tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26395547800921702362024-02-11T23:52:36.275-05:00HOT RODS and JALOPIESDave Cano's history blog in and of my home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay)....including Hot Rods, Jalopy Racing, old car stuff & many more interesting posts that celebrate important holidays and also generally what I like including some personal and also donated memories of interest from "The Hotrods and Jalopies era"...Mainly from the 1920s to the 1960s....Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-37417262953745725652022-05-23T22:49:00.002-04:002022-12-17T19:49:15.985-05:00Recently recovered photos from the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Racing Days in our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario....<p> With much thanks to Paula Orr and the owner of these photos, Gary Becotte and with permission we are able to add an all new HR&J post after many months. Some of these photos are very rare to me as not many have been taken of these cars, particularly Tom Dow's car and his hauler. A few other photos were taken from what was called the mezzanine. The CLE added extra uncovered bleachers on the north side of the covered grandstand a few years after racing started at the CLE in the early 1950's.</p><p>The first photo here is of Tom Dow's race car hauler painted to match his car back in 1954. The picture was taken in the lane-way behind what was the original Dow's Auto Electric which was located at 112 N. May St. later to become Chris' Billiard Hall. The building still exists today in the same location. </p><p>The building in the background here is the rear of the original St. Stanislaus (Stan's) school which also still exists today....the front of it faces Miles St. </p><p>Tom and his brother built and tuned Tom's #2 car in that building on 112 N. May. This is also where Tom met Barry Kettering who worked a few years before then for Thorne's Sargent Automotive which was located on the large parking lot on Violet St., before a spectacular fire had destroyed it.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMwr5fZWr2fve-LcpIAxmXEGOZNZ91IpnarBSNsbzIxZEno52jmlqQienmQfc7SZ63yArZQF50vu1TnnAEAcoyDWOulYhdL5k4DKcWU6FPAsBWh9vXXAeVtKtN6D4z5EHx4mlk_JygCVL_8ySlQSp1Fj1zM9SWJr2frmfOE-a8Bk0P-iKfFyQjylVxg/s2430/1%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="2430" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRMwr5fZWr2fve-LcpIAxmXEGOZNZ91IpnarBSNsbzIxZEno52jmlqQienmQfc7SZ63yArZQF50vu1TnnAEAcoyDWOulYhdL5k4DKcWU6FPAsBWh9vXXAeVtKtN6D4z5EHx4mlk_JygCVL_8ySlQSp1Fj1zM9SWJr2frmfOE-a8Bk0P-iKfFyQjylVxg/w640-h403/1%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The next photo here is the rear of the old St. Stan's school which can be seen behind the above photo and behind the following photo as well.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZb1OSIDSd_2nC7V7a8fWjTPaGs0q2vnfvK0HKsLsYRzcCwRdM4fO0fWSrHqOaK_AKU0GLNnpIKoPpXFRMfc6wkFC9KvxBsT-VTmbCV-RZCzFLfTlxrBhElJ6Hguh5c0z1WhKvyslhWBpCfzZzrSMKsAajSBuoVPsEmxGW-VUtrARH24vCSc4Yptfe8w/s840/1A%20-%20Violet%20Street%20St%20Stans%20rear.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="840" height="432" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZb1OSIDSd_2nC7V7a8fWjTPaGs0q2vnfvK0HKsLsYRzcCwRdM4fO0fWSrHqOaK_AKU0GLNnpIKoPpXFRMfc6wkFC9KvxBsT-VTmbCV-RZCzFLfTlxrBhElJ6Hguh5c0z1WhKvyslhWBpCfzZzrSMKsAajSBuoVPsEmxGW-VUtrARH24vCSc4Yptfe8w/w640-h432/1A%20-%20Violet%20Street%20St%20Stans%20rear.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Here's is how Tom Dow's car looked in 1953/54. It was a 1932 Ford 3-window coupe. The holy grail of the Hot Rod world today.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBLID8jreYPpMRSOUnv83wLtOa7lyf67JypMTBMbTo1W0Sn7Cp7NpoiqVgV4Lq_a7cMSFAUoDmokEbe-hAkSrb44U0WqTnqR3oRiavOq4Fu2VBerSdZ5g6BAxZmF1zmn7Slar_ChOXlIpMsHykkC8mdhuTkeX3po9h1fHQLoe5IoWwvp_4tOL7MzpDA/s2412/1A%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1658" data-original-width="2412" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBLID8jreYPpMRSOUnv83wLtOa7lyf67JypMTBMbTo1W0Sn7Cp7NpoiqVgV4Lq_a7cMSFAUoDmokEbe-hAkSrb44U0WqTnqR3oRiavOq4Fu2VBerSdZ5g6BAxZmF1zmn7Slar_ChOXlIpMsHykkC8mdhuTkeX3po9h1fHQLoe5IoWwvp_4tOL7MzpDA/w640-h440/1A%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The building below is the rear of 112 N. May St. as it looks today. You can see where the centre of the garage area was once opened to a large door where the Dow brothers worked on #2.</p><p>The picture on the right is of a very young Tom Dow in racing whites.... well I guess they were white before the races started.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBNF4d6lDDFwPao7GA4bSL0mDRrmxh-4qXxD98Pft_zOy0auV_hn38_RjUh0syDFKfMNwYS2QqnjfMSO06tJliCBDUl07xA0NMXHRozR2J3XMGYLamBb31xPzmi7uXpqYpEI_5P-Y79TLTpBIKCoX2_8HcZppfDwZThYo-cHJxDmCT-NjwgqotdEW7A/s1814/1B%20-%20Rear%20of%20Dow's%20Auto%20Electric.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1316" data-original-width="1814" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBNF4d6lDDFwPao7GA4bSL0mDRrmxh-4qXxD98Pft_zOy0auV_hn38_RjUh0syDFKfMNwYS2QqnjfMSO06tJliCBDUl07xA0NMXHRozR2J3XMGYLamBb31xPzmi7uXpqYpEI_5P-Y79TLTpBIKCoX2_8HcZppfDwZThYo-cHJxDmCT-NjwgqotdEW7A/w400-h290/1B%20-%20Rear%20of%20Dow's%20Auto%20Electric.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY651zhZnpBk0ad6Ddu1RXBeb6FA6xlw6J4DEO8kPTtMrKD9A117zoQKkzsHavMRC19VOqaejcKL8Iao3m6tStA-jtkuH7qdzIkSGnHKOKYe68LzEWjtL4BfOuXi7jeoc1qoJE2byXVmjZtzTKMzAzfp0eJLiVDSyN04TFwVjsTyjeUAP2zw6gDjoxZw/s1429/2A%20-%20Tom%20Dow.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="463" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY651zhZnpBk0ad6Ddu1RXBeb6FA6xlw6J4DEO8kPTtMrKD9A117zoQKkzsHavMRC19VOqaejcKL8Iao3m6tStA-jtkuH7qdzIkSGnHKOKYe68LzEWjtL4BfOuXi7jeoc1qoJE2byXVmjZtzTKMzAzfp0eJLiVDSyN04TFwVjsTyjeUAP2zw6gDjoxZw/w130-h400/2A%20-%20Tom%20Dow.jpg" width="130" /></a><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It's interesting to read the newspaper article below from July 29, 1954 to see what was happening at the old CLE 1/2 mile racetrack. Tom did go on to win the 1954 Championship and carry the trophy home.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQaT18PRSSOGtszMkXfFWyb5T-IJ_XcHcMazeY0fKbI-vPuAdq6Sk2qdext7spSAgWoUQ6t79RA8AoOkA_JrCOo3Elxb-Bxyvj_OONISiVc9YXH1-XnI2L4jg7cDfFZQ1-pCLTry8DAS5zW8TNPjfEbasMXZtuCdX_9HobVkXhuHk9G42S7Lm76Umiw/s1779/2B%20-%201954%20July%2029%20Dow%20Chalks%20Up%2011%20Points%20for%20Stock%20Car%20Lead.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1779" data-original-width="1442" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrQaT18PRSSOGtszMkXfFWyb5T-IJ_XcHcMazeY0fKbI-vPuAdq6Sk2qdext7spSAgWoUQ6t79RA8AoOkA_JrCOo3Elxb-Bxyvj_OONISiVc9YXH1-XnI2L4jg7cDfFZQ1-pCLTry8DAS5zW8TNPjfEbasMXZtuCdX_9HobVkXhuHk9G42S7Lm76Umiw/w518-h640/2B%20-%201954%20July%2029%20Dow%20Chalks%20Up%2011%20Points%20for%20Stock%20Car%20Lead.JPG" width="518" /></a></div><p></p><p> Next:</p><p>The following scrap yard photo is the first race car that Walter (Wally) (Walt) Prokosh raced at the CLE grounds in the same era that Tom Dow raced. The car was sponsored by D & J Stitt Menswear, and Mid City Machinery. It stood the test of time in 1953 but succumbed to it's injuries and by the end of the year, Wally had a brand new Jalopy to race.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqZ-2r9SCJBDInmB9fZbO-ACcnA3_5KlJ8A_NmWYzlPinBEUVYC3nBzzG3zUcwcs9f0h9kY3zyzvso37YRfHesREmxYPZE9fQ5u9vS-YKZ-PLMA0FDtHZrpl_FPRJFzRFTBZDeCZ05Hbu5nqrd2tc_B8dkd3ddkrXUycDmMcgUdAx6I4JfcdQVKlj-NQ/s1284/3B%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="1284" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqZ-2r9SCJBDInmB9fZbO-ACcnA3_5KlJ8A_NmWYzlPinBEUVYC3nBzzG3zUcwcs9f0h9kY3zyzvso37YRfHesREmxYPZE9fQ5u9vS-YKZ-PLMA0FDtHZrpl_FPRJFzRFTBZDeCZ05Hbu5nqrd2tc_B8dkd3ddkrXUycDmMcgUdAx6I4JfcdQVKlj-NQ/w640-h622/3B%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Here's Wally's next car...a very nice '37 Ford coupe with the same sponsors and number 55. Wally did pretty well with this car but destiny would change his future as you will see in the next photo.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsENptAV1eUYjh1kZ2jfoaezanwgTzGKwTUpobkDHVTOnarJyHdWKN4Sy-VW0-oRubne74-0d7iojSPnDFqQHRV2Ben70zCq7Kpfn47O9DkL2YQQUafDJWmKzU0o_zX9V8aIFoBsJSg6C1VYQdeVwpzFKUqTXPV5vNP6aTYHxuQHfnuP2-BEELJIeXfg/s1275/4%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="981" data-original-width="1275" height="492" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsENptAV1eUYjh1kZ2jfoaezanwgTzGKwTUpobkDHVTOnarJyHdWKN4Sy-VW0-oRubne74-0d7iojSPnDFqQHRV2Ben70zCq7Kpfn47O9DkL2YQQUafDJWmKzU0o_zX9V8aIFoBsJSg6C1VYQdeVwpzFKUqTXPV5vNP6aTYHxuQHfnuP2-BEELJIeXfg/w640-h492/4%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Wally was offered a driver's seat in the bright yellow #54 car owned and built by the Abitibi Power and Paper Company of Port Arthur. This winning car gave Wally a big name in the racing community here in the early 1950's. It was a 1933 Ford 3-window coupe. The use here of the wide 5 wheels from Ford's 1936 vehicles helped hold them to the hub at a 10 1/2 bolt circle. There were less wheel loss from a larger circle and the racing community continued to use the 10 1/2's for decades to come particularly on sprint cars.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXjaKTXP7EUhX8MIfqqn3cbb1a-EM_YxwXCenqh5pgJcsX6jeloj-4_MmaMk9BzKM9ers7HgCJ8neRBOttiSrdWQLSJMzZ3g1eqUqKotgOvxUpI1pQCXnO31oMKIMNZGjawxgRbzy5hPFqNzQhPZzTWBoI610W4xYYrVR0FFSGWmG3KLBflUFiH1FVw/s1779/5%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1566" data-original-width="1779" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxXjaKTXP7EUhX8MIfqqn3cbb1a-EM_YxwXCenqh5pgJcsX6jeloj-4_MmaMk9BzKM9ers7HgCJ8neRBOttiSrdWQLSJMzZ3g1eqUqKotgOvxUpI1pQCXnO31oMKIMNZGjawxgRbzy5hPFqNzQhPZzTWBoI610W4xYYrVR0FFSGWmG3KLBflUFiH1FVw/w640-h564/5%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p>Here's a great picture of Wally Prokosh, cig in hand and goggled helmet being very cool with his new jalopy to drive. This car also had a Ford overhead valve engine which basically put most of the flathead engines back in the pack.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIA8WfATz0DgdCW6BOPgtMzaE9DDG0JEWc06UmZqaGHWFhrueul-JO-uelenHzNkm468oV4C1CgqrBdb49Xt647bPDo45B9ALkzahdBypk8OeL_qt9RdgHtcEwNBmmqZPcsNxrYRrUGca1lBAWL8k6BJ2x5SgITWBGpudBNlOUMiwCGGxIkL82_Pg_A/s678/5A%20-%20Wally%20Prokosh%20%2354.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="405" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggIA8WfATz0DgdCW6BOPgtMzaE9DDG0JEWc06UmZqaGHWFhrueul-JO-uelenHzNkm468oV4C1CgqrBdb49Xt647bPDo45B9ALkzahdBypk8OeL_qt9RdgHtcEwNBmmqZPcsNxrYRrUGca1lBAWL8k6BJ2x5SgITWBGpudBNlOUMiwCGGxIkL82_Pg_A/w382-h640/5A%20-%20Wally%20Prokosh%20%2354.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><p></p><p>Next:</p><p>Smack dab in the middle of these great photos is this very early, circa 1953 photo of Don Marsh's #60 car which I believe was Don's very first stock car, sporting a Ford flathead engine and a yellow and black paint scheme. Don also did very well in his early years of racing. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGNjgGrovDYYMpeiMK7gS9fQo-JD-FChi5bjbZOXJ7gA8bIiQ9sryDPvw6Fc1jTpJBQWjagsajYn5pC3LZbkdpc91qE5vRIgdZzGJwzJNPsXdgvsWGj22PCTa6kxMzlSNuwWH9xacYB6xb3GrojwN1TGtVyKYRBLNTfirKT4ZNUKVkHEUYYL4TM9uzA/s1790/6%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1746" data-original-width="1790" height="624" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGNjgGrovDYYMpeiMK7gS9fQo-JD-FChi5bjbZOXJ7gA8bIiQ9sryDPvw6Fc1jTpJBQWjagsajYn5pC3LZbkdpc91qE5vRIgdZzGJwzJNPsXdgvsWGj22PCTa6kxMzlSNuwWH9xacYB6xb3GrojwN1TGtVyKYRBLNTfirKT4ZNUKVkHEUYYL4TM9uzA/w640-h624/6%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>From the Mezzanine this photo was taken of #77 Clyde Ditmars from Kakabeka Falls leading an unknown driver here coming out of turn 4. There was consistant great racing at the CLE track in the 1950's and as a kid I dreamed about someday racing a jalopy, but it had to wait until I was older and until Riverview Raceway was built, and by then they weren't called jalopies.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2BgCFtJxtXERd6GxfHkSV-auVsdXEmtZZNQwaNEHu2aT_2lFfjE9exfjWaBjv1-HdmU4ghjAf7XkfIabOhtNPgtJYRRRt7VTEa3akKNJcLq09x0pEz8AWVAZdErs0mQeDmEJ1dcD8_Msww9e-DygOFHmVMzjmI0k0i0kPO0ICPpMY82a5D_06RH5S9g/s1790/7%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1685" data-original-width="1790" height="602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2BgCFtJxtXERd6GxfHkSV-auVsdXEmtZZNQwaNEHu2aT_2lFfjE9exfjWaBjv1-HdmU4ghjAf7XkfIabOhtNPgtJYRRRt7VTEa3akKNJcLq09x0pEz8AWVAZdErs0mQeDmEJ1dcD8_Msww9e-DygOFHmVMzjmI0k0i0kPO0ICPpMY82a5D_06RH5S9g/w640-h602/7%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>Here's another of Wally Prokosh coming out of turn 4 as well with what looks like someone on their lid halfway through the corner. Not clear but who cares....these are great photos.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA2v4THgc_rpTSLIGYXnWvcSUI47cpS66gOB6J6qy2s89l9VEiVPDVoS4eNLSQqnkpHENvWZC-l23OItFLFyLw3iuHtuLVwuMFNcibObVsn8zuZvaja9UTfp89BEAPAsV-R266hF92VPjEJWC65lL35Aeg-eVfi4gZsIN9J3OYB64z8GhLBy16qs6bg/s1797/8%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1746" data-original-width="1797" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA2v4THgc_rpTSLIGYXnWvcSUI47cpS66gOB6J6qy2s89l9VEiVPDVoS4eNLSQqnkpHENvWZC-l23OItFLFyLw3iuHtuLVwuMFNcibObVsn8zuZvaja9UTfp89BEAPAsV-R266hF92VPjEJWC65lL35Aeg-eVfi4gZsIN9J3OYB64z8GhLBy16qs6bg/w640-h622/8%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>Here's another of Wally in #54 with #36 further down the track. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_tgST_yO6qSzXLCYYvyLd-z4JpJCs1AftilUHeccWPdPcF50dzAebvGG66SNXF-Szfcgr6qTspK7OqvqlPPRfftI7-Vz6ykOcXYuFWQtR111GXAQrRSOWLOn-P3JZRh2f6zuioFzrzydBrTSqpZbwJykigH2yeGS5uFG0BSMLtgThBd0hsnSi8q2mw/s1777/9%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1523" data-original-width="1777" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_tgST_yO6qSzXLCYYvyLd-z4JpJCs1AftilUHeccWPdPcF50dzAebvGG66SNXF-Szfcgr6qTspK7OqvqlPPRfftI7-Vz6ykOcXYuFWQtR111GXAQrRSOWLOn-P3JZRh2f6zuioFzrzydBrTSqpZbwJykigH2yeGS5uFG0BSMLtgThBd0hsnSi8q2mw/w640-h548/9%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally we have Albert Massaro in his Rea's Esso #88 car going the wrong way 👈😂 ....and I have no idea who's driving the blurred car. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4_tKDbuCt-Oc_3g4a6oZXP64JcOxU92XeB8qr4kSyxSOfPkqvICoH1XnOpQQ8dOgZFwhDe6LLYlK0JCrejnDcL5hJQkuQbpsPhlpyskyTHxkNmUP2mFOMpeMJdozP718QUV4CgcR9t_wfnia9oB8K4xKVAhUgbNnctqRLXEERUj30UvuoERorW3r3A/s1778/10%20-%20wm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="1778" height="530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir4_tKDbuCt-Oc_3g4a6oZXP64JcOxU92XeB8qr4kSyxSOfPkqvICoH1XnOpQQ8dOgZFwhDe6LLYlK0JCrejnDcL5hJQkuQbpsPhlpyskyTHxkNmUP2mFOMpeMJdozP718QUV4CgcR9t_wfnia9oB8K4xKVAhUgbNnctqRLXEERUj30UvuoERorW3r3A/w640-h530/10%20-%20wm.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Lastly here is the actual Lakehead Stock Car Club logo which was put to use on literally hundreds of racing jackets from the good old Canadian Lakehead Exhibition days.</p><p>All the above photos were copied and edited to make them as clear as we could to bring out the detail. Thanks again to Gary Becotte for the photos and Paula Orr for bringing them to our attention at the Hotrods and Jalopies blog pages. A couple of my archive photos and a news clip were also added.<br /></p><p>......thanks for visiting us again at HR&J, with more new racing posts to come.