-I haven’t been to the Main St in years. It is lovely. Memories! So many !
-Ur making me homesick
-lots of great memories good&bad.
-I remember when that was Barbers Travel and Insurance, a fabric and sewing store (I forget the name and owners), Sykes Bakery, HFC Finance, and Silver's.
-I remember those places to, don't forget Golden's fish & chips.
-It on the other side of the Street. It was next to Comfi Interiors and the TD Bank.
-Silver's and Fletcher's Shoes are another couple of great businesses that I missed when they closed!
-Can you verify that Mr. Fletcher has past away/died? Is the family still in Georgetown?
-Both Fletcher senior and son have passed away.
-Oh no, not the son too!? We were friends, the daughter I guarantee would remember me as I was with her when she fell and badly broke her forearm. The son (who's name escapes me) was only a year or two older than I am...what happened? Car accident?
-I am referring to Geoffrey the father and Ralph his son. You are thinking of Steve children and they are alive and well.
-In those days it was the store owner that greeted you!
-Joe's Tuck Shop ... Friday night was always shopping night downtown for mum and dad. Before heading back to Terra Cotta we got to pick a treat at Joe's and then mum and dad would slip in to the McGibbon for a beer while we waited in the car. Geez these days they would have been reported for child cruelty. lol
-Caruso's Green Grocer
-Enrico was a lovely man ... and a pretty good lawnbowler as well.
-Worked at Carusos as a teenager...Friday night was a very busy night for shopping.
-It was in the 1950s ..50 cent an hr. But a great experience.
-a shoe repair, McNamaras Jewellers, Caruso's, Butcher Shop, Henry's, , Stedmans, 5 and 10 run by the Wick's family, Caruso's, Butcher Shop, , Boughtons Jewellers, Barbers Jewellers, were in that block.
-Yup, Jacksons across the road from Stan's restaurant
-There was a candy shop (in my mind literally a shop!) a little further down on the same side that was run by an Eastern European woman who bore a 1940's concentration camp tattoo on her forearm (which was the focus of much wonderment until one of us gathered the courage to ask her what the tattoo was about.) Anybody recall the name of the shop? She had penny and nickle candies galore! :)
-Possibly Joe's Tuck Shop
-Possibly, but "Joe" was definitely a woman.
-Marg his wife was there all the time
-Marg was Eastern European? Polish/Ukrainian? W/tattoo? If so that's the place...between thrills gum, edible paper, and 'mint leaves' the place kept me and my pals hopping! Lol {sugar rush}
-Yes, that would have been Marg
-Really? I didn't know that about Marg.
-She didn't make any attempts to cover or hide the tattoo, but it was one of us kids who finally asked her about it. She didn't go into great detail if I recall and kind of left the impression that she felt privileged to sell candy to kids and spend her time in happiness rather than her past. She had a thick European accent, but spoke English perfectly. I don't recall her "Joe" though?
-Spent many hours in Stan's Restaurant
-So. Marg and Joe McCormack owned Joe's Tuck Shop, and Marg definately wasn't the little old ladyJewish lady with an accent!! Mom suggested she might have been the wife of the owner of |Cordero's chocolate shop??
-Would it have been Jeanett's Deli beside the Shoe Repair Shop??
-I'm really not sure.
-She was from Eastern Europe Had the shop for years.
-Concentration camp tattoo on her arm?
-I think there was a chocolate shop in what later became a shoe repair. It was right at the alley, then there was McNamaras, Carusos, was it Goldens Butchers. My memories are from the late 50's to the 80's.
-that;s right, richard, mom said it was in the alley. Mr cordero was italian, so maybe she was to?
-I would place the sweets shop circa 1982-84?
-Nope, we're talking about different shops. I was born in '71 and left Georgetown in '85 or 86? I would have attended the shop while going to grade school...so from '77 to '83/'84? And I am certain the woman wasn't Italian (there was an older Italian guy who owned a pizza shop who would give us kids onions from the kitchen...so as a kid my ear would recognize that accent,)...she was Eastern European.
-The butcher shop was Goldham's, owned by the father of Bob Goldham.
-Does anyone remember a little shop on James Street, just off Main that sold penny candy? I can't remember the name of it but my brother and I would spend our 10 cents allowance down there every Saturday. They gave you a little brown bag and let you fill it with your candy, trusting you would take only ten cents worth...and that actually filled that little bag right to the top. This would have been in the late 60's
-Ur making me homesick
-lots of great memories good&bad.
