realized it was a train passing above.
-Lived on Dayfoot at Mill, would hear the car horns when passing through the tunnel.
-I lived right beside it thru the tunnel. The trains and honking at first drove me nuts but eventually got used to it lol

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