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6 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, May 12, 1976 Section Two Front St by Frank Jamieson My mind is filled with sheerest joy when, in my thoughts, I go Wandering down the small Front Street I liked those years ago. What fun to see each smiling face, to hear each fond hello, To walk the Front Street once again I came to like and know! I thought maybe you would like to take a walk down Bowmanville's Front Street with me "when we were boys ? years ago." Let's start on the south side at the West End Garage of Cryderman & Boys, Ltd. Next, let's drop into Spud Wilcox' for a game of Pool - We must call into AI Williams' to see if anyone we know has died - The street seems to be quiet. There are a few travellers staying in The Bowman House hotel for the night. My! they have such large chairs in the lounge where you can sit or go to sleep for a few minutes - Jack Cole can surely cut hair fast and boy! look at him shave that man - he's still shaking from the speedy ordeal - and not a cut on his face - Hi, Dick (Rosen), how is the shoe business? - Jim Bennett is still doing business in his quiet way - Couch, Johnston & Cryder- man sure have a big store (or is it two?) - on one side, everything for ladies and on the other, for men. "Good morning, Laurie." Lola Down makes hats in her crowded corner at the back and friendly Avery is ably assisted by Elizabeth Painton and Millie Mason . - Jack Horne, the Jeweller, is at his work bench. Did you see Jack's car? He bought a small one-seater, painted red as a fire truck - Frank Kerslake keeps a neat, clean Drug Store next door - Mrs. Bagnell is always busy selling candy over the counter and serving goodies in her Ice Cream Parlor - The Haddy Company are Milliners and have beautiful hats for every occasion - Mrs. Edith V. Scobell is sure "all business", but very pleasant as she sells Insur- ance - Let's go into the Big 20 Store, browse around and talk to Belle and Wes Allen - C.M. Cawker and son, Wes, have a butcher store - that's where Billie Found makes good Headcheese on a small, round stove at the back and customers hurry to buy scald cream to put on their Sunday pie - Dolph Nicholls' big variety store is such an interesting place with so much to see; Muriel Chartran clerks here - Jury & Lovell's Drug Store has Ross Stutt as the Man- ager - And Archie Tate has that big Grocery Store with Eloise Thickson helping him - Harry and Charlie Rice keep everything in their Hardware Store and Andy McSorley, the Tinsmither, puts stove pipes together upstairs - Rod Mitchell operates the Drug Store next to the Royal Bank on the corner - Ed Summers is the Agricul- tural Representative on the south-east corner which used to be the Standard Bank - Next, S.W. Mason & Sons keep a well-stocked Dry Goods store - And then is Dustan's Hard- ware store, ready to serve your household and barn needs - A tidy shoe store is run by Fred Knox, assisted by bis wife - Upstairs, W.F. Ward has his Law Office - Several girls are employed as switchboard operators in the small Bell Telephone Office next door where Frank Williams is the Manager - Sid Chartran sells good quality Men's Wear - Tommy Knight operates a Grocery Store witb brothers Perc and Jimn Williams and "Denny" Densem clerking - jext door is Christie's Ba :y where you will find Agnes Christie behind the counter - The dentist, Dr. Bonny- castle, looks after you r tooth- ache upstairs - Fred Nelles operates a Groce-' Store assisted by Ernie La1nn and Vi White - There's Ab barch's Tobacco Sbop - And Clarence Mason waits for ladies to patronize his Dress Shoppe - Everybody knows where F.F. Morris Funeral Chapel and Furniture Store is - Alex Edmondson is the Butcher - look at the big chopping board and sawdust on the floor - Billie Berry runs the Book Store next door - notice how he rocks back and forth on his feet, with his arms folded, where earlier P.C. Trebilcock sold school books - Bert Parker's Tinsmithing shop isnext - Martyn's Bowling Alley is such a busy place for bowlers - Percy Corbett bas the Bake Shop and Ice Cream Parlor on the corner which used to be Tod's Bakery. His homemade humbugs and Ganong choc- olates are so good. Mäude treet Recol Otton and Anne Connors are full-time clerks. Harry Allin's Corner Gro- cery