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-I miss that store
-I remember delivering milk there with Steen's Dairy!
-So many memories!!
-Sure are!
-Spent $7,000.00 Cnd there, $0.10 at a time on two stick popsicles in the summers.
-Oh, you are so right. The amount of candy we got there was crazy... Great childhood memories
-Right!? Banana popsicles...I still crave them in the summer.
-me too. Oh the penny candies were amazing. Liquorice babies, black balls, strawberry marshmallows... Sigh..
-Yes, yes, yes!!! The mint leaf gummies!
-Those were the days
-Every time I come home I drive past and always remember going there. Funny how these things stick
-Where is/was this - what street
-Corner of King and Union
-Near the train station.
-When I lived at 33 Durham Street I used to go there all the time!!
-I remember this store!
-My brother lives there now (y)
-our old hangout lol
-Would go there on Telegram Paper Collection day for my Ice Cream fix! Was owned by Marion and Norm Hill in those days.
-Mrs Hill was a good friend of my Mothers. She was a lovely knitter, and used to sit with her dog(s), knit & watch tv. Then she would get up and make them BOTH a raw onion sandwich and they would sit together and eat their sandwiches while watching the news! Never knew of another dog that ate raw onion sandwiches!
She also had a Siamese cat that would sit under my bedroom window and yowl in the middle of the night! 😖Almost ruined their friendship! 😂
-I used to go there on Telegram Paper Collection day to but to collect!!!!! Spent my collection money at Hunters.....
-Walker Cleave was the butcher there for years, use to talk hockey with him, now there was a character
-I remember when Walker delivered milk by the horse drawn wagon too !
-Jig's car snowed in.
-Goldish Cadillac?
-Right !! Omg the things you forget about and then.... there it is !! 💗💗
-My Mom used to send me there to get milk or bread or something but I would always take a detour down Union St to the Glassfords , They always had snacks and great storys from Joe Martin.
-Dear Hazel, she was always feeding us. Do you remember those big flat ginger cookies, that I think said Pantry on them? One of "grandpa' s" favourites. Think they were the only store bought ones in the house (oh, and the fig newtons in "the cookie drawer")She was a GREAT baker.....especially for "Grandpa Martin's" birthday parties on April 1st. Don Messer came one year and boy, was the place ever jumping! Grandpa was still playing the bones for his 105th birthday! Food enough for the whole town and then some! 😄
-Yes Hazel was a wonderful woman, I think her cooking kept her dad alive and kicking. He was a wonderful guy.
-He had oatmeal for breakfast, an hard boiled egg, bread & butter, and a dish of corn (or maple) syrup and of course the obligatory large glass of buttermilk generously sprinkled with salt and pepper for lunch, and "whatever was going" for dinner. Washed down with buttermilk naturally! 😄Hazel made the worlds best biscuits (sorry Mom) and brownies, and date squares, and .....now I'm getting hungry!
-I recall walking home from school and Hazel would call us over to come in for cookies :)
-Remember the funny way she would roll down her stockings to her ankles. Never could figure that one out. Forerunner of anklettes I guess.
-Yup! Poor Hazel, they never had any kids of their own, so she kind of adopted us. We LOVED it when she would babysit us after school as she'd feed us like mad, send a tin plate of "extras" home with us, and then we'd have to "worry down" our dinner and pretend we WEREN'T stuffed to the gills from all those desserts at Hazel's!😂.
-always a package of fig newtons in the drawer. First place I ever had them.
-I remember Joe liked them, munched them down at the sun room of their cottage.
-Walker had a voice like a foghorn but a heart as big as all outdoors. (They both did.). One Sunday morning the people behind their house's dog started barking and wouldn't stop. Walker went out in his shorts, undershirt and slippers and yelled loud enough for the whole town to hear..... "Shut up you silly bugger!" I thought we would die we laughed so hard. (The only time my Mother couldn't pretend to be horrified). Anyone who W was annoyed at for whatever reason was "a silly bugger"
-Funny that we always called him George but Hazel always called him Walker. Funny what you forget until someone points it out.
