Blog Archives

Armstrong's Garage

12/27/2017

-Behind that front Makeover is the Original Garage Front.
-Spent many a day watching Dave work on race cars. A very intelligent guy. We lost him way too soon.
-The asbestos brake pad dust killed so good mechanics. Dave was definitely one of the best mechanics G’town ever had. I know three G’town mechanics who died of lung or throat cancer. Definitely asbestos related...
-Thanks for sharing
-Well back in the Day it was the Busiest shop on week-ends to my knowledge
-WHEN the drag strip was running a lot of the FORDS [ big name racers ] would stop in and have DAVE tune them up before going to the track /DAVE WAS VERY WELL KNOWN FOR THIS
-There are many positive superlatives to describe Dave Armstrong. Those of us lucky enough to have known Dave will always have great stories to tell and cherish about this brilliant man.
We miss you, Dave.
-I painted that shop when I was in high school. He hired me because my step dad Jake Laird was a good friend of his.
-Dave Armstrong. A good man !!
-Do you remember how wide the pavement was out by the pumps before the road was widened.I remember Dave and his love for cars.
-WHEN DAVE graduated out of mechanic school the presented him with a gold adjustable wrench HE WAS TOPPS IN THE CLASS
-Sure Knew How To Make Carburaters Talk !!!

0 Comments

Choi's

12/27/2017

0 Comments

-jug city!
-Is this Archie’s
-Archie's
-Archie's , I grew up on Elizabeth St. I remember Mom having a credit there & one of us could run up to the store for bread or milk etc. & Mom would go in at the end of the week & pay her bill !
-Lived on temple rd lots of memories
-I've never heard of Archie's ... Fill me in ;)
-Thats was Archie's store back in the early 60's and probably longer. I lived on Ewing then dufferin st. and that was the place to go Saturday morning.
-Archies in the mid 50;s. We lived 3 doors down on Ewing St,
-Fendleys owned it in my day. Tammy, Tommy & Tina & Terry were the kids. Howard & Phee (sp?) were the parents.
-Wow, this was Archie's? Top of Ewing and Main just over the White Bridge (it was never white). I lived on Ewing and I always remember this store as Archie's. Run to Archie's for a loaf of bread, or milk, or mum was in the mood for a coke float so go get some ice-cream and we all got a coke float. Spent our allowance, 25 cents, buying penny candy there. 10 cent cokes, 5 cent (little) or 10 cent (big) chocolate bars. Oh, I remember Archie's. 50's & 60's - oh those were the days.
-The cutest little french canadian couple.
-Redeemed many pop bottles there for penny candy.
-I remember it back in the fifties
-Wow Archies that brings back a lot of memories from years ago
-Corner of Ewing and Cherry?
-Yes we lived the corner of Ewing and Cherry st
-Archie's, I bought a lot of penny candy there.
-Remember Archie's very well. It was a great place to spend your allowance on penny candy. You could get a whole lot for a dime.
As kids we were often sent to the store for a loaf of bread or a jug of milk.
-That's what I remember. It was a LONG walk to and from school. That penny candy made the trip more enjoyable.
-Wasnt it the lucky dollar store at one time remember my mom collecting stamps and purchasing from a book
-I grew up on Ann St. and Archie’s was where all the kids went for everything! My Mom gave us a nickel on Fridays and we’d buy a treat onthe way home from Chapel Street School! Great times!
-Did they not have a son who worked in the store . l spent my tips from my paper route
-His name is Ted Girard still see him he lives in Paris on with his wife Mona Williams from Williams snack bar in the Glen
-My "corner store" was Maw's, down the hill.
-Choi’s when I owned the home just to the right of it in the 80s
-Do remember it as Jug City for yrs though.
-After Archie’s, It was Wilkes I think.
-I grew up on Ontario St. and would walk up there and it was Wilkses.
-This was great to see this picture. 😁
I lived close to this store. My Dad and I walked there one day for goodies.
As we arrived there were three guys leaning up on the wall/window near the ice machine. They looked cool...arms folded and just relaxed. So i went up beside them and copied them. The one guy looked down at me and said, "Whats up Squirt?"
Its one of the best memories i have and the nickname stuck. Giggle
-oh boy I spent lots of money there on penny candy , lived down the street !
-3 jubes for a penny. .25cents got you set up for a week.
-Corner stores were a great thing in those days, before they stuck gas pumps and coffee shops on street corners like they do now. But in those days kids could go to the corner store and mom's didn't have to worry.
-Archie Gerard was the first kindest person ever. I spent all my allowance money at “Archie’s”.
-Brought my nieces there when they lived on Ewing st. Also remember Joes Tuck shop downtown and Kay's beside the high school. Played pinball downstairs at lunch .