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPGsFTl7uPKzqfXj9GP72bcnqN4r9MZ9l3Kz4-NLUDPu5lXA1hVNzOAybJJPnlMY_h4wSdEhZitqjXhfNXO9LphF-V2PjOFyMl6wGuSCpjkOWIRXyPJsPpbjzwXN9Ge1y5ayMJngW3YC3nmuO-vaDZuQK1DeuFUV-91iV8FK8ONewXM0xsxldY3CZXw/s745/11%20-%20Lakehead%20Stock%20Car%20Club.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="632" data-original-width="745" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPGsFTl7uPKzqfXj9GP72bcnqN4r9MZ9l3Kz4-NLUDPu5lXA1hVNzOAybJJPnlMY_h4wSdEhZitqjXhfNXO9LphF-V2PjOFyMl6wGuSCpjkOWIRXyPJsPpbjzwXN9Ge1y5ayMJngW3YC3nmuO-vaDZuQK1DeuFUV-91iV8FK8ONewXM0xsxldY3CZXw/w400-h339/11%20-%20Lakehead%20Stock%20Car%20Club.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0Thunder Bay, ON, Canada48.3808951 -89.247682320.070661263821151 -124.4039323 76.691128936178842 -54.091432299999994tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-23271111475482124422021-12-24T00:43:00.009-05:002021-12-24T00:54:30.718-05:00Christmas Memories in our Home Towns of Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario plus a few others...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Here's my annual Christmas Post with some familiar local photos and also some familiar memories that we likely all will remember. The past year has been up and down for us and many others, but as Christmas draws near we try to calm ourselves and try to remember the things that made us happy throughout the years.<p></p><p>With that in mind, I start off with my annual FAKE NEWS magazine by taking a vintage magazine and make it look like a tongue in cheek edition of Hot Rods and Jalopies, a magazine that never was.</p><p>Note: Try single or double clicking on each of the photos for good enlargements....<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTeXbElo366hoBIIp3jLrvQnnaTT85WmICybuA3AgY76zhW6ltB4NsW8qjVcJQVukslubCeAD4mfTfC_ZWZy-dnMmsSkM_nYH_NsmfkiqW4vhPtcYO2uSkbjVAKwCBmMjSVWxzEEz1qeDQaEUI2xxutGF_ZMVheircMMqxTL7KHqZVh1ouqn_7O46E4g=s1650" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1650" data-original-width="1225" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTeXbElo366hoBIIp3jLrvQnnaTT85WmICybuA3AgY76zhW6ltB4NsW8qjVcJQVukslubCeAD4mfTfC_ZWZy-dnMmsSkM_nYH_NsmfkiqW4vhPtcYO2uSkbjVAKwCBmMjSVWxzEEz1qeDQaEUI2xxutGF_ZMVheircMMqxTL7KHqZVh1ouqn_7O46E4g=w476-h640" width="476" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>The next two photos many of you have seen before, but are two of my favourite local pictures from our storied past. The first is how I remembered our city hall in Fort William, on the same property as the present one now in Thunder Bay.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_obyHZWnK6BHr-U8SVk1CylPKTZDhkJkTinKEqJEgzTYhiWQKyhkANsszzzgL1VK3nw1P6kjJ7YMyLkvOc5g6ouRO6Ns7n4mQ6i8HZadbyuOUS95DVKdMneRrt4rm9z4e6PE3Qq1kEgFgZihDp9dN5zjHY43JyTTC3s3kgYjUT5U2_3QSf5mxrauAkw=s732" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="732" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_obyHZWnK6BHr-U8SVk1CylPKTZDhkJkTinKEqJEgzTYhiWQKyhkANsszzzgL1VK3nw1P6kjJ7YMyLkvOc5g6ouRO6Ns7n4mQ6i8HZadbyuOUS95DVKdMneRrt4rm9z4e6PE3Qq1kEgFgZihDp9dN5zjHY43JyTTC3s3kgYjUT5U2_3QSf5mxrauAkw=w640-h469" width="640" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> A holiday truth to remember.....<br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTWLjp_4hGbqdWluXu2Ysq-feJXp-kLdaHXu0xkCaEm44kVF_PyQ-RHGHP71XemdtZqmUEnaFZcqr-10Mat_7ISn9XwjZGIr1CeMXn9z9roPoOXUSqa4OUBdDuQXRyS94tXspdysgSwXs2Lk71-vBQgxoikt6lOLZq-J1tZ128djgDI3Za--ib2kOovQ=s385" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="385" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTWLjp_4hGbqdWluXu2Ysq-feJXp-kLdaHXu0xkCaEm44kVF_PyQ-RHGHP71XemdtZqmUEnaFZcqr-10Mat_7ISn9XwjZGIr1CeMXn9z9roPoOXUSqa4OUBdDuQXRyS94tXspdysgSwXs2Lk71-vBQgxoikt6lOLZq-J1tZ128djgDI3Za--ib2kOovQ=w400-h393" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The following is a very typical seasonal Coca Cola advertisement from the 1960's<br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBKu1oMVp__Irgb3amfjdAiqqKocPgTo3Fui3cTGE02O6mLoZVlZOcEhO-RbrOqYBNuVhDjoEFA2e6uz889pipis-7TZ6GtCWctQ8HonraTDuEeL2uw775dqDWg0hhMLXrkzTctIRHSIiAHH_53i_JazvLuOPWI4NqMCxSlbTfTtCggRj8-3DdH873gA=s1919" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1919" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBKu1oMVp__Irgb3amfjdAiqqKocPgTo3Fui3cTGE02O6mLoZVlZOcEhO-RbrOqYBNuVhDjoEFA2e6uz889pipis-7TZ6GtCWctQ8HonraTDuEeL2uw775dqDWg0hhMLXrkzTctIRHSIiAHH_53i_JazvLuOPWI4NqMCxSlbTfTtCggRj8-3DdH873gA=w534-h640" width="534" /></a></div><p> </p><p> I just title this one "Oh nooooo!"<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJq1vkWaoKvCbzDOW4TJh36kHEmQrTowKHdRW5kTbMaO7cRQSy4BCCMkgdUj7DwMVpun7veyQqY7e34XheKs21Y-Qempagt1hMg5iYjhQZ-LJcWSmEjrd4tD-FkZ-9QDakrrw2z-KD9MG6W_3MnFtSTJVGOMICC5YUsUM_GEgtYmUB89TTmZptf3SHRg=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="953" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJq1vkWaoKvCbzDOW4TJh36kHEmQrTowKHdRW5kTbMaO7cRQSy4BCCMkgdUj7DwMVpun7veyQqY7e34XheKs21Y-Qempagt1hMg5iYjhQZ-LJcWSmEjrd4tD-FkZ-9QDakrrw2z-KD9MG6W_3MnFtSTJVGOMICC5YUsUM_GEgtYmUB89TTmZptf3SHRg=w508-h640" width="508" /></a></div><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: small;"> A very typical Street Scene in the 1940's anywhere in Canada or the USA......</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhULrVXkrQkTQLTbMgCR1Sg2--Q6enh5MLxN46zZPBqdGvUlaR5bV3ggdS44mvnl_H96wNOhcxHxwhbp-Fvg0XUA14Cics0oBcJWSAqaf4jc2VUmjpdQYGGnFWS_CFiXiND3m7U-rz9HUYgI5oKsz0LILccNXadDMJ9aXuwEjRg1kAjYjlqIZXujJ3Pyw=s736" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="736" height="501" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhULrVXkrQkTQLTbMgCR1Sg2--Q6enh5MLxN46zZPBqdGvUlaR5bV3ggdS44mvnl_H96wNOhcxHxwhbp-Fvg0XUA14Cics0oBcJWSAqaf4jc2VUmjpdQYGGnFWS_CFiXiND3m7U-rz9HUYgI5oKsz0LILccNXadDMJ9aXuwEjRg1kAjYjlqIZXujJ3Pyw=w640-h501" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Getting your Christmas tree in those days meant heading out to the bush to cut one down. It was an annual event in our household to bring home as many as you could stack on your car for your families and or your neighbours too.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYwhAfNOCUx09NotKwurPC7P1MC_SMiQNAkGGDWRcUG_IYG7bXgZmf_0gleqpmXozZi0GiNGEp-j2biQWZW5gULkIaH6qIJn5MIh_QivfL8MqyIezDkhH0_mzQ4isbr15DbpSAtsul4r-m9ylDJSP0WuyQcIuetDu5mW5nxvuJi63MO-00DwkAeT1gTA=s1400" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1400" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYwhAfNOCUx09NotKwurPC7P1MC_SMiQNAkGGDWRcUG_IYG7bXgZmf_0gleqpmXozZi0GiNGEp-j2biQWZW5gULkIaH6qIJn5MIh_QivfL8MqyIezDkhH0_mzQ4isbr15DbpSAtsul4r-m9ylDJSP0WuyQcIuetDu5mW5nxvuJi63MO-00DwkAeT1gTA=w400-h386" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Most kids today never share in the enjoyment and excitement heading out to the bush for Christmas trees. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGr56G6yefYeQNjoVXlJsE-3IKxyenZx_0PBU5yhX1WUHYgENua35uFM1tw848lyPdh3WlHjzcwm14cBciM5sx0_NvBX6mRfPZWLp83iRXlvi0pDc9etbP2YYs1INUP8Q7WhEVOK3XwepjrLrjzMOZZXN1sjR0KWhRjUsUT8Us3WOAN7duGSMt5oo5UQ=s387" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="264" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGr56G6yefYeQNjoVXlJsE-3IKxyenZx_0PBU5yhX1WUHYgENua35uFM1tw848lyPdh3WlHjzcwm14cBciM5sx0_NvBX6mRfPZWLp83iRXlvi0pDc9etbP2YYs1INUP8Q7WhEVOK3XwepjrLrjzMOZZXN1sjR0KWhRjUsUT8Us3WOAN7duGSMt5oo5UQ=s320" width="218" /></a></div><p></p>You may remember seeing photos like this of your parents or grandparents with a tree on the roof of their Model T Ford.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVQcs4rfU_E6MRZkXpxVDIOcy5Zq7bCnjnQBSD7r8TOGitbgXHGTUwvNzVFs0qI1_cf74sJvstLQlrmF3hXvBJ-a5551C91Kjss5fVxclcBmo-PTrdPglhs6TuQIgZdOBRiOMycXqVWqnQ2Og0fMVbf_5qveD_NHhkQLQZzqlAJTcCum7jDNMH9NfLLw=s2300" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="2300" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiVQcs4rfU_E6MRZkXpxVDIOcy5Zq7bCnjnQBSD7r8TOGitbgXHGTUwvNzVFs0qI1_cf74sJvstLQlrmF3hXvBJ-a5551C91Kjss5fVxclcBmo-PTrdPglhs6TuQIgZdOBRiOMycXqVWqnQ2Og0fMVbf_5qveD_NHhkQLQZzqlAJTcCum7jDNMH9NfLLw=w400-h296" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p>Here is a small town shopping district on a winter's evening looking very cold, but your family may have been out looking for a last minute gift for someone special....and the weather wouldn't have mattered.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Treasure Chest Comics were a staple around our house at Christmas or any other time of the year. They always depicted typical family stories and gatherings all year long<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI5vRZg6o7MXa-kS87GJdjMuVpT57htlwgRiKN2KJ_SAXTvvlc-1aQs_b4azSOg5TtXgTq3i5Uk9wGt3jAq_9xK0okY15lOaNaKLY_vCpcI0q8WvnrQk6AsLxMYHEjfR08j6t5p9FNVJqMypykFa73dTku8zHcZSB9agv4B4ri6j98awvXYk4vxdTNnQ=s387" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="268" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI5vRZg6o7MXa-kS87GJdjMuVpT57htlwgRiKN2KJ_SAXTvvlc-1aQs_b4azSOg5TtXgTq3i5Uk9wGt3jAq_9xK0okY15lOaNaKLY_vCpcI0q8WvnrQk6AsLxMYHEjfR08j6t5p9FNVJqMypykFa73dTku8zHcZSB9agv4B4ri6j98awvXYk4vxdTNnQ=w278-h400" width="278" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Every adult seemed to have smoked back in the day and Santa of course always smoked a pipe....so of course you'd see many pieces of advertising similar to this one.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi6ydtAeSHUPNKpisPduBPH_g8g7v40wmwxHZi_1jpZL0xlRWHTihvHobrBiG-iddtTlovK8hrEeZmf331Jb7dt5mdyfy8KWdsLpuVgyKLMt1tfwcm_7ED3jRtfPI-O_oSoLNM4Qe8EV9dCVohABMbeDu5wPqTIifbh6neBf2a62RtNdnDHKR2t5k0BA=s1030" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="773" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi6ydtAeSHUPNKpisPduBPH_g8g7v40wmwxHZi_1jpZL0xlRWHTihvHobrBiG-iddtTlovK8hrEeZmf331Jb7dt5mdyfy8KWdsLpuVgyKLMt1tfwcm_7ED3jRtfPI-O_oSoLNM4Qe8EV9dCVohABMbeDu5wPqTIifbh6neBf2a62RtNdnDHKR2t5k0BA=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A typical scene long before Mom and Dad were up.....and I'm sure you remember doing this, or maybe sneaking a peek or two at what was right under the tree from Santa.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSQlXQchs8WFgfMg6j3gwImOQCuMcHeUGv-87o9290suXTBgErKz9gnLhCcpbqO72qH9OgypLVb3cMz3iQxt8cnzNuDrAkPUXAfskfHDk63cAKaN9I2o4OO8668h-fvckRpt_k7PCSGPzGj2BoLCLYKzZrJKiGhgShj9Ww_a663dQ65lXdiX3IrcB6fQ=s1055" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1055" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSQlXQchs8WFgfMg6j3gwImOQCuMcHeUGv-87o9290suXTBgErKz9gnLhCcpbqO72qH9OgypLVb3cMz3iQxt8cnzNuDrAkPUXAfskfHDk63cAKaN9I2o4OO8668h-fvckRpt_k7PCSGPzGj2BoLCLYKzZrJKiGhgShj9Ww_a663dQ65lXdiX3IrcB6fQ=w400-h326" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Long before computers and the like.....I remember getting a Telegram from Santa. How many young people even know what a Telegram is?<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdrkfnVl_4_XhOqF0VMXvjD29xbNF60WE1kfzWqPdwLADrHzTNiIqnksZdvi5leCv6XqTB-8aUfFZQaHMGuyQqGXK5VkhIL_A3FTaTIJWYVz9t4cl8aFeNXmAwK_PAQubAKNHxZ8NkqN0cg76hYXb9kvyXkyc5OvIAg_kqZkgk_b4yJ9Fdyvl5sXh6FQ=s1058" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="875" data-original-width="1058" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdrkfnVl_4_XhOqF0VMXvjD29xbNF60WE1kfzWqPdwLADrHzTNiIqnksZdvi5leCv6XqTB-8aUfFZQaHMGuyQqGXK5VkhIL_A3FTaTIJWYVz9t4cl8aFeNXmAwK_PAQubAKNHxZ8NkqN0cg76hYXb9kvyXkyc5OvIAg_kqZkgk_b4yJ9Fdyvl5sXh6FQ=w400-h331" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A television set in the house in the early 1950's was a rarity, but by the end of the 1950's almost every home had a typical Dumont, or maybe a Sylvania or RCA black and white television set.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8LqgqaX30h2Q5XJ29uNBDdozE8JaTwchJzCFEbX1GJF97lak885eSAlj_WWfgDxkUN25IMbv0t5ketvuq7BHve9P0jItNzGRigfYhdv5miQrOcTKfR6jAnm-5aI5OVzuOS2-_pi1-Q_2olRrVyxYdCyowtH8IftXEF4191cjzA0hwVh2XogFNxfDZuQ=s1228" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="1228" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8LqgqaX30h2Q5XJ29uNBDdozE8JaTwchJzCFEbX1GJF97lak885eSAlj_WWfgDxkUN25IMbv0t5ketvuq7BHve9P0jItNzGRigfYhdv5miQrOcTKfR6jAnm-5aI5OVzuOS2-_pi1-Q_2olRrVyxYdCyowtH8IftXEF4191cjzA0hwVh2XogFNxfDZuQ=w640-h626" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> Or maybe mom or dad got a new Nash in 1951<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcFHjb_APE7hqqFMu7AwMgUGu9AiZHoFOkDwvu5xqXAIQ6AJlmR_vCtTaLMefuLJHi_jHbmFdlja7oOGN9Ur6ib_cbFeIlom5-WPBvpjghbs8T3rWkXbYOlqcoVMoamMrJ2R8K_u221GsG9J3P2oqRX2BHT8Z77RMW9OGL5rBEe_zX_p3LZhBkW_PUcA=s1165" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="1165" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcFHjb_APE7hqqFMu7AwMgUGu9AiZHoFOkDwvu5xqXAIQ6AJlmR_vCtTaLMefuLJHi_jHbmFdlja7oOGN9Ur6ib_cbFeIlom5-WPBvpjghbs8T3rWkXbYOlqcoVMoamMrJ2R8K_u221GsG9J3P2oqRX2BHT8Z77RMW9OGL5rBEe_zX_p3LZhBkW_PUcA=w640-h398" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> Or a new Plymouth in 1948.....things were getting better after the war was over......<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjaL-iZF1LOVLwZ2xuVM8SQoZkt6yRi70rQZnNm2Xltarv-n79EpKdpNiMaN8omdNKdhbQQqAg3DFg5yh6feitLhwYw3nlSHxEtUiLm4szrM2Yb2gBSryVpnyXIQK8LBv9XDOvtOQ8gCPNGU-226CUuhwvz72uR8p-NSvUne86eZraUw5ljI1kKrpumg=s1400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1123" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjaL-iZF1LOVLwZ2xuVM8SQoZkt6yRi70rQZnNm2Xltarv-n79EpKdpNiMaN8omdNKdhbQQqAg3DFg5yh6feitLhwYw3nlSHxEtUiLm4szrM2Yb2gBSryVpnyXIQK8LBv9XDOvtOQ8gCPNGU-226CUuhwvz72uR8p-NSvUne86eZraUw5ljI1kKrpumg=w514-h640" width="514" /></a></div><p></p><p>I'm coming to the end of the 2021 Christmas Post, but I would be remiss if I didn't post this great photo of my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter volunteering for this year collecting for the parade of lights.....what a beautiful pair and a beautiful moment. We are so proud of you both for doing this.💓💓<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBR-EDdAf_PI8YvVjkETfN-N3utJiHrRwDNCVo3zWf3WJlnT5v7MqLa4Yg-8gT495XzSG1pjFCkNjoqH7zL8fucszQKMytQREZibA6ePtyRMWB44w_MujK4ggc5sNTSLwBYfmu_T3I-XjfOTsxAZbS4oo8h5PuG6gYrM5QTy95DpGRXuIzjDP9dckCRQ=s387" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="294" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBR-EDdAf_PI8YvVjkETfN-N3utJiHrRwDNCVo3zWf3WJlnT5v7MqLa4Yg-8gT495XzSG1pjFCkNjoqH7zL8fucszQKMytQREZibA6ePtyRMWB44w_MujK4ggc5sNTSLwBYfmu_T3I-XjfOTsxAZbS4oo8h5PuG6gYrM5QTy95DpGRXuIzjDP9dckCRQ=w304-h400" width="304" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Merry Christmas to all......and to all a Good Night......................</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj2Cx4zKthwkS--uucLNyn5oEG4H7cAYJm_P7dEdR16pEicYLSAPzrI1exsOSMrZz4nI96lJQG80PkgSI9Ef7UN008P72GadM8lGH1qJJjCjZaDc7cMP5HOvS2g8MP0aoj04K_9Ry6sqRelJvBF2f5mLvKLMNVtUaXoUNMPJqz44LFURaQTu_l87D65Q=s387" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj2Cx4zKthwkS--uucLNyn5oEG4H7cAYJm_P7dEdR16pEicYLSAPzrI1exsOSMrZz4nI96lJQG80PkgSI9Ef7UN008P72GadM8lGH1qJJjCjZaDc7cMP5HOvS2g8MP0aoj04K_9Ry6sqRelJvBF2f5mLvKLMNVtUaXoUNMPJqz44LFURaQTu_l87D65Q=w496-h640" width="496" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><br /><br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-14681706410310898152021-11-07T00:55:00.008-04:002021-12-23T09:39:09.871-05:00Canadian Lakehead Exhibition 1953 fresh and new Stock Car film with written play by play from our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ont.<p>Rarely do we find an old piece of never seen before film from the original Canadian Lakehead Exhibition 1/2 mile track, and before I show it to you, I have to thank a few people for it's find and excellent film transfer to present day digital.