store bas been there a long time, with the barrels of fish outside on the street, a great temptation to al] dogs. His clerks are son, Lorne, along with Bar and Mickey Dilling - In a little shop around the corner, George Crombie re- pairs watches andelocks - Down across from the High School is Holgate's Coal & Lumber Company - Now, walking east on King, we see Herbie Babcock's Shoe Store - Herbie always puts shutters over the windows. at night - And J.T. Mollon is kept busy with his Tailoring business along here - Leo Greenaway and Len Elliott are kept busy with their Plumbing work - Then, the Bickell men run a Trucking business here - A big, lack, wooden sign the shape of a shoe, with gold trim, hangs here to tell all that Geordie Humpage repairs shoes - Charlie's little novelty store is along here somewhere, can you see it? - Wes Knight's Livery and Freight Delivery business keeps very busy these days - Down àt the corner of King and Ontario, who could forget Nanny Key's Corner Grocery where all the kids go for their penny candy - Across the street on the north side of King, Fred Ratcliffe has his Machine Shop - Many a good time we've enjoyed skating to the three- or-four-man band at Taylor's Rink - Down the street, you'll find Wreford Souch is the Optician And Charlie Bartlett bas a Garage at Cupid's Lane cor- ner - Farther east at Liberty is Banner Furber's Garage, where Saturday night dances are held upstairs - Back up the hill at the corner of King and George is the McClellan & Co. Lumber, later Sheppard & GUi - The old Badminton Club is a popular place - And you can catch a bus to Oshawa at Garton's Bus Station next to the Balmoral Hotel at the corner of King and Division - Across the corner is Pat- tenick's Clothing store - Around the corner on Division Street, E.S. Naylor repairs shoes next to J.B. Martyn's Feed Store which is always busy - Jim Infantine's Fruit Store, with his nephew, Phil Cancil- la, helping him, is such a friendly place. Jim, his wife Rosie, and Phil live in the square brick house between J.B. Martyn's and the Thom- son Knitting Factory, located on the south-west corner of Church and Division - Next to the Fruit Store, you'Il find the Dingman Sis- ters are Milliners and offer the latest in fashion - Claude Ives bas the next Shoe Store and is friendly to everyone - Mason & Dale Hardware is next door - And across the laneway is Jack Miller's Barbershop - J.J. Mason and his son Charlie keep busy with their Insurance and Real Estate - Upstairs Dr. Devitt, the dentist, tries not to hurt you - Then, Bill Challis operates his Garage and Motor Sales Office - Peter Lambros and his staff invite you into the Restaurant for a meal or snack - The Maher Shoe Store is located next door - With the Dominion Store on the corner, I am lucky to have a job here on Saturdays, being paid $2.00 for a long day. The manager is Gilbert Jones and the clerks are Ruby With- eridge, Philip Grant and myself - and you know, we really could use roller skates as we rush back and forth behind the counter serving customers- Our solidly built Post Office stands on the opposite corner with entrance doors at the front and side, and the Customs Office upstairs. You meet everybody here as they pick up their mail either at the General Delivery wicket or private box - Mr. J.A. McClellan is the Manager of the huge Bank of Montreal, with living quarters upstairs -the iron fence railing is a great place to sit on and watch the world go by- The Hydro Shop is next, where the light and water bils are paid - Lawrence Mason practises Law in his office - Hui's Restaurant is a pop- ular place with Tom and Sing his faithful helpers - On Saturday afternoons, the Royal Theatre is crowded with excited kids as they watch the matinee run by Tommy Task- er, then Tommy Ross - You can 'always smell the clean washings at Lee's Laundry as we walk by the wooden frame shop - On the corner of King and Silver, William Jeffrey bas his Tailoring business - Across the road is Markus Myer's corner, the man who repairs harness, etc. - Sam Henry's implement business is at the rear of Myer's on Silver Street lections And L.R. Wood's implement business is next to Myer's to the west - Upstairs, G.N. Thurston carries on his Furrier bus- iness HalInman's Glove & Mitt Company keep the family busy - Your