-Oh my gawd!? Bret had a note forgery that we would give the store keeper to buy cigarettes with! We pooled money and reused the note dozens of times. I recall not liking cigarettes when i first tried them, it really took some effort on my part to smoke them. I wonder if the overpass still bears any of our handy work? Probably all painted over by other kids by now. 😎
-That's where I got my penny candy on my trycicyle.
-Mike & Daisy Marko Gave Me Their Empty Pop Bottles , Cashed Wagons Full There No Problem...
-Did Mike Marko have a problem with one of his legs always remember him limping?
-Before Archies is was Pensions, and the three houses behind were all owned by Penson familys.
-Dang you're old Kent. I only go back as far as Archies😄
-I remember it as Archies too......back when I lived at 365 Main St N.....before Moore Park was even thought of!!!!
-One of the houses was owned by John Cadaro. Mum & Dad rented one from him. I think the middle house that were all the same.
-We lived in the house right behind Pensions until I was 7 , then we moved to King St.
-Used to be Archie's when I grew up on Dufferin St.think their last name was Girard
-I think the ppl that ran Chois. Bought KATRINA and Steve’s store in Alma just outside fergus
-Lived on Ewing in the 60's and was sent to Archie's many times to fetch smokes for parents with any change left for candy. Thanks for sharing!
-I remember painting rocks gold and getting us to go in the store with the gold rocks and buy candy and Archie would always give us some
-Thats funny. Glad it worked!
-It was funny
-Hewson Cres and that area was Hewsons farm, used to play in the barn, and they had a white horse that Terry Bludd used to try and ride.If I remember correctly, Steamer Emmerson married a Hewson from the farm. When they built the Swanick subdivision my Aunt & Uncle Chuck & Eve Hennessey paid around $10,000, and my Dad saying," how the hell they ever going to pay for that".
-Great bit of history. Forgot about the Swanick name. Wonder if a photo exists of the Hewson farm before it was developed?
-We moved to Hewson in 1957. My parents paid $17900 for their house. Monthly mortgage and taxes were$85.
-My grandpa owned the hewson farm. My mom Margaret lived in the farmhouse with my sister and brother. Ehen the subdivision came in my mom moved into the house next door my grandna owned the next to house that she rented out my aunt Muriel and uncle wheldon (streamer) moved into 4 house down. Lots of memories. Elizabeth street was named after my grandma Elisabeth Hewson..
-That's interesting history. We lived in one of the Swanick homes throughout the 60's. I think the development completed around 1958. Perhaps Ewing st. was the only one there at the time of the farm?
-I remember the Moore farm that was across the road used to over there a lot really nice people
-I lived at 365 Main when I was a kid and only the farmhouse was across the road then.......way before Moore Park was ever built
-Jim, we also lived just around the corner from Archie's, at 11 Ewing, in '59-'60. That's where we lived when our dad died. Do you remember that? You would have been pretty young...
-PIL VARIETY (in the 80's!)
-was jug city for a while in the 80s
-sweet marie 6 cents🤗
-Thinking it was Archies in the late 60's........
-Used to go for cigarettes for my parents and they had ice cream (think they were called Mallow roles). Lived at 78 Main St., the house was taken down long ago, what a shame.
-Great memories! I lived on Temple in the late 80s and 90s and spent many times picking out candy and getting bread and milk for my mom. Oh and using the pay phone outside for private calls away from my mom lol....the days pre-cell phones remember those days?
-Way back in the day this store was owned n ran by the Girard Family . at one time the Manes Family ran this store , it was called JUG CITY then when we lived on Temple Road in the 70s early 80s ...
-Sat closed for a few years way back when a youngster living on Elizabeth Street. Fendley's owned it way back then the shutdown. Pay phone was above the garbage can in picture then the rusty bridge to get to Chapel Street School.
-"10¢ of mixed up candy please!"
-My Uncle Archie and Aunt Jessie Penson owned this store. I also worked there, part-time,in the 1970's when it was owned by Dave Manes and his wife. :) The three little white houses beside it on Ewing St., were given to my aunts as gifts from their mother. Mrs. Loude (my great grandmother on my Mom's side) Jessie, Kitty (Katherine) and Mildred. Her other daughter, Edith became my grandmother McDonald and owned a Fish N Chip Store on the main street of Barrie. It was great to visit my Aunts on Ewing St., and turn left down Arletta and visit my Grandpa Norton, Uncle Cliff and Uncle Abby (on my father's side of the family) ;)