</p><p>Firstly, I believe the photographer back in 1953 was Y. W. Nelson of Port Arthur as noted on the 8mm film pack. It was given to me by Louis Shaw for my exclusive use. The film transfer was done by Mark Lucchese of "Once In A Lifetime Productions" who did an incredible job keeping as much colour and clarity as possible. To get the best transfer is having the original film to do it.</p><p>Many of the names and numbers you will see don't match the ones later in the 1950's. The Lakehead Stock Car Club was in its infancy here and drivers were just starting out, many changed cars and numbers as time went on, but what you see and read here is taken from archives. <br /></p><p>I will show the silent film first, then I will do a rundown on who all the drivers were back in 1953/54. You can enlarge the film to full screen by passing your mouse and clicking on the little box on the bottom right hand corner of the film clip then click on Esc (escape) on your computer to bring it back to here.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyfhIFE4tRvzaZkwkT-ExsnET6GAxQZ57nl-2hDHvSnzYEobCllZdgmN2YMCF_5-ZvOo_pBDElLYLxK67IOMA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p>The play by play starts and continues as each car number appears in the film:</p><p>Parked in the pits in the front is the #2 black and white car driven by Tom Dow, and parked next to him in red and white is #3 driven by Eddie Cusson. The #89 black with white lettering is Pat Allen. Next to him in pale yellow is #88, Albert Massaro.</p><p>Cruising by is #57 driven by Brent Hard. #97 in red and white is John Cole. The tri-coloured car is #37 driven by Glen Kettering.</p><p>Following that is an overhead pit shot. They lined up the cars in the pits in numerical order for the judges.</p><p>Lined up next are the red #73, Jim Manduca, then #57 Brent Hard, followed by #88, Albert Massaro showing its checkered top. #3 is Eddie Cusson, #97 is John Cole. These cars commence a race.</p><p>With the photographer actually standing on the top or the old original grandstand you can clearly see all the elevators on the waterfront and pretty much nothing at all in the intercity area.</p><p>Massaro and Cusson battle for 1st place, and if you look closely you can see #7 driven by Louis Tocheri in Maroon and Yellow. Passing Louis is #11 driven by John Zatti (The Potter and Kerr car). Coming in neck and neck is #11 John Zatti and #90 Dickie Tonkin. </p><p>Parked in front of the grandstand is the famous silver #47, One of Barry Kettering's first car (the roller skate car).</p><p>Lining up is #83, a studebaker driven by John Panvica, then #89 driven by Pat Allen. Pulling out of the pits is #49, a Dominion Motors sponsored Pontiac driven by Conrad Trombelli.</p><p>The #95 7up car driven by Bob Cameron with a nice lead, but coming our of turn 2 hit the rub rail and rolled it. Then can't quite see who took the win.</p><p>Next you see #99, another car driven by Johnny Panvica (different class) Classes were slow car and fast car determined by time trials and modifications. Then you see #37 the Glen Kettering car, then the extra nice orange '49 Ford #15 driven by Sam Myronuk. </p><p>The next scene shows single file, first the checkered top car #77 driven my Clyde Ditmars from Kakabeka Falls, then #2 Tom Dow, then the blue #99 Johnny Panvica. Another car you can see here is #98 driven by Ross "Pappy" Fowler.</p><p>The film ends with #37 Glen Kettering and #15 Sam Myronuk in a dead heat at the finish.</p><p>I hope you enjoyed this treasure. It is the best coloured and oldest film I have seen from The Lakehead Stock Car Club. 1953</p><p>The Centerfold from the 1953 program below shows all the names and numbers. <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQic6SqVVFB-ShyphenhyphenkvHIh6zbhJRWDJhivFFJDLoC_RWmLSBrvGJzUEv9zsjGmEidY-ZmoWdmqxaHdv-xUwZbaEhkzA5E5dvT3xxjXLeTOp-hHZhFKtmr6Drylkcd10Yjy7MgTGxvlvbaQN/s2048/Centerfold+1953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1557" data-original-width="2048" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNQic6SqVVFB-ShyphenhyphenkvHIh6zbhJRWDJhivFFJDLoC_RWmLSBrvGJzUEv9zsjGmEidY-ZmoWdmqxaHdv-xUwZbaEhkzA5E5dvT3xxjXLeTOp-hHZhFKtmr6Drylkcd10Yjy7MgTGxvlvbaQN/w640-h486/Centerfold+1953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-23244000124366306282021-07-25T23:29:00.001-04:002021-07-25T23:29:00.149-04:00Broad Perspectives......Then's, Now's and More History From Our Home Towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We love to confront our broad perspective on history by seeing <b><i>what was</i></b> and of course <b><i>what is now</i></b>. As historians we enjoy placing pictures over pictures to visualize how it <i><b>was</b></i>. This one of the CLE Coliseum building taken in about 1957 is a perfect example along side the same Coliseum building we can still see on a daily basis if you're so inclined....you can actually go and stand on the same spot today where Albert Massaro's #88 car was.<br />
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<b>The next photo</b> is a little different....It is <b>John Panvica</b> driving the #83 1952 Studebaker....now John wanted this pretty ugly car mainly because it had a V8 engine 3 years before General Motors started putting them in their 1955 Chevys.<br />
John didn't care what his car looked like. It was still faster than your typical flathead Ford and faster also because the Studebaker was only one year old. John had purchased a wrecked newer car and did do pretty well that year, and oh, you can see the Coliseum building behind the fence too. How his car might have once looked.....is the nice new 1952 Studebaker 4 door sedan below.<br />
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<b>The program line-up</b> for 1953 below shows a picture of John and also shows him listed in the roster squared in blue.</div>
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A note here is that <b>Jessiman Motors</b> at that time was located on the South/West corner of May and Bethune Street where the new Tim Horton's is today. Many of you will well remember the names on this stock car jockeys list from 1953.</div>
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This is what the <b>SW corner of May & Bethune</b> looked like before the new Tim's was built.....Jessiman Motors was right on this spot. <br />
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Just as all those CLE racers did, many of us young racing enthusiasts had to find some great race car material when we dug in our heels at Riverview Raceways. Mind you, the old jalopies at the CLE could very well have been some very cool hot rods today. Now all these years later we realized that we destroyed some pretty cool cars too. The nice Teal car top left is a 1956 Pontiac 2-door sedan....the race car of the same vintage is my own that I raced at Riverview in 1968. I had actually destroyed 4 old Pontiacs, 2 1955's and 2 1956's in total until I retired from racing. The bottom photo in the left group photo is the location the race car picture was taken, near the corner of Brock and Frederica Street where I lived at the time.<br />
The top of the two photo collage on the right is an advertisement for Bear Safety Service located at 519 E. Brock St. Sam and Aldo were incredible front end men, and I brought many a vehicle there for a flawless front end alignment. The building still exists today and near the top left of the bottom photo you can make out a bit of the original sign down at the southern end of Syndicate Ave.<br />
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Here's a nice photo of the <b>Uncle Franks's Supper Club</b> sign just before the building and sign were being readied for a total makeover. My friend and HR&J proof reader Al Yahn and I decided that we should take a picture of our cars in front of the sign before it was gone forever....we're so glad we did.<br />
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Uncle Franks was a pillar of the community for many years, and it was very nice to see someone purchase the old building and re-purpose it as another already well known eating establishment, known as Beaux Daddy's Grill House.<br />
It's nice to see that the building was saved from the wrecking ball.<br />
Kudos to Beaux Daddy's.....<br />
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Red Top Cabs was located on the north/east corner of Leith and Simpson Street as noted on the business card in the following collage. I've had the metal flake decal from quite some time...and can't remember where it came from or actually how old it is. It is quite large and likely would have been used on the doors of the cabs.<br />
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<b>The following group of photos</b> are such a part of my younger years. We lived on Arthur St., about half a block east of Vicker's Park. The CNR steam trains would go right down Arthur St. from a spur off the main line, and right past the house where I lived, then make a slow turn to the north starting at Marks St. towards the CNR station just before the Fort William Gardens....heading right down Vicker's St and re-joining the main line at the northern end. The picture is taken just east of Marks St......the little grain elevator in the background is a Davidson Elevator (There were a few small Davidson's around the Lakehead including one on Hardisty St. which is now Boles Feed). To put this all in perspective the photo below shows Arthur Square on the corner of Marks and Arthur St. which is the exact location of the little Davidson Elevator.....there were many other small businesses in the area as well.<br />
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<b>Continuing on</b> with my neighborhood, I was quite a Roy Rogers fanatic as you can see. At this young age and as I stood in the back yard of our brand new house on Arthur St. there was nothing to be seen between Franklin and Selkirk....everyone was just starting to do their landscaping, garage building etc.</div>
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<b>Here is our house</b>, how it looked in about 1954....my kid sister is leaning out the window as I stood on the train tracks across the street and took this picture. Try to stand on Arthur St. on this spot today and you'd be run over. My dad's mint refurbished wreck 1952 Chevrolet midnight blue, parked in front of our home. If you go by there today, nothing much of the house has changed.</div>
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<b>In the last two pictures</b> taken from our doorstep facing north, you can see the train tracks across the street as well as a good view of the south side of St. Joseph's Boarding School as it was called then. In the distance in the black and white photo to the right was St. Patrick's high school where I went for 3 more years after Selkirk High and where I met my future wife.<br />
With my dad being the body shop manager of Kam Motors, he was able to fix a few wrecks for himself, but the '57 and '58 Chevrolet's you see below were actually company cars....the managers would get a new car to drive in the day...soon to end when the 1960's came along. Oh, by the way, that's my little sister Daryle sitting on the hood of the '57.....she wasn't quite 5 years old.<br />
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DaveDave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-91432132929119592072021-07-25T00:03:00.001-04:002021-07-25T14:32:01.741-04:00The Battle with the Fence at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Race Track in the 1950's in our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario...<p> This is one of my favourites that I decided to re-post. This is my first and only re-post which was originally shown about 3 years ago...enjoy again!<br /></p><p>The photos here may have been the best of the best when it came to keeping the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition carpenters in gainful employment during the 1950's. The wooden fence was to keep non paying cheapskate fans from viewing the unprecedented dirt racing excitement for free. The fence was built without even an eye width crack in between the boards and I had heard that even knot holes were covered with an additional piece of wood.<br />
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However, this didn't stop the jalopy jockeys from helping the non paying customers to a free show by continually cleaning out yards and yards of fence. Initially there was just a wooden fence beside the track. Along Northern Ave., and just outside the wooden part was a wire fence with a barbed wire top.....The fair folks weren't fooling around when it came to discouraging free viewing.<br />
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Obviously that didn't deter the stock car pilots from tearing up most of the fence, so the fairgrounds opted for wooden beams all round the track, just inside the stockade. Some people thought they were only railroad ties, but closely scrutinizing some of these photos, the wooden "rub rail" as we called it was more like 12" X 12" beams....well, maybe some of it was RR ties.<br />
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As you can see in this first photo, Bill Kruse driving the #41 Bolduc Tire car very systematically took out about 20 feet of wooden fence, around turn #2 along Northern Ave. Here it doesn't look like there was much of a rub rail, but you will see in some of the following 28 photos that there was a very heavy duty rub rail installed as early as 1953.<br />
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Here is a 1953 newspaper clipping on the problem. The problematic fence destruction at the CLE track never actually ended until the very last race was held here in 1966. <i><b>Be sure to click on all the photos once or twice to get a full screen size rendition of all the photos.</b></i><br />
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In the picture to the right Louis Tocheri #19 did his share of fence destruction while the fans outside the barricade jumped for joy, as there was a huge gap in the fence where they could watch the whole nights events in full colour for FREE.<br />
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On the left you can really see how high the rub rail became early in the 1954 racing season, but it didn't deter #88 Albert Massaro from tearing out a few yards of the track's enclosure.<br />
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Here, Mike Guzzi's #4 is sitting on top of some very large beams of wood....I can't imagine what it would be like to jump up on those rub rails. Hitting a tire on the infield of Riverview Raceway was a hard enough hit in the day.<br />
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In this photo we have Jerry Whittaker #75 and a very rare photo of Tom Dow's black and white #2 car mixing it up coming out of turn 4 and heading towards the grandstand stretch.....again the beams here are quite large, but sort of protected some of the fence on the west side of the track. <br />
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Barry Kettering is sitting on the side bar of his #47 "Bud's Thing" race car with a member of his pit crew bent over being sure that Barry was OK after removing over 70 feet of fence and sitting on top of the rub rail. The rest of the boys are wondering how to get it off the high wooden rub rail. On the back of Barry's car it reads "Bass Ackwards"....do you remember that saying? .....and on the top above the back window it says "Royal Triton Motor Oil".<br />