-I lived on Union St. They were adorable . If at one derseved kids . They did. They were the best.
-My Mom said "they married too late in life to have kids". Grandpa was their family. Even when he was over 100 yrs old he still had a handshake like a vice grip😄
-I remember that. It was when I first moved to Georgetown.
-I think they were the only adults we were ever allowed to call by their first names. Walker and Hazel.... didn't seem right to walk by their house and they weren't there. I can still hear Walker yelling "Haze, come here a minute! Haze! Bring me my screwdriver, Haze, bring me my hammer, Haze come and hold the ladder a minute!" and little Hazel would come running with whatever he needed. 🙂
-LOL. She was a tiny wee thing indeed with a huge heart.
-He was always changing something in that house! I remember when he changed the basement stairs reminding H not to go anywhere near every five minutes (as the steps weren't in yet, it was just an huge empty hole). Not ten minutes later didn't HE forget and go crashing to the basement floor! Poor Hazel called my Mom in a panic, but were were all too little to lift him so they called an ambulance. Poor Walker. I THINK that was about the time they discovered his diabetes -from all Hazel's desserts my Mom said. 😉
-Heaven is where they at now.
-Oh remember the house beside them at the corner? It had it"s o little shed?
-And I bet Hazel is baking up a storm for all those little kids up there!
-Did you live on Union St?
-That was the house I grew up in, and it wasn't a little shed in the backyard, it was a fair sized building (the former boiler house for their green houses) which they turned into my Mother's Antique Shop. (maybe that was before your time). I bet Rob (and Randy) remember the huge chimney and all the birds that used to fly in an enormous circle and dive straight in at dusk in the summer. I was kind of disappointed I wasn't there to see it come down, bet it was spectacular! But then it might have made me too sad to think of all those birds without a home. Wonder where they all went? (Maybe over to Hazel's).
-I remember that huge chimney. Oh my gosh.
-Oh it has just clicked. Mr. Barber owned the corner house on Union house.
-I am very interested to hear of your history.
-Yes, that was our house, but the front door faced King Street, so it was 9 King Street. The Shop was technically on Union Street, but it didn't have its own address. Walker and Hazel's house was 9 Union Street, right behind the shop. (Irene and I built a tree house in the tree right behind the back door of the shop that leaned over to the grass by their driveway). My parents had 35 acres of greenhouses and gardens (Barber Floral Co. must google it and see if anything comes up). When they were dismantled they sold most of the land for people to build their houses on. Walker and Hazel bought the property right behind the shop (Union Street) and Cec and Marion McNamara were next door on King Street.
-Great. Thank You s much for the history.
-Actually my oldest sister Mary should! She lived through most of that - she was born 19 days (think their anniversary was the 21st, I forget) before their first anniversary so she lived that! (She was 4 (?) when my Father went to war in England and he was gone for 5 years, so he was a complete stranger when he got back, like a lots of kids & Fathers then, sadly).
-Used to walk there all the time, back in the day when our parents would send us to the store with a note to pick up their smokes lol
-Cool!! Ive lived on Albert my entire life and didnt know it was a store. Always wondered what it was... was born 92 😂😂
-I worked there as a kid delivering groceries for Mrs Rawson when she owned the store , and who remembers the pet monkey 🐒in the basement ?
-Delivered groceries in the winter by sleigh and used my wagon in the summer !
-I works there also .Stocked shelves and delivered groceries by bicycle with a paper carried, and then the blue 50 Ford when I turned 16.
-I do! We had to go by it to do laundry when we lived there. I always thought it would reach out of the cage and bite me!! That was when the Hills ran the store.
-Funny I don't remember the pet monkey, but do you remember the fish tanks in the store window? (Think my Mother would "take a dim view" of the monkey, so don't think we were ever allowed to see it)🙁
-The monkey belonged to Mary Rawson
-Mary must have inherited the monkey when Rawson's took over the store as it was there when Norm and Marion owned the business!