0 Comments

Carpet Barn

12/27/2017

0 Comments

-Wasn't that Canadian tire at one time?
-yes it was
-I remember it as being a Massey Harris dealership but that was before I left town in 55. (corner of Mill and Number 7 ?? )
-Got my 1st ball glove there...
-It was the Arnold Glove factory in my great grandfather's time(H T Arnold)
-It was where the first Canadian Tire store in town.
-Love the mural!
-Canadian Tire?
-I DO THINK THAT at one time was a factory of gloves wool or some thing
-You're right, it was a glove factory. My grandparents, Martin Cummins (salesman) and Mary King (sewing machine operator), both worked there at the turn of the last century, before they were married. The glove factory was owned by Thomas Arnold, great-uncle to my husband, Ian Flewelling. Ian's grandfather, brother to Thomas's wife, moved across country to Alberta. I didn't know until I met Ian's parents in 1981, that his ancestors on both sides of the family had lived in the Erin area before moving to Alberta to homestead.
-Kennedy Mural Artist .. Michele Loughery ...
-Mural is wonderful
-Ernie worked there when it was the Old Canadian Tire store.
-I remember the Canadian Tire store.
-my uncle worked there too .. in the 60s ...
-i think there was a good Year tire shop there too at the back
-My Grandfather (Al Norton) owned The Carpet barn, My sisters and I loved to play there.
-Canadian tire was there in the 70's, got my hockey equipment from there.
-It used to be Canadian Tire. Got my first new bike there.
-The upstairs had a lot of uses too. Anyone remember a gymnastics club in the late '50's or the Tea Room in the '80's?
-My mom worked there when it was Canadian Tire.
-I remember when it was Canadian Tire, wonder how old the building is?
-Lived next door to it in the Speight house.
-My dad Louis Egerton manned the phones in a small space upstairs .. It was called the Contact Center where he took calls from people in distress .. mostly troubled teens ... apparently ..
-.. yes he did that for several years .. later on the Contact Center was moved to the old post office on Mill St. ..
-I remember going there with my father when it was the Canadian Tire
-Still call it the "old" Canadian Tire!