-I remember when that was Barbers Travel and Insurance, a fabric and sewing store (I forget the name and owners), Sykes Bakery, HFC Finance, and Silver's.
-I remember those places to, don't forget Golden's fish & chips.
-It on the other side of the Street. It was next to Comfi Interiors and the TD Bank.
-Silver's and Fletcher's Shoes are another couple of great businesses that I missed when they closed!
-Can you verify that Mr. Fletcher has past away/died? Is the family still in Georgetown?
-Both Fletcher senior and son have passed away.
-Oh no, not the son too!? We were friends, the daughter I guarantee would remember me as I was with her when she fell and badly broke her forearm. The son (who's name escapes me) was only a year or two older than I am...what happened? Car accident?
-I am referring to Geoffrey the father and Ralph his son. You are thinking of Steve children and they are alive and well.
-In those days it was the store owner that greeted you!
-Joe's Tuck Shop ... Friday night was always shopping night downtown for mum and dad. Before heading back to Terra Cotta we got to pick a treat at Joe's and then mum and dad would slip in to the McGibbon for a beer while we waited in the car. Geez these days they would have been reported for child cruelty. lol
-Caruso's Green Grocer
-Enrico was a lovely man ... and a pretty good lawnbowler as well.
-Worked at Carusos as a teenager...Friday night was a very busy night for shopping.
-It was in the 1950s ..50 cent an hr. But a great experience.
-a shoe repair, McNamaras Jewellers, Caruso's, Butcher Shop, Henry's, , Stedmans, 5 and 10 run by the Wick's family, Caruso's, Butcher Shop, , Boughtons Jewellers, Barbers Jewellers, were in that block.
-Yup, Jacksons across the road from Stan's restaurant
-There was a candy shop (in my mind literally a shop!) a little further down on the same side that was run by an Eastern European woman who bore a 1940's concentration camp tattoo on her forearm (which was the focus of much wonderment until one of us gathered the courage to ask her what the tattoo was about.) Anybody recall the name of the shop? She had penny and nickle candies galore! :)
-Possibly Joe's Tuck Shop
-Possibly, but "Joe" was definitely a woman.
-Marg his wife was there all the time
-Marg was Eastern European? Polish/Ukrainian? W/tattoo? If so that's the place...between thrills gum, edible paper, and 'mint leaves' the place kept me and my pals hopping! Lol {sugar rush}
-Yes, that would have been Marg
-Really? I didn't know that about Marg.
-She didn't make any attempts to cover or hide the tattoo, but it was one of us kids who finally asked her about it. She didn't go into great detail if I recall and kind of left the impression that she felt privileged to sell candy to kids and spend her time in happiness rather than her past. She had a thick European accent, but spoke English perfectly. I don't recall her "Joe" though?
-Spent many hours in Stan's Restaurant
-So. Marg and Joe McCormack owned Joe's Tuck Shop, and Marg definately wasn't the little old ladyJewish lady with an accent!! Mom suggested she might have been the wife of the owner of |Cordero's chocolate shop??
-Would it have been Jeanett's Deli beside the Shoe Repair Shop??
-I'm really not sure.
-She was from Eastern Europe Had the shop for years.
-Concentration camp tattoo on her arm?
-I think there was a chocolate shop in what later became a shoe repair. It was right at the alley, then there was McNamaras, Carusos, was it Goldens Butchers. My memories are from the late 50's to the 80's.
-that;s right, richard, mom said it was in the alley. Mr cordero was italian, so maybe she was to?
-I would place the sweets shop circa 1982-84?
-Nope, we're talking about different shops. I was born in '71 and left Georgetown in '85 or 86? I would have attended the shop while going to grade school...so from '77 to '83/'84? And I am certain the woman wasn't Italian (there was an older Italian guy who owned a pizza shop who would give us kids onions from the kitchen...so as a kid my ear would recognize that accent,)...she was Eastern European.
-The butcher shop was Goldham's, owned by the father of Bob Goldham.
-Does anyone remember a little shop on James Street, just off Main that sold penny candy? I can't remember the name of it but my brother and I would spend our 10 cents allowance down there every Saturday. They gave you a little brown bag and let you fill it with your candy, trusting you would take only ten cents worth...and that actually filled that little bag right to the top. This would have been in the late 60's
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