-Don't remember a Mary, was that Lena's Mother or daughter?
-could be , I just remember it in the basement and Mary saying it was hers !
-Thanks for solving the mystery. Funny don't remember her.
-yes Mrs Hill had it before and likely Mary took ownership :)
-delivered groceries as well from there when Mrs Rawson oned it, also had many a raw wiener from Walker Cleave the butcher
-Walker was a great guy , had a heart of gold !
-Remember the garage full of empty pop bottles? (And one day my Mother looked out the window to see Robert B "draining the dregs" She got on the phone to his Mother and I bet Mrs B was there in two minutes flat, dragging him home by the ear!😂). (Apologies Robert if you can see this.). Bet Irene's laughing if she's reading this.
-Loved watching Walker make hamburger, and was fascinated by the "smoke" coming out of that huge walk in "meat room". The Mac & cheese, pimento, ham, and roast beef sliced meats, custom sliced to the requested thickness.....
-my Mom owned that store in the 80's, Esther Browne, sadly she passed away at 53
-She was the best.
-I think I remember your Mom. Didn't your Dad babysit your brother there? Cute little blonde guy and VERY smart for his age. THINK that was maybe when she was in hospital having you, and then didn't she have breast cancer? Felt so sorry for your Dad having to "mind the store" look after him, do everything at home too and go visit her when he had the chance.
-no my parents were divorced and I don't have a brother
-Oh, then was that the couple before or after your Mom had it?
-THINK it must have been after as I was home a lot helping my Dad before (and after) my Mom died (1988!). Bless Ann McNiven. She was a real Godsend. She kept an eye out for him every morning and they had a "system". If he didn't get up and open the kitchen curtains (that faced her place) by 11am she would be on the phone to Mary worried that something was wrong. She certainly saved us a lot of anxious moments! We knew he was in good hands with Ann watching over him. ❤️
-I friggin loved having that store across the road from where I lived! 47 King, a cold 6 pack of mini Coca Cola in the fridge was the best. Also $165.00 a month for rent. The station House was A few doors down. Occasionally! 1976 + ish🤗
-I lived at hilltop apt for a yr in 62. I can’t remember if it was Kings. But it was a store. 😁
-it was likely Hills at that time perhaps :)
-Did you live in that huge stone apt on the corner, beside the little house Bob Ballantine live(d/s) in? My parents lived there the first few years after they were married, it was part of the greenhouse property, and my paternal grandparents lived in the green house (with the porch with all the windows) down King Street which I think the Sr Ledwidges lived in later. My Mother had the greenhouse office building completely gutted internally, designed an entirely new interior (done by Sam McKenzie & Co) and it became the house I grew up in. (That, BTW Bob B and Don etc was why we had such a funny basement.).😄
-No , it was kitty corner to the store,
-my Mom lived at 47 King right after my cousin lived there. My Mom owed the store for a few yrs, from 1984 to 1987 is
-I really loved that place!
-In the early 1900s my great grandfather John Langan owned this yellow house. At one time 12 people lived together until other homes were ready. John Langan was from Sligo Ireland. Anyone ever see ghosts here?
-47 King, trying to place that. I wasn't home a lot when my kids were small, (I was in Ottawa by 1972) more when my Mom got seriously sick.
-I remember your mom blowing the whistle , when she wanted you home !
-🤣🤣🤣knew you would! You could hear that thing for a mile, I swear, and all the kids knew "the signals" 2 "tweets" for Heather (she was the 2nd daughter) and 3 for me. We could be playing in Timbucktoo (sp) 🙄 and whoever we were with would say "Heather/Phyllis your Mom wants you" depending on the number of blasts. Nope, no chance of ignoring it! Many years later it was still hanging by the back door so I asked if I could have it for my kids - same thing, 1 for J, 2 for C, 3 for K......😄. Great for at the cottage too as the sound travelled all over the lake! Wonder where it is now. (It was a Scout Whistle. Pretty sure you can still buy them.)