0 Comments

Kiyo's/ Harley's Garage

12/27/2017

0 Comments

-On mill?
-yes
-Amazing! He has been there forever. So cool. Thanks for sharing!
-remember when it was called harley motors
-Still take the car there. Trust them.
-Remember this as Harley Motors!
-I remember when Kiyo worked at Park Toyota before it became Park Lincoln , great mechanic especially on Japanese cars.
-Took my 47 ford there in the late 50's and Gord was the only one who found the problem, great memories
-Kiyo's has been there a looong time. But grew up with it being Harley ' s.
-Well, if that is Gord Harley's garage (once upon a time) then I used to go there with my mum to visit Aunt Peg.
-Went there all the time
-We moved next door in 1952. Kiyo was so good to my widowed father, always plowing his driveway.
-Pioneer!
-Me too. I just called him the other day.
-Can't believe he is still fixing cars, quite a man! He must be 100 years old!
-I don't think he is fixing cars. They told me his isn't well 😞
-As a friend of both his sons I can assure you he's still up and fixing cars even though he's not doing well, keeping his mind occupied. Many a good memories over the years there
-Hmmm. Parties up in the apartment in the early 80s ....beautiful!
-I used to visit the Harleys there,
-Super nice guy, he would help us kids with emergent bicycle repairs all the time. He didn't take kindly to us playing around the cars down the hill in behind the place though. (something we often did :) ). Sorry to learn he isn't well. He's got to be in his 70's by now? 80's maybe?
-I remember it as Harleys.
-I worked for Kiyo for 4 years 82 thru 86
-Kiyo was very good to me, set me up with a car when I started driving and let me make payments!:)
-Best import mechanic in town
-Harleys Garage a day or two ago
-I also remember it as Gord Harleys garage,& we had a vacant lot across the street for cars that were towed in & stored.
- Me too!
-I now live across from Kioys
-What ever happened to Gord Harleys son Doug.
-Doug is living in Whitby.
-That was my grandfather Gord Harley’s when I was growing up. Loved that place! Great memories with him and my grandmother. I now have the old coke machine fully restored from there...
-too bad kiyo was a great mechanic and guy.
-He's still there .. not well Ive heard but still around
-Lived on Dayfoot, Kiyo would be working all the time!
-Kiyo bought the building and business from Gord & Peg Harley, they lived in the apartment over the garage, I used to visit all the time! Good memories😍

0 Comments

Dayfoot Shoe Factory

12/20/2017

0 Comments

-Isn't that mill st apt. I used to live there
-so long ago...fun times with mostly fun neighbours...
-Lots of memories there!
-Lived there when I got married back in 1977.....thought it was still John Street though???
-Former Dayfoot Shoe factory
-They were called Mill st apartments when we were there...Albert Eutineer* was landlord
-Same here. Wonder if he still around
-Old Dayfoot shoe Factory .. was once John street.. Changed to Mill Street
-I grew up there. I babysat almost every kid that lived there and the apts next door at 18 Mill St 😊
-You were the first person I thought of when I saw the picture.
-Hey, I grew up there too. The fun we used to have playing hide and seek, red rover, etc.
-Sleepovers, riding our bikes up that "jump" and trying not to hit that little tree, ice skating on the creek, staying out until the street lights came on lol
-That whole area and surrounding wood lots and streams holds my childhood memories. Absolute freedom, wonderful.
-that little tree was a great home base for hide and seek. the stairwell to the storage units and that section of the building used to give me the creeps all the time. I spoke with mom today and we had a good little walk down memory lane. we lived there from 1973-1982'ish, some of the families that lived there when we did - the McLeod's, Bill & Betty Spence with their 2 boys, Rick & Trudy McNiven with their 2 boys, the Barton's with her 2 boys, the Sanderson's, Laura Given, the Hancock's and their 2 girls. So many wonderful memories. all of our friends from the area
-I know a few people who lived there
-I lived there once upon a time
-Is this the same building where Al worked making fiberglass boats??? (On John St next Silver creek??)
-Had always heard it was a boat manufacturer....I guess maybe after the shoe factory
-wasn't that next door, before that became apartments too?
-Possibly......was a big house with a large garage type building behind it when I lived in the long building
-yes.. I believe it is
-I too lived there
-Apartments on Mill street , across from Kiyo's parking lot.
-That's right , they did change John to Mill. I'll never understand why but that's exactly what they did. (???????????)
-we will never no why the Town People make there decision's. It seem's the Honk tunnel is where John street stops
-I do understand fully what you mean about these gestapo like decisions. John always ended at Bucks corner at (John) and number seven. John is the street the rink was built on, Harley's garage was located on John, and so on,😡😡😡😡 There, that's my grouch for today!!! 😁😁😁(O:
-Used to fish chub at the the culvert close by
-That creek now is full of big bows and browns in the spring
-Would make a special trip up from stoney creek just to get one of those from there
-Got couple over 10 lbs
-Caught a 14 inch brown at the little footbridge above the culvert. As a kid ,, I thought it was a whale.
-1925 is the date showing on one of the culvert updates
-Boy,, for a little town we sure did pull our weight in industry. Yes,,, I have always been proud as hell of Georgetown.
-Richard -That would have been prior to the two major support buttresses flanking the main arch being installed. The reason I say that is because most of the kids (self included) watched with great interest as the columns were pored by a railway crew of 50 or perhaps more young construction workers all housed in living / dinning / sleeping cars parked nearby for the period of construction. That must have been in the early 50s.
-Has anyone found maps or sketches from before the railway cut through town and divided the town?