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Jim Manduca #73 had his share of fence removal as well. Read this post right to the end to see the best story yet with Jim involved. As you can see there is quite a bit of fence gone here and also the barbed wire didn't stop anyone from standing on top of the wire fence in the background, and the guys on their truck roof now have a direct view of the whole race track.<br />
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In this photo the #21 driver is unknown, the #12 car was the Deluxe Flower Shop deuce coupe driven by Cye Kehoe, and just about to rip through the fence and into what was known as the cattle barns on turn 1 on our half mile CLE track is non other than Ed Cusson's #13 car. The barns nicely curved along turn 1 and were a target for may jalopy in the day.<br />
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This is a great photo of John Stad's #6 car just inches away from being a river rat. The angle of the track was such that if you left the track between turn 3 and 4, this is where you would end up. Many jalopies met their demise on this corner. Interestingly in the background you can see the old CLE walking bridge that would lead to the parking lot and the midway during fair week. Below is Barry Ketterings cute little '32 Ford 5W coupe "Bud's Thing" with its nose into the river at a night time race meet at about the same spot as John Stad's car above......but Barry had some help from a higher source and had it proudly displayed on the back bumper of his little coupe....It stated "In God We Trust".... It must have helped because his little #47 never did go all the way in....they were able to get it out of the river and into the next race.<br />
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Another picture showing the CLE Coliseum in the background. This is #35 car driven by Don Deacon sitting high and dry atop the famed rub rail we talked about so much on this post. Check out the size of that front bumper protecting the fragile radiator.<br />
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Yet another 50 feet of fence down.....truly I would have hated to be the carpenter or even one of a crew of carpenters to have to repair this fence every single week. This is the #60 car driven by Don Marsh......and as we know, so many of these wonderful little pieces of hot rod material were destroyed. The '32 Ford coupe was and still is today the most quintessential piece of hot rod material ever made by any manufacturer.<i><b> Click twice to enlarge all photos.</b></i><br />
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Now look at this unidentified jalopy literally hopping over the rub rail and wiping out another 50 feet of fence.... "How did I do that?" he said, and "Geez, I parked my vehicle right there before the races too.....Oh Nooo."<br />
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Here again and below is Jim Manduca in his #73 Ford coupe after about a 200 foot new gap in the CLE fence.....The ecstatic fans on the other side of the fence can watch the race for free now and they won't even have to stand on the bus turnaround shelter. The scenery in the background is of course the bus terminal between Fort William and Port Arthur on Fort William Road....remember transferring buses between the twin cities there? The fair board is sure missing a ton of revenue here again.<br />
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#79 was Murray Simmons, and the next two photos of Murray's cars were basically taken at the same time but one from track side and one from the other side. You can see how dangerous the wooden posts would be splintering like this. One of the most serious accidents that happened at the CLE track was to Wes Inkster in about 1957. He lost an eye due to wood fragments and had many health issues later due to his accident.</div>
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Malcolm Galbraith is seen here on the right in his little #35 '32 Ford 3W coupe. It almost looks like the little jalopy had a mind of its own and just wanted to jump the rub rail and tear down a long length of fence. This again is along Northern Ave and a new home is being built there....obviously no complaints about the dirt and noise had yet been heard.<br />
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Here is the best photo of the post in my opinion. It is Jim Manduca again in the ditch as he just entered the #3 turn, and guess what.....yes you did, another 30 feet of fence is down....but scroll down and LOOK at the next photo for the detail to see what or who is in the tree that was narrowly missed by Jim.<br />
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Click on the clip to read it better.... Hope you enjoyed this post...and hope you're all having a great summer. Dave.Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-29943580690839425212020-12-22T23:17:00.004-05:002021-01-26T14:13:53.775-05:00Retro Christmases....Wishing for Simpler Times in North America this Christmas....<p></p><p></p><p>Merry Christmas and another year has almost passed and with most of us, we want it gone. </p><p>Here we go again, no excuses, but its been ages since I've had a post here, spending too much time on my personal Facebook page...but that's ok. </p><p>With Covid-19 upon us, it's difficult to get into the swing of anything, albeit old or new. We have to get over the doldrums and carry on with our lives the best way we know how. <br /></p><p> OK...Here we go. This first photo is an annual thing for me for the last 11 years. I take an old magazine cover and make some "Fake News" ....you know the words as you've heard them before.😂</p><p>I always look for a cover with Christmas, winter and old cars. This was an old POST magazine cover from 1946.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKXFp_77IvdIf3lKodK96NHrYH54V_2__YcTUVyyMQGWFSytIpag0A0qTXOARGHkb3mlzXaCjZAmdcK5kxs4s86haNE4K_NWi0CpGw5aM8gx9sMQEGlFh8IiwHq2mB1RFau6R-hSpXtOa/s800/1+-+1946_12_21+edit+HRandJ+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="627" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKXFp_77IvdIf3lKodK96NHrYH54V_2__YcTUVyyMQGWFSytIpag0A0qTXOARGHkb3mlzXaCjZAmdcK5kxs4s86haNE4K_NWi0CpGw5aM8gx9sMQEGlFh8IiwHq2mB1RFau6R-hSpXtOa/s16000/1+-+1946_12_21+edit+HRandJ+2.jpg" /></a></div><p> </p><p>Here in Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario (now Thunder Bay) we see these wintry days often....well, more often than we want to I think, but snow and Christmas always seem to go hand in hand up here north of Lake Superior. In fact tonight and tomorrow we are in for a doozer of a storm which will leave us looking a lot worse than in this Christmas season photo which could have been taken from anywhere in the northern snow belt in Canada or the USA.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjm048Yr1Zgf54pYF6qwak0Xbvhf_zwit5ktJv08lqFB9zCFHvWaZWt3MHASA0YmSsbYVNJsPqdhKYKFF3UmrW2umJr2q8mTzaqy4XivksKO43HttxGkR5IjuKN92_q1hNct0c3xZF9IyO/s640/2+-+1950s+Winter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjm048Yr1Zgf54pYF6qwak0Xbvhf_zwit5ktJv08lqFB9zCFHvWaZWt3MHASA0YmSsbYVNJsPqdhKYKFF3UmrW2umJr2q8mTzaqy4XivksKO43HttxGkR5IjuKN92_q1hNct0c3xZF9IyO/w640-h640/2+-+1950s+Winter.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>The next few photos were so typical at Christmas in the 1950's pretty much anywhere in Canada or the USA. They are just a joy to view....even the two Summer looking Christmas photos from California and Nevada.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqC66Em0eBPf6L-6M_0zOUJR6-u26re_8xp6i8AD_2_DKi9MPUV0ZCEjJGYKj-G4kDmAgjDEPhDzXNFDHaoKbhkT10hP21cQqAwTWXhmqWp4f8tEuNI5hdHqJ90qoPsaEMJ5tnDtii3Une/s1217/3+-+Anytown+Christmas+US+or+Canada.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1217" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqC66Em0eBPf6L-6M_0zOUJR6-u26re_8xp6i8AD_2_DKi9MPUV0ZCEjJGYKj-G4kDmAgjDEPhDzXNFDHaoKbhkT10hP21cQqAwTWXhmqWp4f8tEuNI5hdHqJ90qoPsaEMJ5tnDtii3Une/w640-h410/3+-+Anytown+Christmas+US+or+Canada.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9W_Q0hm6WtFfBe2WQ_j3DDj7vU3_r_Hv1sMiANw5ULENlwZCz5Z1mWLYWlHqKQaiCTgUOdSnJKkEZnoBJeXDO5gl5g7KxxLkyWp-sweghv1gg7O1xK-G_2bO_paGFhgkleSvkAqDzvDs/s1405/4+-+Cali+Christmas.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1405" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy9W_Q0hm6WtFfBe2WQ_j3DDj7vU3_r_Hv1sMiANw5ULENlwZCz5Z1mWLYWlHqKQaiCTgUOdSnJKkEZnoBJeXDO5gl5g7KxxLkyWp-sweghv1gg7O1xK-G_2bO_paGFhgkleSvkAqDzvDs/w640-h394/4+-+Cali+Christmas.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogpbedESzfKvBWEMUMOdEzh5QcH_vL1bRT-l2_z1mrNbtn5-A1KFeAXosQXRqwSYrXpdlJ4RN0qhHp1l2NDVkUTqrQKjTV5xmLC1-K1ten87qD6TWs2np0dkvzLKAAK0_R6n8amfN3DUa/s2048/5+-+Fremont-Street-Los-Vegas-C-1958_0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="429" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgogpbedESzfKvBWEMUMOdEzh5QcH_vL1bRT-l2_z1mrNbtn5-A1KFeAXosQXRqwSYrXpdlJ4RN0qhHp1l2NDVkUTqrQKjTV5xmLC1-K1ten87qD6TWs2np0dkvzLKAAK0_R6n8amfN3DUa/w640-h429/5+-+Fremont-Street-Los-Vegas-C-1958_0.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p>I love the type of art that you see in the next picture. It is a very retro US Tire advertisement showing the Winter months and the need for good snow tires in our cold and slippery winters.<br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9AbuNfV73iurwl2XYBQnH0TMOQE2VSeoeJ4qTKzh-xloFKvCgOoj62amLpEkilsUsiowb21l4-bjK6PA28c-Ky8801ckrP1CsuzBYuaKQjEyJnlBffFUcvX9zajISJqA69ymZNIockKd/s864/6+-+Suburban+art.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="864" data-original-width="675" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi9AbuNfV73iurwl2XYBQnH0TMOQE2VSeoeJ4qTKzh-xloFKvCgOoj62amLpEkilsUsiowb21l4-bjK6PA28c-Ky8801ckrP1CsuzBYuaKQjEyJnlBffFUcvX9zajISJqA69ymZNIockKd/w500-h640/6+-+Suburban+art.jpg" width="500" /></a></p><p></p><p>The happy mailman in this photo is just like the guys delivering for Amazon in today's world.</p><p><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc">"Neither snow nor rain
nor heat nor gloom of night stops</span></span><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn"><span class="hgKElc"> these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds". While the <b>Post Office</b> has no official motto, the popular belief that it does is a tribute to all postal workers.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnDWBd-Ulf-Ggdlx27PZlN4jyA4sy-CrBgbe2yT2FBgXd4Q2hQpbKa3zfsuUbDShyphenhyphenaNvPRkCf7dVvsu7BJEVuZFfw7KOHtP_IfBz8530cx91QKH8ebg_Swa3pFjdJuwcQbEGMw61BO8ok/s567/6b+-Amazon+postie.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="430" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjnDWBd-Ulf-Ggdlx27PZlN4jyA4sy-CrBgbe2yT2FBgXd4Q2hQpbKa3zfsuUbDShyphenhyphenaNvPRkCf7dVvsu7BJEVuZFfw7KOHtP_IfBz8530cx91QKH8ebg_Swa3pFjdJuwcQbEGMw61BO8ok/w486-h640/6b+-Amazon+postie.jpg" width="486" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Colourful advertising like this was seen in many magazines such as POST or LIFE. People actually frame them mainly because of their artistic value.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsVwJSEM_KbTABslyOjWDbsZwnWnflhhjHkboLEWMcalf1u1-o0IpPMVLWeNLtsDAPGSU4nk7ceJeoFxh4n1BlQCSqYMHOAbECJLoIbd9cw-xYeLGv9eL8OVC8eyX9s55DKHWvArGTwYwO/s500/7+-+7up.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="500" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsVwJSEM_KbTABslyOjWDbsZwnWnflhhjHkboLEWMcalf1u1-o0IpPMVLWeNLtsDAPGSU4nk7ceJeoFxh4n1BlQCSqYMHOAbECJLoIbd9cw-xYeLGv9eL8OVC8eyX9s55DKHWvArGTwYwO/w640-h614/7+-+7up.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Kids back in the middle of the 20th century always looked forward to Christmas catalogs this time of year such as Simpsons Sears or Eatons or Kresge's or Woolworths. Here's a cover of one of Woolworth's 5 and dime store catalogs, with a teaser of what the old stores looked like inside.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsauftlGjUam6fQbI0ikokZobF26h1Do-JvfmMCu1Q99G5ggkkWpltI19ODqa8bo_s9r8fX8RtYJFy9WuVTB0-eAbANDYRrEwFO8zC-LAH4-7WP9TLCADQSpqTEYxdyUlkwEaWcrpzzng/s766/8+-+Woolworhs+1952.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="541" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsauftlGjUam6fQbI0ikokZobF26h1Do-JvfmMCu1Q99G5ggkkWpltI19ODqa8bo_s9r8fX8RtYJFy9WuVTB0-eAbANDYRrEwFO8zC-LAH4-7WP9TLCADQSpqTEYxdyUlkwEaWcrpzzng/s320/8+-+Woolworhs+1952.jpg" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSer6eiss7HWoNBX9F3j_UQnet_mq_O33QmQRXrPcH-8D7I0yyt_qKZUvbHORkOTOKe5We9A64MgSWilrG0_0Auga8-7AP4eBlXUiudbdKIjXSKn4-z4kWbSap2hzxapV2bVnA5W74TBK/s1202/9+-+.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="1202" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSer6eiss7HWoNBX9F3j_UQnet_mq_O33QmQRXrPcH-8D7I0yyt_qKZUvbHORkOTOKe5We9A64MgSWilrG0_0Auga8-7AP4eBlXUiudbdKIjXSKn4-z4kWbSap2hzxapV2bVnA5W74TBK/w400-h261/9+-+.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our five and dime Woolworth's<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Happy Days, always a family favourite, of which I still watch re-runs still gives me joy to see and remember what family life was all about......loving, giving, and enjoying being together. That's the toughest part this Christmas of Covid-19, as many families are trying to keep each other safe and well. We are such social beings that we crave the company of our family members, friends and acquaintances. Better days are coming back...just don't be too impatient.😌<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymWN9A_0Y_6fNaWwE1R97Uh11STUcS-0nbiWpyWpyKdDqVvbx3LCE55KNQ-fgl00iEJPqvvqVSOQbV3RzhUz6j3RYHV1fNcX23W90xAgWheB3H4lrL_YzmU7ptweDLOTU1gMN2nOdjULP/s495/10+-+happy+days+christmas_filtered.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="363" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhymWN9A_0Y_6fNaWwE1R97Uh11STUcS-0nbiWpyWpyKdDqVvbx3LCE55KNQ-fgl00iEJPqvvqVSOQbV3RzhUz6j3RYHV1fNcX23W90xAgWheB3H4lrL_YzmU7ptweDLOTU1gMN2nOdjULP/w469-h640/10+-+happy+days+christmas_filtered.jpg" width="469" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>This final picture I made up and edited for my personal Facebook page and wanted to end this post with it here. </p><p>My family's wish to all of you firstly is to remember the reason for the Christmas Season. Be kind and loving to each other. Look after your wise elderly family members. </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Myself and my entire family wish a Very Merry Christmas 2020 to you and yours. Stay safe and well. 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CLE grounds in front of the old grandstand and the old judges stand. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>This is very close to the spot on the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition
grounds where we held our free 130th anniversary bash this past Sunday,
August 2nd 2020 with fabulous live music and a spectacular fireworks
display with major sponsors Halfway Motors and others such as Rebel
Spirit Band, Private Eyes Band, Pyro Boyz Fireworks, The United
Commercial Travelers handling all the parking and security, Tbaytel,
Java Hut, The Chronicle Journal and Al's Sewage. </div><div><br /> </div><div>As a member of
the committee, myself and all the committee members with the CLE Board
of Directors wish to thank all of our sponsors for their incredible
support as well as all the volunteers who gave their time to help in any
way possible including our kids count accepting donations. We couldn't
have done this without all of you and we are so grateful for your
participation in the best Covid-19 event held in Thunder Bay this year.