INSPIRATION‼️. I'm going to the Scout shop here and buy one for Kim. Soon my grandchildren will be old enough to go to the park up the street by themselves. (May not be one of their favourite presents from Grandma when they figure it out🤣). Brilliant idea, Mom. No standing at the door yelling our names and hoping we'd hear. I swear you could hear it at the cemetery!
-it was a great neighbourhood to grow up in ! So many great neighbours and super people left us with the great memories we’ll always have ! We were and are extremely lucky 🍀!
-Yes, that's for sure. Bless Facebook. So happy to be able to re-connect
-Oh wow. My grandpa would take us there all the time.
-Wow what a memory used to go there all the time....
-up the street---the things a quarter would buy!!!
-Would be great if this store was still there.
-Was babysitting 2 children we walked there and bought Toronto Sun newspaper when Elvis Presley died.
-I worked there !
-My brother, Garry and his ex Ella ran it for a couple of years.
-Was that the young couple with the little boy I was referring to?
-Possibly. Their son was Nicholas (he was blonde)
-About 3 yrs old, really bright little guy. I have him an atlas as he loved maps or something like that. His father used to sit him up on the big old "pop cooler" and he would look in the atlas. Boy, that must have been around 87/90.
-My Uncle Herb Ford owned that store at a point.
-OMG ! I forgot about that !!!
-Stopped in there a lot when living on Queen St. in the 70's
-We lived in the middle house 47 King across the street was the store'
-47 King was the home of my Great grandfather John Langan. Born in Sligo Ireland. Died in Georgetown at over 90 yrs old. At one time there were 12 people living in this lovely home. I still admire it when passing. 😊 Thx for sharing. One of his daughters taught school at Chapel Street. Miss May Langan.
-Was that the old Mr Ballantine Sr's house, between Bob B and the Bouskills? (I presume the #47 was the number after they renumbered them) THINK my parents' house was 35 or 39. Would have to ask Mary or Irene.
-Could have Phyllis we moved out when GO was built late 60s.I am Dorothy Mc Donald's son in law
-Dutchloaf....
-Yes, quite often stopped for luncheon meat and that was a favourite :)
-loved Dutchloaf hard to find. Schneider's
-I think we called it Mrs. Hills when we were growing up. 1950-60;s
-Yes we did.
-Omgggg remember I use to go to this store all the time ... loved buying pennie candies .
-I even remember that old car always parked there .
-Worked there in 1974
-Sorted pop bottles there in the 80's for pop, chips and smokes!
-We used to stop there walking to the pool at the high school!! 1 cent candy
-My favourite store as a kid.
-squeaky old hardwood floors, penny candy paradise, taking a note from my mom to buy her smokes - the good old days.
-Haha the notes. Forgot about them. 😁
-Ok. Who remembers the funny ice cream "rolls". You had to take off the paper to put it on a cone. Butterscotch "spider", vanilla.....anyone remember any other flavours?
-Chocolate and Strawberry...and the little cups of icecream with the wooden spoon :)
-I think they were called mallow rolls. Rita maws used to have them too.
-Dixie Cups !
-Me. Loved the chocolate 😋
-Strawberry
-I loved the chocolate rolls and the fudgicles. 5 cents!
-cheap smokes lol
-Loved the mallow rolls! Lived above Hills store for about 7 or 8years beside Jill and her family...great memories 😍
-my first home was above that store and Grandma McNiven, Aunty Gayle, Uncle Norman, and Uncle Wayne STILL live there....I'd almost forgotten about the Monkey....Marianne Hill - feisty gal...slapped my ass more than once...lmfao
-And probably was deserved.lol. I was afraid of her when I was kid.lol
-WAs Rawsons Store before that.
-so was I! I was even nervous to play in the backyard.
-Looks like it did in the 60's when I used to go there as kid on our way home from the train station. We used to take the train to Toronto to visit mom's family and would get a penny candy for the walk home :)
-My grandma uncle Wayne aunt Gail uncle Norman all still live there
-I worked there in the mid 70's
-I remember delivering milk there with Steen's Dairy!