0 Comments

Queen Street Houses

12/20/2017

0 Comments

-Houses on queen street.
Associated with Edward McCannah, station agent for the Grand Trunk Railway, who at one time owned most of the land on Albert, Queen, Guelph and McNabb Streets and built many of the houses on those streets.
-My grandfather Hazelton Hale was a Section Foreman for the Grand Trunk Railway and my father Art Norton also worked there for a short time.
-Grand houses indeed.
-I lived in Illahee the first house for a few years.
-Dad and I lived at Illahee too, in the 70's. The mainfloor apartment living room was huge with a firelplace.
-Probably the same apt with the fireplace..I lived there in the 50s
-You could freeze in the bathroom!
-Don't remember that but that is a long time ago. I was a teenager.
-Our first apartment was in the house on the left upstairs froze in the winter roasted in the summer but loved it there our first place, good memories
-Stately homes..
-Georgetown had it all. Limestone from Limehouse, bricks from Cheltenham and a rail line to bring them to town, and onto Toronto. Pine trees everywhere in the land of the tall pines for houses and furniture, and water!

0 Comments

Grandview House

12/20/2017

0 Comments

-Classic Grand Victorian, with room for the servants up top.
-My cousin and his wife had an apartment in there when they were newly married, 1968. I always thought it was an intriguing building.
-We lived there in 1968 in apartment 3.
-I delivered the to. star in this apt. building.....spooky
-I delivered the Herald and yes Spooky but now beautiful.
-Who was the original owner?
-Grand view house. H.T Arnold. A glove manufacturer
-Glove factory was at 26 guelph st. Where carpet barn is now.
-Some HT Arnold history....Acton supported many industries related to leather, particularly the W.H. Storey glove factory on Bower Avenue. Begun in 1868, Storey employed up to 250 people. He built his family a magnificent home on the corner of Mill and John Streets in 1879. The Storey family left the house at the end of World War 1 when Wilfred Coles ran it as a veterans' home.
It was a hotel until 1937 when it became a funeral home. Storey's son sold the business in 1915 to H.T. Arnold of Georgetown who ran the glove business until 1954. The four storey factory was razed in 1962 to accommodate the new Acton post office.
-Not sure what is going on in this house right now...i heard there was only 1 tenant living there. It is looking in need of some TLC on the outside.
-Gorgeous architecture
-Beautiful and Stately
-My first apt. Lower level left side.
-My very first apt was on the upper floor on the back side of this building... in what used to be servants quarters. It was small but quaint and I loved it.
-My grandparents lived there when I was a small girl.
-...thx so much for this picture. My mom’s aunt Nell Langan married Will Arnold who grew up in this house. Nell and Will lived in Acton after they married . I knew her when growing up in Acton. This is one beautiful home.
-Beautiful.....
-Thought it was made into Condo;s a few years ago?
-Beautiful looking house.
-Work is being done on it, side facing Albert St. They took down some stairs, roof work, parking lot. Started in the summer until recent from what I could see

0 Comments

Glen Oven

12/20/2017

1 Comment

-Too bad.
-Didn't realize it was closed.
-are they going to open
-I Remember when it was a Nature's Herbal Shop years ago
-Used to be Sid’s snack bar and gas ⛽️ years ago ! Best hamburger and fries around back in the day !
-Thanks for sharing
-Glen Williams has a Lot of History to share
-I believe there is some sort of legal action going on atm
-:( Use to be such a 'sweet' place. ;)
-Hope it does reopen....charming.

1 Comment

Baz Motors

12/20/2017

0 Comments

-My grandfather worked for Baz Motors
-And hazens small engines. He sold snowmobiles out of the back
-i worked in the back when they had the bodyshop
-C and v motor before baz
-My father Robert Burns used to manage it when it was Baz
-Lincon Motors before that lived there went it burned down
-Do you remember what year it burned down?
-I think 1969
-that is where I bought my car great service
-I use to pump gas there. When Hazen had his small engine shop also did pickups and delivery for Hazen.
-Hazen Sherry! Cool. Blast from the past. Knew his daughter Cydney.
-Mark Hornby
-I played on Baz Motors for atom house league hockey many moons ago lol
-Anybody remember Al Zeralive(sp?)auto repair at Guelph and Delrex? Repaired/sold Volkswagen cars.