We also want to thank all those who came to enjoy this event and
honking their horns in appreciation of the bands playing. It will be an
evening we will remember forever.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvuFtqvFtM7C5TwpwrbRqFmbaGOR4Fq3HHhg3u7nnXO1MxWoEm4zxMKC7GowhRbilM2zHciEUKe0xaAhTcw-kiSvDt_xOPYyNM0fhuesv9aSUY9uwricu90fuRw4CXE3RXGskFVbjrDcvh/s1920/CLE+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="1920" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvuFtqvFtM7C5TwpwrbRqFmbaGOR4Fq3HHhg3u7nnXO1MxWoEm4zxMKC7GowhRbilM2zHciEUKe0xaAhTcw-kiSvDt_xOPYyNM0fhuesv9aSUY9uwricu90fuRw4CXE3RXGskFVbjrDcvh/s640/CLE+photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-59881870974623102112020-07-22T00:02:00.000-04:002020-07-22T00:06:02.551-04:00A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THIS AUGUST 2nd, 2020....rain date Aug. 3rd<div class="" dir="auto">
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Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-49825919375118374402020-04-28T00:22:00.004-04:002021-06-26T21:50:45.765-04:00Winter 2020 Self Isolation 1:25 Scale Diorama Project with some Fort William and Port Arthur History<b>Finally</b> after many months I've put together a completely different kind of post. This is my COVID-19 isolation project....no I don't have it, just being careful and smart. We all know we're in this together and are trying to occupy our time doing what we enjoy the most.<br />
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Before I show you the project photos, there is a little history I want to talk about here.<br />
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Years back there used to be an oil refinery on McKellar Island that some of us may remember as The Husky Oil Refinery, but before that, and one of the photos will explain, the refinery was called Riverlake Oil Refinery. There is history about that on the Internet, but the name that I was drawn to was Riverlake Oil, or "RO". In the 1950's there was a sign in the pit area at the old Canadian Lakehead Exhibition race track that just read "RO". Riverlake Oil was run by McEwen Fuels Petroleum Distributors in the 1950s until Riverlake was taken over by Husky.<br />
This peaked my interest, and so I began a research project which culminated in building an old service station model in 1:25 scale of a Riverlake Oil station which actually never existed.<br />
Interested yet? Well, to add to the fictitious service station I also added a "What If" to the project. "What if" the Lakehead Stock Car Club would have bought that old station and converted it into a LSCC Clubhouse.<br />
So that's it. Over the last 5 months I built the scale building and as many of the local race cars from the 1950s that would fit on the diorama. There are quite a few photos and at the end there are pictures of the models by themselves with a corresponding photo of the real jalopy that raced here at the CLE in the 1950's. I tried to create as much realism as possible. A neighbor and good friend of mine Karl Schmidt supplied me with all the scale lumber that I needed, as he used to have a similar scale outside model railroad.<br />
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We start off with what I think are the most realistic two photos in the group, and the others photos are how the project was put together. <u> <b><i>Also you can click on each picture in this entire post to enlarge screen size.</i></b></u><br />
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All the posters and wall hangings are computer generated and miniaturized, and all the license plates are Ontario plates and all before 1956.<br />
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Here is a little write-up on the Riverlake - Husky thing that may be interesting to you, as well as all the appropriate logos.<br />
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This first photo shows the front of the RO service station with worn signage, including a nice old Ford V8 sign, some beat up old gas pumps, a coke machine and one guy carrying an old fuel container and another guy changing the tire on Tom Dow's car, as well as a local Bourke's Drug Store sign on the side of the building which looks painted and aged. I tried to make everything look very busy.</div>
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Now back to basics - The initial construction was done using scale rough ceder lumber such as 2 x 4's, 2 x 6's, beams and ship lap lumber. The building was finished first, then mounted on a base to do the scenery, using screened beach sand and other model railroad greenery, flowers weeds etc.<br />
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The first thing I totally completed right up to weathering was the outhouse. It was a practice project that I started before I began the initial garage building. To get the wood to instantly look old, I used a bottle of water with 1 tbsp of India ink. after it dried it look just like barn board.<br />
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Here it's starting to look old. The tiny hinges about 1/2 the size of my baby finger I found on Amazon and they actually came from Holland....free shipped and about $5. for more than I needed.<br />
This is the rear of the building with a little hatch to access the attic, and scrap-booking corrugated paper painted silver and weathered to look like a tin roof overhang.<br />
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Here's how the front looked with the weathered RO signs and the "new" Lakehead Stock Car Club sign. No gas pumps were done yet.<br />
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The weathering was almost completed here and the wooden flooring is computer generated from real old flooring then printed out on satin photo paper. </div>
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Here, a two inch long Go Kart on a working stand....many of the stock car jockeys from the 1950s also raced their Go Karts at the Intercity Parking lot<br />
Also I'm making little shelving, workbenches etc out of light balsa wood and trying to be creative with old paint cans and oil cans. Also, a junkyard for the rear of the building made up of many old model car parts, glued together, rusted out and weathered. You will see more when everything is installed in the Clubhouse. <br />
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Everything in model kits are basically just white, so everything has to be painted. I use a huge lighted magnifying glass to the detail.<br />
The Oxy-Acetylene tanks come in kits but have to be painted and detailed. Fine red and green wire make the hoses. The wood stove is made from a wooden ball and a pop cap plus small wood pieces and the chimney is a bendy straw.<br />
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This is the more detailed back of the building with everything now installed including the outhouse, signs, pop crates, trees bushes and even some racoons in the garbage cans. <br />
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These next two photos show the detail local Coca Cola sign...computer generated and thinned out to tissue paper consistency. Then glued to the shiplap. <br />
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This one shows some outside detail including a hydro meter and tap and garden hose. The next few shows the interior in its final stages with everything in place. Everything is glued in except the vehicles. They can easily be changed around.<br />
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There are a number of Ontario era perfect license plates on both of the doors that swing out like barn doors.<br />
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Here's a full overhead shot....<br />
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These last three collage photographs show each of the models in 1:25 scale on either side of an actual photo of the real cars<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you enjoyed all the photographs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before ending this post, Rosemary and I would like to thank all our front line workers including both my daughters-in-law doing their best looking after all of us during these difficult times. We must keep our social distancing to protect us and our loved ones during the COVID-19 Pandemic.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take good care of yourselves and anyone else that you can. We WILL get through this together. Dave</span></span>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-4156126254261158842019-12-22T22:53:00.000-05:002019-12-22T23:13:25.933-05:00A Christmas Card and Some Christmas Memories from the Fabulous '50's and "60'sA Very Merry Christmas to Everyone and of course I'm sorry for not being diligent with my posts. No excuses...just promises to get to more. This is just a little Christmas Memory post from younger years, with a Christmas card for all and a big hello and thank you to my Facebook friends as well.<br />
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The next photo here is an annual thing I do and that is to create a tongue in cheek "Hot Rods and Jalopies" magazine cover. I guess it's wishful thinking that I could publish a magazine, but at least I have covers. I have done one every year for the past 10 years and they can be found around Christmastime posts. The nice police officer was assisting the pretty young lady by adding a dime to the meter so she wouldn't get a ticket. I would have done the same thing. 😄<br />
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Christmas is always a time for gift giving and this photo taken in the early 1960's of a random young man in a hobby shop reminded me of myself. I rarely bought a Christmas gift for anyone I knew from a model hobby shop, but if I got any cash for Christmas in the 1950's, off I would head to Lil's Hobby Lobby to their original store on south Franklin St. here in Fort William, near our home, where a model car of some sort would be purchased, and in the day would be about .98 cents to $1.49.<br />
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I received this very toy below when I was about 12 years old and any kid would utter shouts of joy if he received one under his Christmas tree.<br />
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Another favourite that I received in those days was Tinkertoy. That was the so called gaming device of the times.<br />
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A memory many of us may have isn't so much that of easy peel Mandarin oranges, but the fact that they came in wooden boxes and all the way from Japan. There's an old saying that people that didn't have much would save the green wrapping paper to used for toilet paper. To me it was all rumors. LOL<br />
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These two following advertisements came from a 1952 Christmas edition of Motors Magazine. Click on them to enlarge.<br />
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Here is the 1956 Christmas editition of Chilton's Motor Age magazine with great graphics, however Santa sure looked like an elf beside the mechanic.<br />
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Christmas can't go by without a 1940's shot of Laurel and Hardy after having a terrible day trying to sell Christmas trees....they are momentarily not speaking to each other..... another LOL. These guys were the best. <br />
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The final entry here is of an old book I found with my old magazines that was likely my own from 1952. All that was left is the cover, but it was a Christmas shopping catalog that Woolworth's did put out for their customers.<br />
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Once More - A Very Merry Christmas to all our friends and followers....and one final word for the holiday season.....<br />
DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE - and as they used to say, the life you save may be your very own.Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-48281912279380650752019-11-10T18:11:00.000-05:002019-11-10T18:14:04.926-05:00"ALL GAVE SOME, BUT SOME GAVE ALL"....Remembrance Day in Thunder Bay, Ontario - Monday Nov. 11 2019....<h3 class="post-title entry-title">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">This 2013 post is more relevant today in my mind and feel it needs to be seen again.</span></span></h3>
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We only have a few veterans left from the second world war and none from
the first world war so if you encounter a veteran be sure to thank him
or her for their sacrifice so that we may enjoy the freedom we have
today. "All gave some, but some gave all!"<br />
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The first world war, "A WAR TO END ALL WARS" was sadly not enough of an
impact on Canada and its allies to actually make it such, as on Sept 11,
1939, Canada again declares war.<br />
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Below are two articles firstly from the Port Arthur daily news and
another article from a Fort William newspaper both printed in August of
1914. If you click once or twice on these and all the other pictures,
they can be read and seen in better resolution.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Canadian Soldiers in the trenches....would you want to be there?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"THEY DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"A different 9-11 back in 1939"</span></td></tr>
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This is an incredible photo of the Algonquin Regiment leaving Port
Arthur, Ontario on June 4th 1941. In the background is a steam engine
at the Port Arthur Canadian Pacific Railroad station torn down many
years ago and today, Water Street near Marina Park runs right through
this property. Off to the left in a gold square is the Hydro
sub-station which still exists today as seen in the next photo. Look
hard and you may recognize someone you love....also look at those young
faces heading off to fight for our freedom. <b><i><u>Click on photo for a closer look!</u></i></b><br />
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The Hydro sub-station as seen today.<br />
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The following picture is an unknown regiment. They are gathered to
march in McKellar Park. McKellar Park's present location is where
McKellar Park school is today, just to the north of the Fort William
Curling Club...be sure to look at the rest of the photos below. These
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When I was in sea cadets back in the 1950's we would shoot these in
rifle range at the old Fort William Armory which would be located to
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These rifles weighed 8.8 lbs...so imagine carrying one of these around
on parade or in the battle field with all the other gear a soldier would
have to wear. I could barely lift it to take one shot!</div>
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This McKellar Park field was used for local baseball, football, and was
the starting point for many a Fort William Parade. Off in the distance
with a gold square is the Sweet Caporal score board for the sports
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Below is an old Sweet Caporal cigarette package which actually displayed
WWII planes so as to help identify what you may see flying overhead.
My father(still living today at 94 years) was a Sergeant in the Canadian
Army then and stationed in Victoria, BC. where they were guarding the
west coast after Pearl Harbor was bombed. They thought the Japanese
were going to do the same to Canadian Naval bases along the coast.