-So many memories!!
-Sure are!
-Spent $7,000.00 Cnd there, $0.10 at a time on two stick popsicles in the summers.
-Oh, you are so right. The amount of candy we got there was crazy... Great childhood memories
-Right!? Banana popsicles...I still crave them in the summer.
-me too. Oh the penny candies were amazing. Liquorice babies, black balls, strawberry marshmallows... Sigh..
-Yes, yes, yes!!! The mint leaf gummies!
-Those were the days
-Every time I come home I drive past and always remember going there. Funny how these things stick
-Where is/was this - what street
-Corner of King and Union
-Near the train station.
-When I lived at 33 Durham Street I used to go there all the time!!
-I remember this store!
-My brother lives there now (y)
-our old hangout lol
-Would go there on Telegram Paper Collection day for my Ice Cream fix! Was owned by Marion and Norm Hill in those days.
-Mrs Hill was a good friend of my Mothers. She was a lovely knitter, and used to sit with her dog(s), knit & watch tv. Then she would get up and make them BOTH a raw onion sandwich and they would sit together and eat their sandwiches while watching the news! Never knew of another dog that ate raw onion sandwiches!
She also had a Siamese cat that would sit under my bedroom window and yowl in the middle of the night! 😖Almost ruined their friendship! 😂
-I used to go there on Telegram Paper Collection day to but to collect!!!!! Spent my collection money at Hunters.....
-Walker Cleave was the butcher there for years, use to talk hockey with him, now there was a character
-I remember when Walker delivered milk by the horse drawn wagon too !
-Jig's car snowed in.
-Goldish Cadillac?
-Right !! Omg the things you forget about and then.... there it is !! 💗💗
-My Mom used to send me there to get milk or bread or something but I would always take a detour down Union St to the Glassfords , They always had snacks and great storys from Joe Martin.
-Dear Hazel, she was always feeding us. Do you remember those big flat ginger cookies, that I think said Pantry on them? One of "grandpa' s" favourites. Think they were the only store bought ones in the house (oh, and the fig newtons in "the cookie drawer")She was a GREAT baker.....especially for "Grandpa Martin's" birthday parties on April 1st. Don Messer came one year and boy, was the place ever jumping! Grandpa was still playing the bones for his 105th birthday! Food enough for the whole town and then some! 😄
-Yes Hazel was a wonderful woman, I think her cooking kept her dad alive and kicking. He was a wonderful guy.
-He had oatmeal for breakfast, an hard boiled egg, bread & butter, and a dish of corn (or maple) syrup and of course the obligatory large glass of buttermilk generously sprinkled with salt and pepper for lunch, and "whatever was going" for dinner. Washed down with buttermilk naturally! 😄Hazel made the worlds best biscuits (sorry Mom) and brownies, and date squares, and .....now I'm getting hungry!
-I recall walking home from school and Hazel would call us over to come in for cookies :)
-Remember the funny way she would roll down her stockings to her ankles. Never could figure that one out. Forerunner of anklettes I guess.
-Yup! Poor Hazel, they never had any kids of their own, so she kind of adopted us. We LOVED it when she would babysit us after school as she'd feed us like mad, send a tin plate of "extras" home with us, and then we'd have to "worry down" our dinner and pretend we WEREN'T stuffed to the gills from all those desserts at Hazel's!😂.
-always a package of fig newtons in the drawer. First place I ever had them.
-I remember Joe liked them, munched them down at the sun room of their cottage.
-Walker had a voice like a foghorn but a heart as big as all outdoors. (They both did.). One Sunday morning the people behind their house's dog started barking and wouldn't stop. Walker went out in his shorts, undershirt and slippers and yelled loud enough for the whole town to hear..... "Shut up you silly bugger!" I thought we would die we laughed so hard. (The only time my Mother couldn't pretend to be horrified). Anyone who W was annoyed at for whatever reason was "a silly bugger"
-Funny that we always called him George but Hazel always called him Walker. Funny what you forget until someone points it out.