0 Comments

Berwick Hall

12/20/2017

9 Comments

-who remembers the Noose that use to hang from the rafters outside on the park st side..
-is it gone?
-yeah
-Been gone for awhile
-yes i remember seeing it
-I still look for it whenever I'm downtown.
-Story went place was haunted after some one died there. As a kid used to run by the place. Scared me!!
-Story I remember was they used to hang people there back in the day!!!!!! Always shied away from the place myself......
-I remember your Mom taking me there as a child to play with other kids she babysat.
-I remember the noose. I recall legend had it that something bad happened (death, bad luck, fire...I can't remember what) if it was to be taken down. It hung there for years...I looked every time I went past. I don't live in Georgetown any more so have no idea if it is still hanging there.
-residence of John Roaf Barber, Built by E. J. Lennox in 1880
-He also built Toronto's "Old City Hall" and Casa Loma
-Spray on stucco was not a Lennox feature.
-cant tell from this picture but I wonder if there's stone under neath all that
-and ... Clearly they took out all the fire places.. I would have loved to see it in all it's glory..
-what was it when it was first built
-Single family home for John Barber
-when I was a little girl i used to go there to visit with my family it was beautiful , yrs later i worked for Col, Barber who was born in this house I have his christening blanket from 1907,, he grew up in splendor, he owned Barber Travel & Insurance co, and his house on Market st has been restored beside the Library and is for sale I think for 2 million .
-it was built for the Barber. I believe col Barbers father was the first owner. Who was the owner of Barber mill.
-My mom lived there for awhile before she passed away.
-Didn't Lennox design the high school of the day too?
-yes
-The trees are gone and the street level has changed and the stonework along the sidewalk is gone.
-Visited many times. Friends of my Mom and Dads. Do not remember who. I never saw a noose.
-I delivered the Globe there for years.… nice old ladies...good tippers!!!
-it was not haunted I was there all the time, and believe me I would Know !! just saying
-Those were the rumours Georgetown full of them lol
-Was there a noose? I don't recall?
-yes there was---for yrs! It was hanging in the balcony on the peak on the left...looked every time I passed by
-was there in the early 80s while I was at GDHS.. walked by it all the time.
-Has anyone explained why...seems vaguely like something weird hanging down..ohh gives me the chills
-always wondered if it was just a wire that looked like one---dont remember a story to it
-I also delivered globe here in late 68. Along with Canada Trust, Stan’s restaurant, Mackenzie’s. Same route?
-we must have known each other. I either showed you the route or took over from you around that time. Do you remember the noose?
-Vaguely remember the noose. Took route over from one of the Smiths on Maple Ave. The year may have been 1967, or even 69. It is all very foggy.
-Lived at 29 Park Ave., for a while when we moved from John St. The house right across the road, (facing Park) is old too.
-the creepy house
-When I was a kid, I called this place "the castle".
-We were always told that it is haunted. When i was in high school, one of the teachers lived there, Miss Knocker, i shit you not. LOL.
-Miss McKay another teacher lived there as well.
-I had her as well for a teacher, didnt know she lived there.
-her and Miss knocker-Shared an apartment.
-Looks the same as it did 40 years ago when I lived next door
-My brother used to live there in the seventies and all I remember from there were the bats that used to be hanging just outside his door. There was always a broom just inside their apartment that his wife could swat at them with when she had to go out somewhere. Funny, the crap you remember, eh?
-Yes, between Berwick Hall, Knox Church, and the library seeing bats flapping overhead at night was not unusual, if you lived in that part of town.

9 Comments

<<Previous

Armstrong's Garage

Choi's

Carpet Barn

Kiyo's/ Harley's Garage

Dayfoot Shoe Factory

Queen Street Houses

Grandview House

Glen Oven

Baz Motors

Berwick Hall

Comments:

Archives

Categories