While there, he also taught an aircraft recognition course.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a colored picture of a Sweet Caporal Cigarettes scoreboard.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THE LEE-ENFIELD BRITISH BOLD ACTION RIFLE.</td></tr>
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If you want more data on the Lee-Enfield, you can go to Wikipedia here then come back to view the rest- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Enfield</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">You can also view other years of Remembrance Day posts with some incredible local photos on this blog as follows</span> - </div>
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2009 - <a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2009/11/lest-we-forgetremembrance-day-november.html">http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2009/11/lest-we-forgetremembrance-day-november.html</a></div>
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Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-32561491087567659452019-10-08T22:14:00.000-04:002019-10-08T22:16:37.275-04:00Streetcars and Advertising from The Civic/Electric Railway era in our hometowns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario<b>Yes....I'm still here with the Hot Rods and Jalopies Facebook page.</b> Many apologies for being so preoccupied with other things that I have been negligent in my writings here on my blog. Myself and my family have had a very busy summer....but no more excuses...I have a new post for today which I have been working on on and off during the summer months.<br />
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My good friend <b>Des Stolz</b> is also an eclectic collector and like myself was lucky enough through the years to find some very interesting and valuable items that stimulate the mind and the memory.<br />
If you are old enough to remember, many buses and streetcars through the years used advertising which were displayed inside to help with the cost of running bus and streetcar services. Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario was no exception. The colorful streetcar generation and I mean the rail type, not the trolley Brill bus generation with rubber tires, had the most diverse and and vivid advertising considering that the printing press and lithograph were the only means to reproduce colored advertising in that era. The rubber tired electric trolley buses were introduced in our home towns in 1947 and sadly the electric rail streetcars stopped carrying passengers in 1948. Both Fort William and Port Arthur until amalgamation ran their own civic/electric railway independently of each other.<br />
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This post is not a transportation history but mainly about our street railway era. It begins with a series of electric railway photos from my own collection which I purchased on-line quite a few years ago now (a few of which have been on this site before). These photos were all taken in 1941, and edited for this blog. Following that will be photos from Des Stolz electric railway advertising days collection for you to enjoy. Be sure to click on each photo for a nice screen size view then return to the photos and continue right to the end.<br />
All the streetcar photos are titled and all photos are copyright.<br />
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This one also shows the <b>J.M. McCartney</b> store with the very famous clock below it, Mahon Electric, the <b>Woolworth's</b> and <b>Kresge's</b> five and dime stores, as well as a number of era motor vehicles in what used to be Fort William's bustling downtown.<br />
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Port Arthur and Fort William painted their trolley's different colors in the day, but many ran in both cities, so both colors of Trolley's were seen everywhere. Vividly in view was Quinlan's and the F.W. Woolworth five and dime store, the Prince Arthur Hotel, the Pagoda and the head and chest of our famous Sleeping Giant, as well as what looks like a Lincoln beside the streetcar and a Model A Ford sedan waiting for the light.</div>
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The Chapples Store (Grain Exchange Building) was the anchor store for the Fort William downtown area. The building does still exist today, but inside a mall called Victoriaville.<br />
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Many a family excursion headed out across the swing bridge and down Mission road to Chippewa Park for a picnic, kids rides and the zoo, for many who couldn't afford a car in the day.<br />
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Other family excursions also headed north on Memorial Avenue in Port Arthur to go to Boulevard Lake for a swim and/or picnic or to Current River Park for a family day or the Casino Dine and Dance near the Current River Dam. <br />
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The Car Barns or Transit sheds in Port Arthur were located at the foot of Van Horne Street on Water Street where the recycle depot is today. The next three photos were all taken at the Port Arthur Sheds. </div>
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The advertising was viewed by passengers while riding the Trolleys....some as shown here.<br />
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The first group of advertising cards are likely from the 1920's and show a few companies that are still in business today such as Wrigley's and Buckley's. The Chevrolet dealership was handled by the Badanai family for many years in Fort William and Port Arthur, but in the 1920's, Roach and Irwin ran the dealership in Fort William and Ernest Parker in Port Arthur.<br />
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Just by looking at some of these advertising cards, you can guess that most were from the 1920's and 1930's<br />
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In this group as well as just above some of the same companies as mentioned are still in business almost 100 years later. Also there are two more beautiful Roach & Irwin and Ernest Parker Chevrolet ads. The art work is spectacular.<br />
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Another local one is shown in this group. The <b>Scollie's Ice Cream</b> ad with the phone number of S.128. Scollies had a few different locations in Fort William....the first being <b>"Scollie's Locker</b> <b>Service"</b> which was located on Catherine Street in Fort William. I remember my parents sending me there to pick up some fresh meat back in the day.<br />
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My favourite poster of the lot is this <b>Sellers & Jones Limited</b>. This poster brought back a huge memory of my father telling me that the <b>Kam Motors</b> building which was on Leith Street(the building is still there) was once called <b>Sellers and Jones</b>. Up until I started this blog and communicating with other historians from our area I had never seen an advertisement or photo of <b>Sellers and Jones</b> until this advertisement in <b>Des Stolz</b> collection turned up and also a photo below which was on the Facebook page Thunder Bay Then and Now. Obviously this was very exciting for me to see.<br />
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Thanks to <b>Richard Mark</b>...Thunder Bay Then and Now for finding this great photo of the main portion of the original Kam Motors Limited building. This photo is looking east down Leith St towards the corner of Leith and Simpson St. At the lake end of Leith Street and Hardisty stood a huge Elevator which I can't recall the name of.<br />
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...and this is how the building looks today as Ace Automotive and Diamond-Lacey's Taxi. Both the words <b>"Diamond"</b> and <b>"Lacey's"</b> were always icons in the taxi business back in the day as well as now.<br />
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Many thanks of <b><span style="font-size: small;">Des Stolz</span></b> for letting me photograph his Streetcar Advertising Posters, to the original photographer of the Streetcar photos and to <b>Richard Mark</b> of Thunder Bay Then and Now.<br />
I hope you have taken the time to read the attached stories and view all the photos. Thanks for being loyal fans of The Hot Rods and Jalopies generation blog pages.<br />
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<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-28980728895273628602019-05-03T20:52:00.002-04:002019-05-03T21:49:44.700-04:00Ralph Darling's Service Station 1954 and it's Significance at 906 Victoria Ave in our home town of Fort William, Ontario....Looking back through photos and documents in my archives I had some photos that mentioned Darling's Service and I knew where it was located but the best help was in finding this photo clipping of Darling's Service Station's Grand Opening from a local Facebook page (Sorry I don't recall whose...but thank you). The address at 906 Victoria Ave. has had a plethora of service stations including the most important in my life span as Ray Charles Texaco owned and operated by old friends Ray Defoy and Charlie Miller. But on to this May 22, 1954 clipping that someone saved from our Fort William Times Journal. Those years were extremely significant due to the resurgence of organized Stock Car Racing the year before in 1953 by the Lakehead Stock Car Club. <br />
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Mayor Gordon Carson was the Fort William Mayor of the day, and here we see him cutting the ribbon with Ralph Darling and staff for the grand opening with the old Pilkington Glass building in the background. <br />
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Here is a clipping cut from the main one showing the expertise of the lessee and his staff all under the Texaco Sign. “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star, the big bright Texaco star.” ....remember that one?<br />
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Below is one of or possibly the first Barry Kettering piloted "Bud's Thing" #47 with an unknown person at the front. If you know who this person is, let me know. The tall building in the background is Chapples Ltd and you can read Hurtig Furs on the sign just across Victoria Ave. This is the present day corner of McKellar St. and Victoria Ave. The original name of McKellar St. was John St. which was changed after the amalgamation to Thunder Bay in 1970. The similar photo directly below this is one with the one and only "Bud" Heidrick, and as mentioned, the owner of Darling's Service and the sponsor/owner of the #47 car.<br />
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Here's a fairly recent photo of the old Hurtig Furs building with the light green trim and the new courthouse being built behind the old Chapples building and sitting partially on the old YMCA property. </div>
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This photo of the "Bass Ackward" #47 was taken along what was John St. in the day, now McKellar with a number of old homes which were removed to build Centennial Plaza...this would be the rear portion of the stores originally with a bank building on the corner. The photo to the right shows how the street looks today.<br />
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This one was also taken along McKellar St, with none other than Norm Hogan looking on to the right. In 1957 Norm would then drive the famed #47 himself. Also in the picture on the right behind Norm is the original Fort William Clinic....later to be rebuilt then after that moving in recent years near our new Regional Hospital. Royal Triton Motor Oil was THE racing oil of the day...it was actually purple in colour and was actually endorsed in commercials by Marilyn Monroe. There is much more about Marilyn and Royal Triton in another post here on Hotrods and Jalopies.<br />
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This is how the very spot looks today with the newer Fort William Clinic building in the background now I believe empty. Most of the trees that decorate the above photo are long gone.<br />
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Here's one last photo of Norm Hogan sitting in Barry's car parked a little closer to Victoria Ave. The old home in the background was replaced by the Bank Building on that corner.<br />
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The next phase of this story is the #10 car which was driven by <b>Ross "Pappy" Fowler</b>. Here you can see it parked right in front of Darling's Service. Pappy's #10 car was directly sponsored by Darling's Service, so both the #47 and the #10 cars resided here for a year or two. Pappy drove the #10 car for a couple of years then also a #98 car.<br />
Pappy would later quit racing and be the flagman for a few years as well. When Pappy quit driving the #10 car, it would be taken over by Don Marsh who had tremendous success with his #10.<br />
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While looking at the pictures of Pappy's car here, you can see other landmarks such as Billboard row on the north/east corner of what was called John St. and Victoria Ave. with the YMCA in the background...of course now long gone to accommodate the court house downtown Fort William. <b><i>Be sure to click on all the photos big and small to get them screen size.</i></b><br />
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There have been many tenants in the old Safeway building that was on Victoria Ave., including Canadian Tire.<br />
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Here is the last photo of <b>Pappy Fowler's</b> #10 again on the original corner of Victoria and John St. in Fort William. There was also a small grocery store called Star Fruit and Vegetable Market just a little down the street toward where Victoriaville is today and you can just make out the large Buckingham cigarette sign on the side of that building, and right on the corner a Mr. Bill Smith lived. (Information from Henderson's Directory)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How Darling's looked from the front....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darling's model "B" service truck with R "Pappy" Fowlers name.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How the property looks today....The building is the same structure.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Across the street is the old Safeway/Canadian Tire building...today photo</td></tr>
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<b>Next</b> is an overview of the area to help you recognize the area as it looks today and what was there.<br />
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<b>Finally</b> a huge thank you to the people who took the marvelous photos so that we can spend time reminiscing about our past.......<br />
.....<span style="font-size: large;">“You can trust your car to the man who wears the Star, the big bright Texaco Star” <span style="font-size: small;">It would be nice to have real "service" like we had in the day. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">As once mentioned, I don't do as many posts as I used to do, but they are much longer with more story content....hope you enjoyed this post. thanks, Dave</span></span><br />
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<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-39899261706493853992019-03-06T23:43:00.001-05:002019-03-09T19:50:02.860-05:00113-119 Leith St., 234 Park St., Destroying Vintage Cars? and The Powder Puff Girls in our Home Towns of Fort William and Port ArthurI am off to a great start in the last few days doing posts for my own facebook page and the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Memories facebook page, but MOST importantly my premier site HR&J desperately needed this post that I have been working on for quite awhile....it is fairly lengthy but interesting with 25 photos.<br />
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<b>The first photo here is extremely interesting.</b> The photo actually came from<b> Richard Mark's FB page</b> and as soon as I saw it I instantly knew what it was. Sellers and Jones was an automotive dealership back in the late 1910's and into the 1920's. I vaguely remember my father telling me a bit about the history of the original Kam Motors Limited building on Leith St., and the words Sellers and Jones had come to mind. Incredibly the tall part of this building still exists to this very day, and through the years it was doubled in size by getting rid of the Sellers and Jones old wood tire store structure and adding an identical structure to the west of the original, making the address 113-119 Leith St. That address is the same today. The cars you see in the photos are likely 1918 Studebakers, or maybe Essex, or maybe Willys-Knight....it is truly very difficult to tell as many looked so much the same near the end of the Brass era.<br />
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However, before this became Kam Motors Limited, it went through another era from which there are no photographs or at least none found as yet. I do have a few old invoices that tell their own stories as you will see.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Caption: 113-119 Leith Street, Fort William Ontario. At the very end was a large Elevator and where the street lights are is Simpson St.</span></td></tr>
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This is how the modern building looks recently and you can still count 6 large windows across the structure, and 3 across the old photo above, because as I mentioned, the building was doubled in size. The only difference in the new photo to an actual today photo would be that the old Palace confectionery building still stands down at the corner of Leith and Simpson St. That spot is a Used Truck dealer now.<br />
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OK...here we go...If you click on this 1927 Grain Port Motors Limited "Ford" Dealership invoice it oddly reads 113-119 Leith St. as a Fort William address with a phone number of S.1000. Therefore Grain Port Motors occupied this space for awhile in and around 1927.<br />
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Grain Port Motors claim to fame was that it was likely a sponsor of sorts in the day for the famed local race car "The King's Special" a story about this car was written on these pages some time ago.<br />
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Below is a close-up of whats called a Moto Meter and sometimes called a Motor Meter, vividly displaying Grain Port Motors, Fort William and Port Arthur.<br />
The photo next to it is none other than Frank Colosimo driving the "King's Special" here in the 1920's, sporting the Moto Meter shown below from the restored Kings Special.<br />
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So here is a pretty fuzzy photo of what Kam Motors looked like after Grain Port Motors short lived time there. The building of course, as mentioned above is the Sellers and Jones building when it was doubled in size, but taken from a different angle. It lived to be Kam Motors Limited owned by the Hubert Badanai family for well over half a century until the family decided to close the Kam Motors and Port Arthur Motors and open a new establishment on Memorial Ave. called Badanai Motors. The very rear portion of the building today houses the Badanai Motors Auto Body Shop.<br />
The Kam Motors Building still stands today even with part of the original signage and original wall on the east side of the building still showing as seen in the photo to the right. It's still 113-119 Leith Street, and owned by Diamond Taxi.<br />
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My father gave Kam Motors Limited 33 years of his life as the Body Shop Manager. The body shop was originally upstairs and there used to be a huge automobile elevator to bring the cars to the top level. You can imagine dragging a total wreck onto the elevator and having to drag it back off once upstairs. Kam also sold thousands of Chevrolet's Oldsmobile's and Cadillac's, but actually once sold Fords in the beginning and Hudson and Essex cars before General Motors cars were sold. Kam also sponsored and built a Jalopy, or stock car which was driven by a few different guys in the day such as Canary Trevisan and Bill Chepil. My father even raced it a couple of times. In the photo to the right note the large doors that were for repairing large trucks, which you can see in the photo with the #34 Chevrolet 6 cylinder powered Jalopy below.<br />
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Here's a photo of my father taken in the brand new body shop which was built behind the main Kam building with none other than and Oldsmobile Tornado in the background. My dad always wore a hat and a tie while at work managing the shop.<br />
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OK...here we go again...what was at 234 Park Street in Port Arthur. From the following invoice it says Campbell Motor Company of Port Arthur, Limited....Central Garage. The Invoice was made out to Pigeon Timber or in long terms it should say Pigeon River Timber, as in Pigeon River Minnesota.....or at least named after that. Campbell Motor Company did reside at 234 Park Street as mentioned which is now the North parking lot for our Casino. You can click on all these items to enlarge and see them better.<br />
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Here is another invoice for Campbell Motor Company on 234 Park Street and shows that they sell Dodge Brothers Motor Cars and Graham Brothers Trucks.<br />
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.....and this is what 234 Park Street looks like today<br />
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Stock Cars: In the early days of racing here especially the 1950's, so many possible hot rod projects got destroyed on the race track such as '32 Fords, '40 Fords and many old Chevrolet's, Chrysler products etc, but in the day that was only considered junk in someone's back yard. When I started racing at Riverview raceways, the junk in the back yards were '55 to '57 Chevrolet's, Pontiac's early '50's Fords etc., and we destroyed those vehicles then just as they did in the '50's. I destroyed 3 '55/'56 Pontiac 2-door sedans, one of which was so nice, I drove it home before we proceeded to tear it down for a race car and weld in roll bars. I also did that to a '66 Dodge Charger in the early 1970's to race at Riverview.......here are the examples. Now everyone wants these cars....the cycle will never end....BUT, what cars from today will people want in 20 or 25 years. They all look the same just as they did in the 1910's....funny how history repeats itself.<br />
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<b>Finally: A subject in this post that I always wanted to bring up</b>...that is, The Powder Puff Gals from the 1950's. The promoters from our Canadian Lakehead Exhibition race track always wanted to please the fans....they never wanted fans to get bored just watching the same old thing, so they promoted events such as stock car drivers staging fights in front of the old grandstand that sometimes turned into the real thing or grudge racing between two rivals...and it kept the fans coming in and proof in the pudding was that there were many race days with five to six thousand fans in the 1950's.<br />
One of my favorite promoted events was Powder Puff Racing. Some brave young women, some being wives or even mothers of the drivers there at the CLE would take to the track in their sons or husbands cars in all out daredevil competition. I was great to see but in the mind site of the car owners and drivers they were sitting on tacks hoping that their cars wouldn't be destroyed before the race was over, as they had to continue racing the same day. Eventually they would race last on race days so that if there was ever an accident, the car could at least be repaired for the next race day.<br />
The first photo series is actually a page out of the 1953 racing program at the CLE showing those brave gals putting the pedal to the metal in those Jalopies...click to enlarge.<br />
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The second one here is a newspaper cut out showing a nice photo of the winner of the day Leona Baarup. Another newspaper group photo is shown below.<br />
<b>How I miss those simpler times and days and many times wishing they could still be around....but thank goodness many photographers took pictures and many writers for the newspaper wrote incredible re-caps of the racing days back in the times of Hotrods and Jalopies.</b><br />
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<b>The writers of these articles were fabulous.....you can see in the top corner here July 9/1953 </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hope you enjoyed this post......let us know if you did, and join blogger so you don't miss any posts. Thanks, Dave</b></span>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-16450924282291476212019-01-30T23:58:00.001-05:002019-02-01T20:38:30.429-05:00THIS Fort William & Port Arthur Ontario, now Thunder Bay's FIRST History Blog/Web Page Celebrates 10 Years of History and Over 1 Million Views<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I am incredibly grateful for everyone's support over the past 10 years, as without the many readers of the Hotrods and Jalopies blog pages, I would have likely never continued with it.</b></span><br />
