Old Home Week Free For All

These pictures was taken on august 16, 1946 at the race track during Old Home Week.
The two horses heading for home are Wilkin , on the rail and Anti-Aircraft on the outside.
Wilkin won the heat.

ST. AVARDS

This Building was called Scott's Mill it was situated on Ginger Mackays home and where Newt had The Morris Dealership.
The mill burned in 1942, my brother Ernie said it was a saturday afternoon and he and his friends had jst left the movie theatre after watching Roy Rogers and they saw the fire and of course ran to watch it.





This picture of Love's property is dated 1913. It is still standing but was almost gone a few years ago.



The Backyard

Front View






This view is from the front of Love's looking over to where Borden Myers would eventually build.



This is from the front looking up St. Peters Road 1913 at the intersection of Beasley and Allen Streets. The brick place on the right was Pope's Brewery and was sold to the Love's in 1875 and converted to a tannery.



This our Grandmother Callbeck sitting in our back yard at 2 St. Peters Road.



Mom , Lorne & Helen




The Callbecks at 2 St Peters Road

The School

This is the earliest photo of the school I came across.

Womens Institute Hall

Here are two pictures of the hall as it was and when The Lions took it over.
Notice the vents missing in the second photo, The Lions replaced those tanks in the basement that held the sewage.

Horace Smith

I see in The Guardian this morning that Horace Smith passed away, he was 93 and was married for 68 years.
Horace ran Smith Auto Body in Parkdale for many years, on St Peters Road ( A great Kenny Burke story here) and then on Beasley Ave.
We had alot of fun at the shop on saturday afternoons.
Horace and Mrs Smith both attended the reunion last June at the school and we appreciated them making the effort to attend.
Horace was one of the "greatest" generation who left their homes as young men and fought some of the most evil men the world has seen.
Thankyou Horace, well done.

TREMTONES

Two Parkdale Boys were honoured at the ECMA'S last Sunday night, as a tribute to The Tremtones. Niall mackay and Doug Macewen, Parkdale Jr. High Grads and late night patrons of Barry's Snack Bar.
Click on the Play button and listen to them , recorded at The Rollaway on a Reel to Reel machine.
Well deserved guys, I bet Joe has the big light spinning out of control.

Mabel Mackay

A short video on my Mother's life.