bk~ Iuwgns .irJ ~*fJI&wQki i WTOIYIOI T1IAI SALES SERVICE PARTS ®INVA]KOr 0as KING ST. 1. OSHAWA 48 mlu LAst ou IARMONI ».j 723-1176 Pretty blonide Kathy St. Aniart is tweilty years old and works at the Corner Store. Her hobbies include the usual things including a love for cats. -Photo by Mike Burgess business in whitby Colliii.i Shoes. 11I9 Brock St. South, is withoL;1 doubt the oldest business in Whitby. In 1872 Matthew Collins started the business in Whithy which would grow through good tirnes and had to the successful bus- mness today being managed hy Bob Collins. Bob's grandiather Matt- hias (M.W.) Collins was die seconîd step ini the history of Collins Shoes. From (M'W') the business.pased on to Bob's father Russ-eli B. Collins who put in sixty years in the business aiid sub.-,equently turned the reins over to Bob Collins. Mr. Bob Collins attrib- utes the success of the op- eration to "good service" and "top quality merch- andise".. He says: "you've neyer finislied le-rning. you've always got t() le ready ho chaime. I*ve al- ways tried ho improve the business as we hiave gone along". Perhaps that ex- plains t ay lie. ,,tock,,ý.about 10.000 pairs of shoes. M'r. Collins devotes rnosh of bis time to the store, but stili finds tirne to remaimi active ini the Whitby Chamber of Comm- erce as a direct in, the Whit- hy Rotary Club, of which he is a past-president, and the i)ownltown Action Co- nimittee...nlot ho mention playing a littie tennis, and ski-ing a littie whenl time perrnits. But what might give us an even bether insight into Mr. Bob Collins is a faded clipping, small, and seem- ingly insignificant, but was apparently considered imp- ortant enough to be taped on1 the waII of lus office, which reads "tIle inferior man crihicizes others and defends hirnself; the sup- erior man defends others anud criticizes himself. Mr. Bob Collins is obv- iously a superior man. FR11 PIZZA I WITH THE PURCHASE 0F ONE LARGE PIZZA CORNER PIZZA MON-SAT. 4-2 absb.m0.. g MM.-4-1 arn.5$RSOCK Sr. 4Joreski's Summer Resort Ltd. CLUB AN.NRENE A MODERN DANCE HALL PHONE 9185-306a Fishing - Swimming - Trailers, Camping & Marimu MIDD)LETON'S BOOK STORE WEDDING INVITATIONS & PRINTED STATIONERY WHITBV' 668-2492 WHITBY FREE PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1973, PAGE 13, The. FRIENDLY FLÉA MARKET e6ynd ithî ta KNG. ST. WEST 1703I Dunlop Radial PlyTr AT[ER$LEY TIRE SERVICE 103 buu.dgsSelo lest WhIuI -a