-I lived on Union St. They were adorable . If at one derseved kids . They did. They were the best.
-My Mom said "they married too late in life to have kids". Grandpa was their family. Even when he was over 100 yrs old he still had a handshake like a vice grip😄
-I remember that. It was when I first moved to Georgetown.
-I think they were the only adults we were ever allowed to call by their first names. Walker and Hazel.... didn't seem right to walk by their house and they weren't there. I can still hear Walker yelling "Haze, come here a minute! Haze! Bring me my screwdriver, Haze, bring me my hammer, Haze come and hold the ladder a minute!" and little Hazel would come running with whatever he needed. 🙂
-LOL. She was a tiny wee thing indeed with a huge heart.
-He was always changing something in that house! I remember when he changed the basement stairs reminding H not to go anywhere near every five minutes (as the steps weren't in yet, it was just an huge empty hole). Not ten minutes later didn't HE forget and go crashing to the basement floor! Poor Hazel called my Mom in a panic, but were were all too little to lift him so they called an ambulance. Poor Walker. I THINK that was about the time they discovered his diabetes -from all Hazel's desserts my Mom said. 😉
-Heaven is where they at now.
-Oh remember the house beside them at the corner? It had it"s o little shed?
-And I bet Hazel is baking up a storm for all those little kids up there!
-Did you live on Union St?
-That was the house I grew up in, and it wasn't a little shed in the backyard, it was a fair sized building (the former boiler house for their green houses) which they turned into my Mother's Antique Shop. (maybe that was before your time). I bet Rob (and Randy) remember the huge chimney and all the birds that used to fly in an enormous circle and dive straight in at dusk in the summer. I was kind of disappointed I wasn't there to see it come down, bet it was spectacular! But then it might have made me too sad to think of all those birds without a home. Wonder where they all went? (Maybe over to Hazel's).
-I remember that huge chimney. Oh my gosh.
-Oh it has just clicked. Mr. Barber owned the corner house on Union house.
-I am very interested to hear of your history.
-Yes, that was our house, but the front door faced King Street, so it was 9 King Street. The Shop was technically on Union Street, but it didn't have its own address. Walker and Hazel's house was 9 Union Street, right behind the shop. (Irene and I built a tree house in the tree right behind the back door of the shop that leaned over to the grass by their driveway). My parents had 35 acres of greenhouses and gardens (Barber Floral Co. must google it and see if anything comes up). When they were dismantled they sold most of the land for people to build their houses on. Walker and Hazel bought the property right behind the shop (Union Street) and Cec and Marion McNamara were next door on King Street.
-Great. Thank You s much for the history.
-Actually my oldest sister Mary should! She lived through most of that - she was born 19 days (think their anniversary was the 21st, I forget) before their first anniversary so she lived that! (She was 4 (?) when my Father went to war in England and he was gone for 5 years, so he was a complete stranger when he got back, like a lots of kids & Fathers then, sadly).
-Used to walk there all the time, back in the day when our parents would send us to the store with a note to pick up their smokes lol
-Cool!! Ive lived on Albert my entire life and didnt know it was a store. Always wondered what it was... was born 92 😂😂
-I worked there as a kid delivering groceries for Mrs Rawson when she owned the store , and who remembers the pet monkey 🐒in the basement ?
-Delivered groceries in the winter by sleigh and used my wagon in the summer !
-I works there also .Stocked shelves and delivered groceries by bicycle with a paper carried, and then the blue 50 Ford when I turned 16.
-I do! We had to go by it to do laundry when we lived there. I always thought it would reach out of the cage and bite me!! That was when the Hills ran the store.
-Funny I don't remember the pet monkey, but do you remember the fish tanks in the store window? (Think my Mother would "take a dim view" of the monkey, so don't think we were ever allowed to see it)🙁
-The monkey belonged to Mary Rawson
-Mary must have inherited the monkey when Rawson's took over the store as it was there when Norm and Marion owned the business!
