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Memories of... Kingsville, Leamington Memories of... and Wheatley Photos Kingsville, from Kingsville-GosfieldLeamington Heritage Society 1790-2000 A Stroll Through Time and Wheatley
Cedar Beach Drug Store, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 owned by Red Morris, Photo courtesy of the Kingsville Archives offered drugs, toiletries, china and souvenirs for sale as well as providing a luncheon menu. Speed boat rides were available from the Cedar Beach Drug Store for 50 cents a ride Canadian version or the American. for summer Prior to him, we had ‘Twin Pinesvisitors renting Dairy presents Milky the Clown’. Bya cabin or for cottagers not today’s standards, Milky would like-owning a boat. ly be creepy but he was fun to watch The boats could be taken through the placid canal or out into the rougher waters of Lake Erie. This photograph of an unidentified family, standing outside the Cedar Beach Drug Store, was taken in when we were kids. I loved Milky’s the late 1940s or early 1950s. show, but now all I can picture is John
We had great TV choices I’ve often done columns about some of my favourite TV shows as a kid, but this week, I’ll try to ‘shop local.’ So I was thinking about some of the more local stuff we watched as kids. Some of those shows were Canadian but many were American and aired out of Detroit or Ohio. My mother was a fan of Bill Kennedy at the Movies and the Rita Bell Prize Movie shows. So I saw a fair amount of old classics and my share of ‘B’ movies from those two shows. And although they were American, we considered them local because of Detroit’s proximity to home sweet home. I remember when the train derailed near the Leamington Fairgrounds and Bill Kennedy actually announced it on his show. We immediately jumped in the old Pontiac Laurentian and sped into town to see the carnage. Other movie host type shows included, of course, Sir Graves Ghastly, one of my personal faves. His show was broadcast out of Detroit every Saturday. I saw movies like Creature From The Black Lagoon and the original version of The Blob. The Ghoul, meanwhile was more prominent in my teenage years and originated in Cleveland. He did a lot of kooky stuff and was borderline crude on most things he said, but entertaining just the same. He was more late-night fare. Of course you can’t talk about local TV without talking about Bozo. I knew a few kids who went to the Windsor Tapings and won stuff. I absolutely loved Bozo, whether it was the
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Wayne Gacy. Weird how our outlook gets skewed over the years. Oopsy came along as Bozo faded and then he moved from Detroit to Kitchener and had quite a run on CKCO down there for many years. The older crowd will remember Soupy Sales, Poopdeck Paul, Captain Jolly and Johnny Ginger too. Of course the great Canadian TV shows were always good whether they were local or not. Shows like Mr. Dressup, the Friendly Giant, Chez Helene and Polka Dot Door were classics for many years. I remember getting to watch Friendly Giant in the morning before school. I watched it either before or after Captain Kangaroo. I can’t forget to mention The Forest Rangers and Adventures in Rainbow Country. These were big parts of my childhood. I think we were very fortunate in this area. We had the best of both worlds when it came to television.
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Kingsville Cricket Team in front of the Mettawas Hotel, around 1900. Back: unknown, E.A. A Look at ?Leamington’ s Past courtesy C. Scott Brown, Ern Ulch, King, Nelson Wigle, Tom Copus, Richardof Kratz. Front: ErnHolland Bailey, Art Brown, Herb Black, W.A. Smith, unknown, E.O.Scratch, Bill Black, Bob Fagan, unknown, Jim Black.
A Look at Leamington’s Past courtesy of C. Scott Holland April 1973: Buckingham Real Estate edged Gulliver Insurance 2-1 to win the Midget hockey trophy. At left is captain Ken Dick who scored both goals with coach Randy Critchlow.
March 29, 1972 - Construction of an $800,000 shopping mall on Talbot St. E. was kicked off as (l-r) Reuben Croll, Jerry Danilition, Herb Boloton, Mayor Ralph Nichol, Ed Cantor (of IGA) and Stanley Sternhal take part in the ground-breaking. The mall was slated to be 65,000 sq. ft. with a Metropolitan store (150 by 200 ft.) and an IGA grocery store (120 by 100 ft.). A Sept. 1 date was set for its completion.
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March 1991 - The Wheatleyrose District Club gathered their 1st evening annual Bowl-aSubmarine cycling - Ditches footOptimist after foot following thefor Thursday rainfall thon last Thursday night at Empire Lanes in Ruthven. Shown presenting thecycling”. 1st fundsIf and these young lads wasted no time inventing a new game, “submarine raised by the new club are President Chris Dundas, Patty Dierckens and Jim Shanks. All nothing else, it’s abyquick waygo totowards wash a helping ten-speed funds raised the club the bicycle! youth of the community.
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