Dad, Norm, and Uncle George, ably assisted by Miss Haycraft, keep the Statesman Printing in good order - My Dad, Herb, bas a small Tire & Battery Shop in the Statesman building Next is the McMurtry Gro- cery & Dry Goods a big store - Harry C. Allin repairs bicycles and sells them in his shop --he's a good mechanie - Out of the Mouths of Babes Old Registry Office where car wash is now located. Helen Cryderman was in charge for many years - At the Flax Mill, corner of King and Scugog, Padian, Electric Toasters, Heaters are assembled etc. Last, but not least, is Vanstone's Feed Mill, where the boys swim in the summer and skate in the winter - We must not overlook Major Bounsall's Marble Works on Division Street where one chooses tombstones - And, of course, everyone knows Alfie Shrubb, the great runner, and Mr. Morden at the Cream of Barley Camp down by the cemetery - That's fair enough,"cause we want to see the Chautauqua Show at the school grounds tomorrow night - by E.P. Chant Question - How is it possible to love a car? I'm sorry, but my mind finds it very difficult to accept the success of car magazines and other things connected with the automobile business. For some reason, I just cannot comprehend someone be- coming attached to a bunch of nuts and bolts. It does happen, however, and I find such people very amusing. Their mechanical little minds are limited to garage jargon plus the colour- ful phrases that work their way into a vocabulary after you've dropped too many wrenches on your toes. They are perpetually covered with grease that couldn't be sand- blasted off. They generally have either a cannister of car wax or a screwdriver in their hand. They all use STP and carry snapshots of Andy Granitelli in their wallets. They are dirty, smelly, foul mouthed, oily mechanical mechanisms (this is strong language). The reason for the nasty tone here is because I like cars (not love) and I think what they (these supposed "car- lovers") do to a car is absolutely inhuman. How dare they take a nice shiny car off the assembly line - innocent and without choice as to its buyer - and brutalize it with their wrenches and screw- drivers? It makes me sick! They twist and bend the poor car's body until it would be unrecognizable to the mother factory. How would they like it if as soon as they were born some Vega came along and ran over their face because it wanted to make their face (grill-work) look "cooler"? But do these "grease apes" ever think about this? No, the filthy little creeps - they're too busy figuring out how they can get the car to go faster so they can get around town faster on Friday night and "lay more patches" (make black marks with their tires upon the pavement which proves noth- ing but remains a status symbol in car circles - the longer, the better). How ignorant can you get? What possible ecstacy can one find in putting a muffler on a car which, by its purposeful failure to muifle I AIIl l 91386 Alkyd House Paint White h INII IIMI ~II.I~ ~JJ~ Ujbi Net Contents: One Gallon (4.55 litres) I 91460 Acrylic Latex House Paint -V ý n II Jj W hiteIll Exterior A kyd House Paint High quality glossy paint for all round outside use. Covers well and resists fading. Covers approx. 600 ft. 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And, like the profession- al soldier, the people involved are all so pointless and silly. lst Maple Grove Cubs On Monday, April 26th, áll Cubs and Leaders went to Bestview Nursing home in Oshawa to put on a one hour show, which was fun and enjoyed by all. On Saturday, April 3rd, we went to the Oshawa Civic Auditorium to watch the Oshawa Figure skating club perform. At present the Cubs are all busy looking for sponsors for Trees for Canada. Each boy is asked to plant 25 trees and find sponsors for them. Planting date is on Saturday, May 8th, at 9 o'clock in Newcastle. If you would like to sponsor a boy, phone 623-5301. Also on Saturday, May 8th, we will be taking part in the Flea Market sale at MacDonald Ford. If you have any articles you would like to donate give us a call before May 7th. On Monday, May 17th, we will all be going to General Motors for the Open House tour. Our last paper and bottle drive for this season will be on Saturday, May 29th. Support Scouting in your area. Yours in Scouting Akela; Andy Van Hemmen. M CZ -qi