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Call Brian Tassell today and find out what good customer service is all about! 182 Northport Road Units 8 & 9, Port Perry 905-985-0059 www.rayhobbsgarage.aaro.ca "05. 985- 7873 Unparalleled Snow-Clearing Performance Snow Problem? No Problem ‘snow blower from Ariens. Packed with power and built to ae an Ariens ‘snow blower can quickly clear driveways and sidewalks with ease. Ariens has a full line of homeowner so whatever the winter weather Clear the way. 4179 eiimeae St. N., OS ENE just 10km south of Port Perry 905-655- 3291 e I- 800- 575-5656 (Ss 24 FOCUS - JANUARY 2013 O1.JANUARY. FINAL REVISED.indd 24 Continued from page 22 with hotel owners who often served up the beverage to minors and at hours not permitted by their license. Spurred on by vocal advocates of the temperance movement to close all drinking establishments, the Ontario Temperance Act was passed in 1916 to prohibit the sale of alcohol across the entire province. While the ‘act’ effectively slowed the flow of alcohol, as with any banned product, it opened up a lucrative business for smugglers, who ensured the flow of the banned product into Port Perry and Ontario. The current LCBO style store we are familiar with today was created in 1927, following the end of prohibition. At the same time, Brewers Retail stores were created to sell beer in a controlled manner, while wines and spirits were sold in LCBO outlets. But Port Perry was slow to embrace the sale of alcohol in the town and on at least four occasions over the next 30 years, the ‘drys’ succeeded in voting to keep the beverage from flowing back into the community. It wasn’t until 1957, when backed by the majority of local business owners, the battle to bring alcohol back to the town succeeded. The issue drew the largest number of voters to ever mark a ballot in the history of the town. With an overwhelming majority of 92 percent in favour, outlets for beer and liquor were approved. On June 13, 1958, less than seven months following the vote, the LCBO opened its first store in Port Perry at the corner of Queen and Perry Street, in the building now occupied by the Royal Bank building. Unlike the current self-serve method of shopping customers could not browse the products. All the liquor bottles were concealed on shelves behind the clerk’s counter. This method is similar to the current setup at Ontario's beer stores to this day. To purchase a bottle of liquor every person was required to fill out a “purchase form.” The information required included, the brand and volume of liquor requested, the date, a permit book number (if you had one), your street address, town name and a signature. When completed, the form was handed to the LCBO clerk, who checked it over for errors and accuracy, before disappearing into the back to fill the order. The first self-serve stores in Ontario, where customers did not have to rely on a clerk to retrieve alcohol were introduced in 1969. But in Port Perry, this cumbersome process continued at the LCBO’s Queen Street store until the summer of 1976, when the liquor outlet moved into their present location at the corner of Perry and Mary Streets. The Port Perry LCBO store is scheduled to open in its bright, large new store west of town about mid- February — coincidentally at a time when there is controversy brewing about the future privatization of liquor sales in the province. Only time will tell if the LCBO will also become a relic of the past, as have many other antiquated laws. By J. Peter Hvidsten Focus on Scugog 121247 8:40AM