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HR&J is also posting history on the Dave Cano Facebook page as well as The Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Memories Facebook page. In the beginning it was a little overwhelming and when I took on my personal Facebook page and the group page CLE memories, it has become almost a daily task to keep things up.<br />
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I also receive many photos, news clippings and ideas locally and from former residents of Fort William and Port Arthur/Thunder Bay, and I sometimes have difficulty keeping it all in some order. I plan to carry on as long as I can, and my hopes are that by preserving our history this way, it will continue on long after I cannot. I get letters from as far away as New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Los Angeles California, and eastern and western Canada, saying how much they like the blog. Some people think it's only about cars and racing but as most of you know, it is a mixture of local history and racing. On the Internet the blog comes up as Hotrods and Jalopies, but on the home page I added a few words to remind people that it's also about local history, therefore reading "The Hotrods and Jalopies Generation" which covers it all.<br />
Many thanks also to <b>Gary Spence</b> and <b>Richard Mark</b> for continuing with the local history on Facebook in their own special way. We also exchange photos and information continually.<br />
Many thanks to all the contributors of photos, stories and memories. Also many thanks to my friend <b>Al Yahn</b> for being my proof reader for 10 years, and to my family for their patience.<br />
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Today I am posting 25 of my favourite then and now city history photos....no racing in this bunch. Some of the "now" ones have become "then's" already...that's how fast our history progresses. I am not adding any writing to them or hints as to what and where they are. See if you can remember.<br />
In addition I am adding one personal favourite of myself(sorry for that) which will start off the posts.<br />
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THANK YOU FOR WATCHING FOR 10 YEARS......Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-29758355648880624642019-01-22T23:46:00.001-05:002019-01-27T21:37:48.588-05:00CLE Championship Racing 1958 - New and never seen before racing photos from our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur.....I'm always on the hunt for new photos that have never been posted here, and as time goes on, there are fewer and fewer. This past August I was given a little album of photos by old friend Bernard (Bernie) Malanych. They were taken by him on September 12th and 13th of 1958 at the International Dirt Track Stock Car Championships here in Fort William at the Lakehead Exhibition Race Track. The photos that were taken by Bernie will still have the white border and were about 3 1/2 inches square taken by his typical Brownie Camera in the day. The rest of the photos and programs are from my own archive of CLE racing photos.<br />
So, we start off here by showing you the title page of the program and the center page with the roster of drivers many of which you will surely remember if you were a kid in 1958.<br />
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This is what the outside of the little album of photos looks like and again if you were around at that time you will remember.<br />
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There are some smudges on the photos, but that kind of adds to their authenticity from the day. This one of the cars coming down the main stretch in front of the old Grandstand, with the judges stand across all in white. I added a little cutout from the photo below it.<br />
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Here's a picture of Jerry MacDonald's car in front of the grandstand. You can read Jerry's data from the clipping below the picture. Those little cameras took great photos in the day. We were restricted to 8 or usually 12 photos on the film, not like unlimited digital is today, and you never knew if your photos turned out until you had them developed and returned in about a week.<br />
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Next we have three photos of the little cut down car...the beginning of what was to come in racing around the country and into the mid west USA, driven by Fred Coleman from Winnipeg, Man., with a little write up below the photos<br />
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So much could be said about our own Barry Kettering. There are many pages, write-ups and photos of Barry on the Hotrods and Jalopies generation blog pages....I will add a link to more stuff on Barry. Incidentally Barry had already became the 1958 track Champion as seen on the newspaper clipping advertising this event. <br />
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Here's a link to a plethora of Barry Kettering photos etc. that are on this site...wait 'til you've read this complete post then come back to this link, click on it scroll down as far as you want.<br />
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Here's a guy that frequented the CLE racetrack and Riverview Raceway throughout the years, Bud (Buddy) Mayala from Clear Lake Wisconsin...a nice little write-up follows this photo as well.<br />
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Another all time favorite and racing legend #519 Russ Laursen also frequented the local Canadian Lakehead Exhibition racetrack until his untimely death in a racing accident back in 1970. These guys came here to add to the action and were never disappointing......how I miss those days.<br />
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Russ Laursen holding the trophy from this 1958 event....this is a great photo thanks again to Bernie.<br />
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Dean Harrington...Mister U2 and WJMC Radio sponsored was another fan favorite that came up to Fort William many times in the day, and spent over 60 years involved in racing, particularly in the Rice Lake, Wisconsin area.<br />
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I am posting Bernie's last photo, just because it was the last photo in the little album, but I'm not too sure who's car it was....look close....are you in this photo.<br />
Thanks again to Bernie Malanych for the donation of your photo album to the Hotrods and Jalopies generation blog pages. Much appreciated.<br />
PS...A big apology Bernie, I spelled your last name incorrectly on the photo water marks, and can't change it now....😇 Sorry.<br />
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<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-5637014290877994652018-12-22T23:10:00.000-05:002018-12-23T17:22:04.984-05:00Thoughts of Christmas Memories in our Hometowns of Fort William and Port Arthur and a little more.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Merry Christmas</b> to all, and let it be said that I have neglected my blog pages terribly this past year for many reasons(no excuses), but like others have spent way too much time on my Face book page. There are some great things there but to me its not as personal as these my blog pages. I have many new stories to post here including more old local racing and city history that I will get to in the new year.<br />
So without further ado, here is a little lengthy Christmas post for 2018. It has some history, some memories of our past and a few other tidbits of interest. I hope you enjoy it.<br />
The first item of interest is my tongue in cheek "fake news" Hot Rods and Jalopies magazine cover for this year. This is my 11th cover and if you want to see all the others, I posted the 10 together last year. Here is the link, and don't forget to come back - <a href="https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-annual-fake-news-and-fake-magazine.html">https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-annual-fake-news-and-fake-magazine.html</a><br />
As you can see, my concentration is on Laurel and Hardy.....the two comics who started when there was no sound at the movies, just sub-titles as its called today. They have been known world-wide for over a century, and people still can't get enough of them. There are annual world-wide conventions for their fan club which still exists. <br />
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<b>Considering Stan and Ollie</b> literally destroyed copious amounts of Model T Fords in their films and even had some custom built for some of their films, I thought it nice to make up a little card showing some Christmas Winter Scenes. Kudos to the fabulous artists who created these impressive images.<br />
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<b>Moving along</b> here and obviously on a Christmas theme, this is an advertisement from a mid 1950's magazine, I believe Post. Reynold's Aluminum company didn't only make tin foil (I don't have a clue why people call it that because it's not tin at all.) Reynold's also sold as shown here, 7-foot Aluminum Christmas trees, which of course you could never run a string of electric Christmas lights upon, as they would likely short out or electrocute you.....It's interesting to see how they were lighted.<br />
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<b>Here is</b> the Color or as we say in Canada Colour Wheel. It would be illuminated by a mere flood light and the light circle would turn changing the colours on the aluminum tree. You could decorate it as you like but again NEVER any electric light sets. Here's a close-up of the light wheel...then scroll down to see how the wheel would change the tree colours. I actually miss these trees, but are pretty difficult to get one let alone picking up the colour wheel.<br />
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<b>Us car show guys</b> in the 1960's would abscond with our father's colour wheels and use them with our car show displays. We would put angel hair on our show cars and have the colour wheel give it a psychedelic look.<br />
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We will talk about Christmas drink mixers next. <br />
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<i><b> Coca Cola versus Pepsi Cola.</b></i> For well over 120 years, the rivalry continues for these two companies....to the point where Coke actually changed the look the typical Santa Claus had in the 1800's to what children presently comprehend.<br />
Pepsi continued with the Santa challenge as well. So here they both are.....and in my mind, and I even thought this when I was a kid. All these Santa's were depicted as rosy cheeked drunks. They all look like they added a few shots of rum to their bottles let alone the "coke in coca cola".....but if they make the kids happy, well what the hay.<br />
Santa is Santa no matter what, and if you don't believe in a little magic at Christmas, you may as well crawl into your cellar and sleep 'til the end of the season.<br />
All in all, I love these advertisements and have collected them for years......other Christmas mixers next.<br />
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<b>Oh...sorry</b>, one more Pepsi Cola tidbit here. Here's a cute little card that you may have found in your 6 pack of Pepsi in the 1940s. The bottles actually had paper labels and if you own one today....it's considered a premium find as a bottle collector. When Pepsi went from a 7 oz bottle to a 12 oz bottle...Coke did the same, but Pepsi had the best jingle to add to their Radio Commercials. Think about it and see if you can remember the jingle or any part of it before you scroll past the card below. The complete Jingle will be there.<br />
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"Pepsi Cola hits the spot<br />
12 full ounces that's a lot<br />
twice as much for a nickle too<br />
Pepsi Cola is the drink for you."<br />
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<b>Now 7-up (a clear lemon-lime beverage) and Canada Dry (the king of ginger ales).</b><br />
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7-UP's advertising was incredible. they were very elaborate and during the Christmas Holidays would spend millions of dollars on extra fancy ads like the one here, sometimes taking up the whole center section of a Post or Life Magazine.<br />
This was a December 1954 Life Magazine ad.<br />
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<b> A Christmas Canada Dry Ginger Ale</b> advertisement is almost as elaborate as the 7UP one and is from a December 1952 LOOK Magazine.<br />
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We always needed 7-UP and Ginger Ale for a great mixer for our Rye Whisky, and Coke and Pepsi for our Rum beverages. <br />
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Finally, <b>the last beverage is basically for the kids</b>....some people might use it for a mixer, and some of the coolers today even mimic the soft drinks from our childhood.<br />
Sun Crest orange as well as Orange Crush was always a staple drink for us kids in the day. This is a nice little Christmas ad for Sun Crest.<br />
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<b>I've noticed on Face book</b>.....there's been a lot of talk this year over icicles or tinsel as we called it. As a kid my father, his brothers and all my uncles on the mom's side always did the Christmas Tree tinsel. I had an uncle that was so into it that he actually ironed each strand and meticulously layered and folded them onto the tree, and once Christmas was over, gently removed them all for the next year. That was fine with lead tinsel but as years progressed and lead tinsel was removed from the market in 1972 due to lead poisoning scares. I was told that some are still available today from the black market or on line from people who bought and never used them over the years. I did a search and saw prices at about $100. for a package....YIKES.<br />
I don't even know if the plastic type which came our after 1972 are even available today. They were so full of static electricity that if you, your cat or your dog would walk within 1 foot of your Christmas tree, that it would miraculously jump off the tree and onto you. LOL<br />
So...the next two photos are of a box of icicles(tinsel) from that era and also a picture of yours truly in about 1950 in our newer home with our carefully decorated and lead tinseled Christmas Tree. <i>With all pictures on this post you can click on them to view them larger.</i><br />
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This next group of photos is not so much Christmas, but the bitter cold we experience and will experience for the next few months brought to mind a wonderful memory of my childhood days which I believe at least anyone my age or near my age will remember.<br />
With only one income in the late 1940s and 1950's and the fact that clothes dryers then were only affordable by the rich, our parents would hang our clothing on the outside clothesline, down the basement or in the porch.<br />
My father wore those one piece thermal underwear with buttoned openings or flaps where you could access important body parts. My mother found that they would dry much quicker even in the winter months if you hung them outside.....something to do with sublimation or something like that. When it was time to bring them in they would be as rigid as a cardboard box, then slowly sag to the floor like a dead body...LOL This photo is the closest I have to show you what this looked like.....and the following photos would just add a Christmas tone to it all. Next..My mother's best Christmas gift ever. Scroll down. <br />
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<b>Shortly after I was born</b> and actually I had remembered it when I was about 4 0r 5, my mother had a used Maytag gas engine washing machine....I think if she had an all year accessible river nearby she would have actually beaten the clothing with a rock to clean them rather than using her Maytag. With one kick it would start up in the porch, and while running would dance back and forth across the porch until done...then use a hand powered ringer to get most of the water out.<br />
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Here is a couple of Christmas time advertisements that I recall from my Childhood days. I remember in about 1955 getting our first Dumont black and white television set which looked pretty much like the one in the photo, but had a decent picture quality. When the test pattern came one, my father would play and play with the settings to get it the best he could.<br />
The Quaker State snowman advertisement was very typical of advertising winter products in the day.<br />
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<b> These are a couple of Christmas related magazines</b> from my very young childhood days. The Collier's was from December 1952 and the Post from December 1949. The art work is marvelous on these and all the magazine covers from those times......one final very funny post below.<br />
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I believe this was a Christmas Postcard from Germany in the day, but I re posted it and added new wording.....but still it's showing kids drinking booze, a baby holding a bottle and the brother pulling his sister back from drinking it. This is truly weird stuff for the early 1900's <br />
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I hope you enjoyed this post.....A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS FROM<br />
DAVE AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY.....STAY SAFE OVER THE<br />
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<span id="goog_75296580"></span><span id="goog_75296581"></span><br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-67378248956017999072018-12-14T00:14:00.000-05:002018-12-14T11:59:16.638-05:00We Need a Little Love This Christmas in our Home Town of Thunder Bay - City Fathers Please Consider This.......A small Christmas post to encourage The City of Thunder Bay, formerly Fort William and Port Arthur Ontario to erect a huge Christmas Tree on the City Hall property as they used to do, "in the good ol' days".<br />
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The following 6 photos with thanks to their photographer back in about 1969 is a fabulous memory we once had when The Hydro Electric commission would erect a giant Christmas tree on our City Hall property. This would be similar to what they do annually at Rockefeller Center in New York City.<br />
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This could easily be made into an annual event with Christmas carols and local entertainment. This could also be done in a prominent spot in the Intercity Area or anywhere else where people would gather. <br />
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Thanks to Gary Spence (Thunder Bay Memories) for helping me re-locate these photos.<br />
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<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-57155440159673193442018-08-06T01:03:00.000-04:002018-08-06T01:03:39.847-04:00More of the 1950's at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition Race Track in our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur It's difficult to believe that fully organized racing began here in our Lakehead cities as far back as the 1920s, but the Hotrods and Jalopies Generation in my mind started in 1952 with a race held in Murillo in August and the first race of the Lakehead Stock Car Racing assoc. started at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition in the late fall of 1952.<br />
So as we start a brand new blog post months overdue, we have donated photos from Glen Kettering's album, Cindy Patton's album (Wally Prokosh's daughter) and Glenn McKinnon's photos. Thanks to all those who have taken the time to donate photos for our use. This fall and into winter we have numerous more photos and news clippings that I will share with you, both on early racing and Fort William and Port Arthur history.<br />
To start off, the first photos are mementos of the very first Lakehead Stock Car Racing Association's program and race day which took place on October 6, 1952. <br />
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This next piece is the 1952 Roster. Do you recognize any of your friends or relatives that raced that first race? Be sure to click on all the photos and brochures to view screen size.<br />
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The next two are Times Journal clippings of the historic event. You can vividly see the old animal barns that were at the south end of the track in turn 1 & 2.<br />
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Here is an interesting photo of the #34 Kam Motors car driven by Onorio(Canary) Trevisan and Bill Chepil. This then and now photo was taken from the original Kam Motors used car lot on Leith st facing towards the garage. It is now a taxi business.</div>
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With much thanks to Glenn McKinnon we have this full color slide to share with you. This is a circa 1956 photo taken from the Grandstand towards the judges stand and I believe during fair week. The old wooden fence circling the track is visual as well as a few elevators along the waterfront. The track would encircle what was also once the golf dome with is now gone as well. Wouldn't it be great to build the track in its original place again.....not likely.<br />
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As I drove by Current River and Current River park the other day, I was remembering The Casino Dine and Dance which was just adjacent (south of) the Current River dam which eventually burned to the ground. It was a favorite of my parents to have a nice dinner together and spend a night on the dance floor. Oddly enough it was never a real Casino. As you can see they even sponsored a stock car in about 1953.<br />
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I always like to show the close proximity of the track to where the Coliseum Building is today, and this one is no exception. With thanks to Wally Prokosh's daughter Cindy Patton we have a number of new clippings and photos which will be brought out over the coming months. In front and possibly in the last lap is #49 Conrad Trombelli just ahead of #87 Tony Massaro as they pass the gate and the Coliseum building.<br />
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The next photo is of Conrad Trombelli taking the checkered flag in front of a packed grandstand and off to the right, the mezzanine area which was the uncovered portion of the grandstand to the north. Yours truly is somewhere in the crowd selling cokes to get into the races for free.<br />
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This is a a very interesting photo of my hero Barry Kettering with a seriously damaged #47 car circa 1953. Barry's #47 cars were sponsored by Bud Heidrick. One day when Bud was at the shop and Barry wasn't around, roller skates were welded to the top of his car. Bud had told Barry that he would have to leave the roller skates on his car until he stopped rolling over. Obviously Barry did, lost the roller skates and went on to much bigger and better things until his very sad and untimely death years later. The red rectangle shows the roller skate on his car.<br />
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Here's a typical photo clipping from our newspapers in the day. We always had great racing coverage which made for record crowds on race days.<br />
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Another clipping from Cindy Patton to enjoy.<br />
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In 1957 Barry and Glen Kettering had built a brand new car and was dubbed #57 for the year of change. Here is Glen and Barry with their horseshoed 34 Ford coupe named Poopsie. This car went on to numerous wins for the Kettering brothers.<br />
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The last clip on this post is from Cindy as well. It was a 1958 notification that Wally Prokosh, her dad was back in the lineup with a vengeance and would also see many successful race days at the Canadian Lakehead Exhibition race track. <br />
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Hope you enjoyed this post. I've been busy working on my new hot rod project and recovering from some health issues, so if you liked this, let me know and I will get back on track on the blog and slow down somewhat on my Facebook page. Thanks, Dave<br />