-Don't remember a Mary, was that Lena's Mother or daughter?
-could be , I just remember it in the basement and Mary saying it was hers !
-Thanks for solving the mystery. Funny don't remember her.
-yes Mrs Hill had it before and likely Mary took ownership :)
-delivered groceries as well from there when Mrs Rawson oned it, also had many a raw wiener from Walker Cleave the butcher
-Walker was a great guy , had a heart of gold !
-Remember the garage full of empty pop bottles? (And one day my Mother looked out the window to see Robert B "draining the dregs" She got on the phone to his Mother and I bet Mrs B was there in two minutes flat, dragging him home by the ear!😂). (Apologies Robert if you can see this.). Bet Irene's laughing if she's reading this.
-Loved watching Walker make hamburger, and was fascinated by the "smoke" coming out of that huge walk in "meat room". The Mac & cheese, pimento, ham, and roast beef sliced meats, custom sliced to the requested thickness.....
-my Mom owned that store in the 80's, Esther Browne, sadly she passed away at 53
-She was the best.
-I think I remember your Mom. Didn't your Dad babysit your brother there? Cute little blonde guy and VERY smart for his age. THINK that was maybe when she was in hospital having you, and then didn't she have breast cancer? Felt so sorry for your Dad having to "mind the store" look after him, do everything at home too and go visit her when he had the chance.
-no my parents were divorced and I don't have a brother
-Oh, then was that the couple before or after your Mom had it?
-THINK it must have been after as I was home a lot helping my Dad before (and after) my Mom died (1988!). Bless Ann McNiven. She was a real Godsend. She kept an eye out for him every morning and they had a "system". If he didn't get up and open the kitchen curtains (that faced her place) by 11am she would be on the phone to Mary worried that something was wrong. She certainly saved us a lot of anxious moments! We knew he was in good hands with Ann watching over him. ❤️
-I friggin loved having that store across the road from where I lived! 47 King, a cold 6 pack of mini Coca Cola in the fridge was the best. Also $165.00 a month for rent. The station House was A few doors down. Occasionally! 1976 + ish🤗
-I lived at hilltop apt for a yr in 62. I can’t remember if it was Kings. But it was a store. 😁
-it was likely Hills at that time perhaps :)
-Did you live in that huge stone apt on the corner, beside the little house Bob Ballantine live(d/s) in? My parents lived there the first few years after they were married, it was part of the greenhouse property, and my paternal grandparents lived in the green house (with the porch with all the windows) down King Street which I think the Sr Ledwidges lived in later. My Mother had the greenhouse office building completely gutted internally, designed an entirely new interior (done by Sam McKenzie & Co) and it became the house I grew up in. (That, BTW Bob B and Don etc was why we had such a funny basement.).😄
-No , it was kitty corner to the store,
-my Mom lived at 47 King right after my cousin lived there. My Mom owed the store for a few yrs, from 1984 to 1987 is
-I really loved that place!
-In the early 1900s my great grandfather John Langan owned this yellow house. At one time 12 people lived together until other homes were ready. John Langan was from Sligo Ireland. Anyone ever see ghosts here?
-47 King, trying to place that. I wasn't home a lot when my kids were small, (I was in Ottawa by 1972) more when my Mom got seriously sick.
-I remember your mom blowing the whistle , when she wanted you home !
-🤣🤣🤣knew you would! You could hear that thing for a mile, I swear, and all the kids knew "the signals" 2 "tweets" for Heather (she was the 2nd daughter) and 3 for me. We could be playing in Timbucktoo (sp) 🙄 and whoever we were with would say "Heather/Phyllis your Mom wants you" depending on the number of blasts. Nope, no chance of ignoring it! Many years later it was still hanging by the back door so I asked if I could have it for my kids - same thing, 1 for J, 2 for C, 3 for K......😄. Great for at the cottage too as the sound travelled all over the lake! Wonder where it is now. (It was a Scout Whistle. Pretty sure you can still buy them.)