<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-6943350530025263392018-07-01T00:31:00.001-04:002018-07-01T00:31:59.420-04:00HAPPY CANADA DAY 2018<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>As luck would have it</b>, a donation to the HR&J Blog pages by my wife's cousin Mike last year has prompted me to get busy, and away from Facebook for a bit. Writing on these pages has become tedious as of late due to the fact that there are so many history pages with photos on Facebook, and its tough to find something original to post and write about.<br />
One may forget that the <b>Hot Rods and Jalopies generation</b> blog pages was the first to publish on line stories and photos of our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur. Thank you to all our loyal followers and those who write in and give us ideas and photos to publish.<br />
<b>So</b>....the donation was a compilation of 1915 "The Daily Times Journal" newspapers from April 1, 1915 until June 30, 1915, 103 years ago as we speak. The stories of WWI are compelling but too intense to write about here, as well as the total history of the sinking of the Lusitania. To start, I decided to concentrate on interesting advertising with a few follow-up stories to go with them. The first three photos are of only one title page of all the ones bound in this book. It is the TJ cover for May 10, 1915.....each photo just a little closer. Click on all photos for enlargements....<br />
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<b> Next</b>...Here is an advertisement for the ill-fated Luxury Cruise Ship <b>The Noronic</b>. A 1915 clip advertising the Noronic's Red Cross Night at the CNR Dock (now part of Marina Park) in Port Arthur.<br />
The Noronic was built by CSL and launched in Port Arthur on June 2, 1913, only two years before this ad was published in our paper. It was a Spectacular Luxury Great Lakes cruise ship.<br />
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<b>One of the largest</b> and most beautiful passenger ships in Canada at the time, she was nicknamed “The Queen of the Lakes." The picture on the left below was taken in Toronto Harbour in about 1930....but the doomed ship met it's final demise also in Toronto Harbour in a devastating fire that took place on the fateful night of September 17th 1949 at Pier 9. 118 people perished in that fire. <br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Noronic">More details by clicking here on a link to Wikipedia.</a><br />
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<b>Now for some old 1915 advertising</b>. Some of the actual locations were difficult to find, but with old phone books and some research...I did my best. The farm produce market was located about halfway between The Superior Bowling Alley and Leith St., at 202 N. May Street....a location very close to where the Goodyear Tire Store was in the most current photo below.<br />
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<b>Climax Grocery</b> was a very popular place to do ones grocery shopping in 1915. Their ad's appeared 2-4 times in each day's newspaper......it's interesting to compare over 103 years what was sold and what the prices were.<br />
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Here's the original location of The Climax Grocery on 113 S. May St. in the present day Dyke Block which was built in 1904.<br />
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<b>The RS Piper Company</b> on 1515 Brown St is one of the original hardware stores in West Fort William, but it also was a Grocery Store in 1915 as noted in the advertisement.<br />
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<b>Most of our residential city streets</b> today show little or no sign of businesses like corner stores, service stations, bakeries or shoe repair shops, but in 1915 many businesses were placed right smack dab in residential areas and many businesses were operated out of back lane-ways long before the city changed all its bylaws. Dominion Bread was a prime example of residential area business. The address was 132 Ogden Street. One of my family's first homes was on Ogden St.<br />
So there it was...about 3 houses east from McKenzie Street on the south side.<br />
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<b>Chapples Ltd</b>., formerly the Grain Exchange building started out small in 1909, but became one of the Lakehead cities of Fort William and Port Arthur's predominant department stores....finally closing its doors due to the emergence of big box stores, and the conversion of that area of Thunder Bay to another ill fated venture, Victoriaville. As you can see by the second advertisement, in the spring of 1915 Chapples was celebrating it's 6th anniversary already. Others claim Chapples started in 1915, but obviously the advertisement doesn't lie.<br />
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Here's another <b>West Fort William</b> business advertisement named People's Outfitters in 1915. It's address was 146 Frederica St., which today would be just adjacent (east) to Schwartz Men's Wear.<br />
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<b>The original Heintzman & Co. Piano </b> building was in a present day burned out area which is still empty. After The Heintzman Co. moved out of this location at 402 Victoria Ave., this location became a restaurant and eventually there was a fire that destroyed the property never to be built on again. <br />
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The two following advertisements both say they are on the corner of Heron and Simpson street, however one was called "Twin City Furniture Store" and the other "A. Gilbert & Company"...possibly later to become Gilbert's furniture which was further north on Simpson St. It's possible that each of these two businesses were on the north and south side of Heron St. long before the Simpson Hotel was built....and today houses The NorWest Community Health Centre. I believe the A. Gilbert and Co. was on the property where the Health Centre's addition is today.<br />
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<b>Another </b>well known establishment in 1915 was Neville's Drug Store at 215 Simpson St. It also states that there was another store in the Francis Block. I have no idea where the Francis block was. <br />
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<b>The building at 571-573 Syndicate</b> Ave firstly called Coslett Hardware Co. still exists to this day. Coslett's was also a very well known business even into the 1950's <br />
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<b>Coslett Hardware</b> was also known as a United Service Motors outlet who not only sold hardware for city and farm use but also fuels, such as Naphtha Gas (bottle shown above thanks to Russ Wanzuk), and also did repairs to automobiles and farm equipment. "<span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc">Naphtha is a flammable liquid made from
distilling petroleum. It looks like gasoline. Naphtha is used to dilute
heavy oil to help move it through pipelines, to make high-octane gas, to make lighter fluid, and even to clean metal."</span><br />
<span class="Y0NH2b CLPzrc">I know it's time for a new CLE racing post...I will try in the near future.....and also possibly more ads from 1915. Thanks for watching, and if it's your first visit... "WELCOME". Be sure to check back through the complete blog for memorable stories about our cities and about vintage racing as well. </span>Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-43068083250449701132018-02-09T23:01:00.002-05:002018-04-11T12:05:03.373-04:00NEW February edition of ...... Then's and Now's in our home towns of Fort William and Port Arthur...This post has a few more <i><b>Then and Now</b></i> photos to help us, not so much so that you would remember <br />
the pictures, because some of us obviously are not old enough to
remember many of them, but to touch on some of our city's fascinating
history.<br />
Progress is mostly a good thing, but much of our
history goes by the wayside and trying to remember what once was is
important, so that we may pass the information on to our children and
grandchildren to help them remember their past.<br />
Here at The Hotrods and Jalopies Generation we try to do just that.<br />
I've recently received more <i><b>never seen before</b></i> jalopy racing photos from the CLE track which will be posted soon.<br />
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This very first one I don't have a "Now" picture of, but if you study it you will be able to see exactly how downtown Fort William looked in 1892, 126 years ago.....yes our little town did progress quite a bit since then. Many of us have seen this photo before, but not of this quality.<br />
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Now we jump ahead to the Brill Trolley Bus era, lightly colored to the original Fort William beige and orange configuration. The Port Arthur ones were beige and maroon, during that time frame. I would place the "then" photo in the early 1950's. The nice rainbow sun spot in the "now" photo is courtesy of google maps. <b><i>...and as always, click once or twice on all the photos for enlargements.</i></b><br />
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Almost every year each of our twin cities would have a very elaborate winter carnival many of which I remember very well. Here we have some great old automobiles in front of Bryan's Department store in the "Victoria Block", and it's all decked out as a trading post of the Voyageur era. The photo is from the early 1950's. The "Now" photo shows the old building's wear and tear with little or no upkeep through the years....These are the type of photos I dislike the most as urban renewal basically killed this area of Fort William's downtown, not to mention the building of the Victoriaville Mall, which blocked off Fort William's main artery.<br />
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<i><b>Here is another beautiful postcard</b></i> promoting our bustling city's main street of Victoria Ave. This postcard is another much clearer copy, and with a more modern editing system I can make them look a little crisper. The beautiful Commerce Bank building is on the left. A sign saying "Sweet Caporal Cigarettes" is on a cigarette shop (This spot a few years later became The Royal Theatre). The St. Louis Hotel is next, as well as a few buildings on the right that still exist today however not in the greatest of condition. A little further down on the right would be the Avenue Hotel, later to burn down and later again to house the Odeon Theatre. The large prominent building at the most eastern end of Victoria Ave is the Canadian Pacific Elevator "B"....long since gone and before my time.<br />
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<i><b>The White Lunch</b></i> was an important hang out for school kids and teens from the 1930's to the 1950's. It was pretty much on par with the Lorna Doone which was on Victoria Ave. You could purchase a hamburger nip and a coke for .35 cents after school or after ice skating or roller skating at the Fort William Gardens in the '50's. The photo with the young ladies is a facebook find thanks to Barbara Yurkoski. The advertisement on top was found in my mother's Fort William Collegiate yearbook, and the one on the lower left is from a 1950's newspaper. As it says on the top ad..."Three doors North of Chapples". It would have been placed in the old parking lot on Syndicate Ave as shown in the "Now" photo......however the "Now" photo should actually show the brand new courthouse, which completely engulfs this portion of Syndicate Ave. The YMCA building and the Twin City Gas (Kings Stereo) building are also long gone to urban renewal and the courthouse.<br />
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Another better quality "Then" photo of the Passenger Steam Engine at the CNR Station on Vicker's Street...showing the station and the Fort William Gardens behind. The "Now" photo shows a very wide Vicker's Street which once was the home of the station and all the tracks you see here.....for those who haven't seen this photo before, the train would next head south towards Arthur Street, and begin a long turn west behind the Bell Canada and City Telephone buildings, head down the north side of Arthur Street and reconnect with the mainline behind the Kingsway Motel. If you tell a youngster this story they think you're nuts. LOL<br />
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Speaking of the Kingsway Motel, here is a picture of <i><b>the Blue Swan Inn</b></i> which was also along Kingsway street. It is long gone now and replaced with the Apartment building in the "Now" photo. Kingsway Street was the route you would take if you were heading south on highway 61 and crossing the Swing Bridge to the USA, hence there were a number of motels, some of which are still there along Kingsway St.<br />
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<i><b>The History of May and Southern... </b></i><br />
Jumping to the north/west corner of May Street and Southern Avenue we have the Royal Fort Tourist Camp. My friend Ron Limbrick lived there with his mother and father (Alderman Hubert Limbrick). Being close to the fairgrounds many of the circus folk would stay there and Ron remembered as a kid watching gymnasts practicing in their front yard. The property would later be sold to Mike Petlow who owned the Columbia Grill. Mike would build one of the very first art deco drive-in restaurants in Fort William called the Millionaire Drive-In. Like the A&W, they had car hops, hamburger and hot dog eating competitions, danceathons and live bands playing on weekends....but also great food. The property would later revert to the Dairy Queen with new buildings as we see in the last photo.<br />
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One final Then and Now in this post is the McKenzie Bridge. Friends and Family had camps along Lake Superior and we would actually ride out bikes out here to their camp for Easter break or during the summer months. In those days our parents surely trusted us or maybe weren't worried as much as parents are today.<br />
The original span bridge across the McKenzie River gorge was quite long on which we traveled to frequent the McKenzie Hotel and Restaurant you see in the background of both photos.<br />
In the most recent photo, they realized that a bridge was actually unnecessary. A huge culvert was installed instead and then the gorge was filled in with rock and dirt. It sure looked simpler and cleaner.<br />
Hope you enjoyed this post and as mentioned before....new never seen before racing photos are coming. Thanks for checking us out. Dave<br />
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Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-64311765134326254172018-01-22T23:41:00.000-05:002018-01-23T00:38:35.551-05:00Then's, Now's and More History from our Home Towns of Fort William and Port Arthur, Ontario....It's always interesting to go back into ones history and consider what our government officials whether it be locally, provincially or federally thought about our future, and what would become of these two small towns of Port Arthur and Fort William where we live.<br />
I came across the following article and photo in my collection of vintage newspapers...this one from <b>1957</b>, many of which were my own and many of which were donated by various sources throughout the years that I have been writing this blog.<br />
My unanswered question to this is <b>"What Happened Since 1957"</b>, and <b>"Where are the Half a Million People?"</b> <br />
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<b>The Outlaw Bridge</b> was very well known in the Pigeon River area in the 1920's. Our Lakehead Cities desperately needed a link to some larger populated areas, and Winnipeg and even Sault Ste. Marie were too far away for family vehicular travel......Duluth, Minnesota and Minneapolis were the closest link to civilization. The 1920's edited photo is from an old brochure I've had for years.<br />
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This next one is actually <b>a Then and Then photo</b>. These two photos were both taken in the 1950's, but the bottom photo of the Royal Yacht Britannia (Queen Elizabeth's Ship) in the harbour was taken from the original CPR station's tower shown in the first photo. The Queen visited here in 1959 to much pomp and circumstance.<br />
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This next then and now always leaves some heads scratching. <b>Triangle Service Station</b>, later to be named Ed's Triangle Service was located on a triangulated piece of land where Memorial Ave. and Fort William Road would meet at John St......We also called that corner the 5-way lights. 5-way because Algoma met Memorial Ave. north and south, and John Street was split by Memorial east and west and the 5th light was from Fort William Road. The confusion at this intersection was cleared up many years after the top photo was taken. The bottom photo shows the approximated location of Triangle Service.<br />
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<b>Jumping over to Fort William</b> on the then extremely busy <b>May and Victoria Ave.</b> intersection we have a very unobtrusive corner these days as shown in the right photo, compared to what things looked like in the 1950's and 1960's. White's Drug Store was on the north/east corner (in what was called the Cooper Block) with many interesting small and large businesses as you move east towards Simpson St., including a few banks, the Royal Theatre, and also a few hotels....but today there is little traffic, shoppers or people barely interested in being there.<br />
We all know that one of the main reasons for this departure of business and people was due to the building of the unpopular Victoriaville Mall........there's no use talking about it anymore as we all know that hopefully in the next few years it will be gone, and maybe we can try to re-invent Victoria Ave. Some are desperately trying already. <br />
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The picture below was of course the same corner as mentioned above. White's Rexall Drugs changed hands many times, and was called "Lords" Pharmacy when the terrible fire ravaged that corner in 1971...things were starting to change for worse, and as a car guy in the 1960's, our cruising strip was gone forever.<br />
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Now heading back to Port Arthur and the Red and Cream coloured <b>Port Arthur Transit</b> buses. I have seen this photo many times and tried to make sense of the exact location. The location is on Front Street on the Port Arthur side of town which is one block east of Cumberland Street near the recycle depot. The two homes behind the buses are still there, but not exactly as they looked in the 1950's. The Port Arthur buses were a burgundy colour with cream and the Fort William ones were a similar two tone in orange and cream.<br />
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<b>Smith's Tire and Battery Service</b> was located very close to where Tim Horton's is today on Memorial Ave. and the entrance to Shoppers Drug Mart on John and Memorial Ave.<br />
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<b>W. F. Bolduc Tire Company</b> was located on Park Street where the North parking lot of the Casino is today. <br />
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One more Fort William one for this post....I believe this has been done before but it is a favourite one of mine. Directly across from Fort William's original city hall was "City Hall Garage"...a very nice looking service building which also sold and serviced "Durant" automobiles. The newer building on the same property below both at the North/West corner of Donald and May St. was the original "Hydro" building's offices at one time.<br />
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<b>Just one more note to thank everyone</b> for supporting my Hotrods and Jalopies blog here on the Internet and also on my Facebook page. It is getting difficult to be original anymore as there are so many history sites on the Lakehead on Facebook now. This blog is the original local history site which has been running now for nine years. Always keep a lookout for new original vintage photos either historic or vintage racing in your albums and if you so desire, get in touch with me and loan them to scan for more great stories this year and for as long as I'm able. Thank You, Dave Cano<br />
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<br />Dave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-26224865647966122552018-01-01T00:27:00.003-05:002018-01-01T00:43:50.218-05:00Happy New Year 2018....It's difficult to believe how fast the years fly by. Thank you all for your support through the years as well as those who have donated photos stories and memories. A great time was had at the "When There Was Thunder" racing reunion this past October. Be sure to check back into the posts here to see thousands of photos and pieces of graphic art.<br />
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Here are Happy New year posts for the last few years.....click on each one then return for some great New Years reading here on HR&J.<br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2016/12/happy-new-year-2017starts-with-80-year.html">2017 click here</a><br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2015/12/a-very-happy-new-year-2016.html">2016 click here</a><br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2013/12/21-happy-new-year-2014-wishes-for-all.html">2014 click here</a><br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2012/12/happy-new-year-2013-to-you-from-us-at.html">2013 click here</a><br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2011/12/real-happy-new-year-to-allthe-hangover.html">2012 click here</a><br />
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<a href="http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.ca/2010/12/happy-new-year-2011.html">2011 click here</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We wish everyone a very safe, and peaceful New Year for 2018</span> ... DaveDave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2639554780092170236.post-32689182870927643232017-12-16T22:15:00.000-05:002017-12-16T22:53:58.211-05:00My Annual Fake Magazine Covers...for HR&J...or call it Fake News...😁<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>M<span style="color: red;">E</span>R<span style="color: red;">R</span>Y <span style="color: red;">C</span>H<span style="color: red;">R</span>I<span style="color: red;">S</span>T<span style="color: red;">M</span>A<span style="color: red;">S</span></b></span></span> </span>all our family, friends and Facebook friends in Canada and the USA as well.<br />
<b>In case you didn't know</b>, <b>The Hot Rods and Jalopies Generation Blog</b> was actually <b>the very first</b> <b>local photo history site</b> which later evolved into many different Facebook history sites in the past few years years. It was started in April of 2009, almost 9 years ago and we have almost one million hits. I have tried to add as much historic content to all the photos posted to the best of my ability and with the help of some very knowledgeable friends...you know who you are. I was laid up a bit this year and in the process of finishing my final...YES...my final hot rod build. I have also been spending more...actually too much time on my Facebook page and I want to get back here to where we started.<br />
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A huge thank you to everyone who supported and helped me with this project (family and friends). I still enjoy local history, vintage racing, vintage advertising etc etc as much as ever and hope to bring more interesting things to these pages.<br />
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My latest hot rod may be my swan song, or my thesis in the car world but I will continue to write on these pages as often as I can and far into the future.<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Have a great Holiday Season with your Family and stay safe in our crazy world.</span><br />
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So...here we go with another Christmas post. In the past number of years I did some fictitious magazine covers for HR&J ....and this year is no exception. The first two are brand new this year and the rest were from past years. There are ten in all and I will add more each Christmas. The final one is my favorite. I hope you enjoy them. Click on each once or twice more for X-large viewing.<br />
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...however all the buy lines or article content has some local flair. Enjoy! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Santa is a daredevil in so many ways....</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tom Medley art is Iconic in the Hot Rod world....this mag cover is so Hot Rod.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My all time favorite cover I did dated December 1922 with this beautiful young lady driving a huge touring car in the day and bringing Christmas gifts home to her family.</span></td></tr>
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Thanks for watching and keep in touch,<br />
Dave CanoDave Canohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832352575867917038noreply@blogger.com0