INSPIRATION‼️. I'm going to the Scout shop here and buy one for Kim. Soon my grandchildren will be old enough to go to the park up the street by themselves. (May not be one of their favourite presents from Grandma when they figure it out🤣). Brilliant idea, Mom. No standing at the door yelling our names and hoping we'd hear. I swear you could hear it at the cemetery!
-it was a great neighbourhood to grow up in ! So many great neighbours and super people left us with the great memories we’ll always have ! We were and are extremely lucky 🍀!
-Yes, that's for sure. Bless Facebook. So happy to be able to re-connect
-Oh wow. My grandpa would take us there all the time.
-Wow what a memory used to go there all the time....
-up the street---the things a quarter would buy!!!
-Would be great if this store was still there.
-Was babysitting 2 children we walked there and bought Toronto Sun newspaper when Elvis Presley died.
-I worked there !
-My brother, Garry and his ex Ella ran it for a couple of years.
-Was that the young couple with the little boy I was referring to?
-Possibly. Their son was Nicholas (he was blonde)
-About 3 yrs old, really bright little guy. I have him an atlas as he loved maps or something like that. His father used to sit him up on the big old "pop cooler" and he would look in the atlas. Boy, that must have been around 87/90.
-My Uncle Herb Ford owned that store at a point.
-OMG ! I forgot about that !!!
-Stopped in there a lot when living on Queen St. in the 70's
-We lived in the middle house 47 King across the street was the store'
-47 King was the home of my Great grandfather John Langan. Born in Sligo Ireland. Died in Georgetown at over 90 yrs old. At one time there were 12 people living in this lovely home. I still admire it when passing. 😊 Thx for sharing. One of his daughters taught school at Chapel Street. Miss May Langan.
-Was that the old Mr Ballantine Sr's house, between Bob B and the Bouskills? (I presume the #47 was the number after they renumbered them) THINK my parents' house was 35 or 39. Would have to ask Mary or Irene.
-Could have Phyllis we moved out when GO was built late 60s.I am Dorothy Mc Donald's son in law
-Dutchloaf....
-Yes, quite often stopped for luncheon meat and that was a favourite :)
-loved Dutchloaf hard to find. Schneider's
-I think we called it Mrs. Hills when we were growing up. 1950-60;s
-Yes we did.
-Omgggg remember I use to go to this store all the time ... loved buying pennie candies .
-I even remember that old car always parked there .
-Worked there in 1974
-Sorted pop bottles there in the 80's for pop, chips and smokes!
-We used to stop there walking to the pool at the high school!! 1 cent candy
-My favourite store as a kid.
-squeaky old hardwood floors, penny candy paradise, taking a note from my mom to buy her smokes - the good old days.
-Haha the notes. Forgot about them. 😁
-Ok. Who remembers the funny ice cream "rolls". You had to take off the paper to put it on a cone. Butterscotch "spider", vanilla.....anyone remember any other flavours?
-Chocolate and Strawberry...and the little cups of icecream with the wooden spoon :)
-I think they were called mallow rolls. Rita maws used to have them too.
-Dixie Cups !
-Me. Loved the chocolate 😋
-Strawberry
-I loved the chocolate rolls and the fudgicles. 5 cents!
-cheap smokes lol
-Loved the mallow rolls! Lived above Hills store for about 7 or 8years beside Jill and her family...great memories 😍
-my first home was above that store and Grandma McNiven, Aunty Gayle, Uncle Norman, and Uncle Wayne STILL live there....I'd almost forgotten about the Monkey....Marianne Hill - feisty gal...slapped my ass more than once...lmfao
-And probably was deserved.lol. I was afraid of her when I was kid.lol
-WAs Rawsons Store before that.
-so was I! I was even nervous to play in the backyard.
-Looks like it did in the 60's when I used to go there as kid on our way home from the train station. We used to take the train to Toronto to visit mom's family and would get a penny candy for the walk home :)
-My grandma uncle Wayne aunt Gail uncle Norman all still live there
-I worked there in the mid 70's
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