Yepper ... all of the above 'Ironwarrior'
.. my mother worked at Woolworths for years .. she was working there when it burned in the late 40's(?) . I still have the impression of the teeth from the escalator in my left knee ... I fell running up the down stairs ... I was about ten.
By the way .. the washrooms are still under Gore Park. They simply bricked up the doors and back filled it.
That vision of downtown, I am afraid, is simply that, a vision, and those of us lucky enough to have lived it ... well .. we were lucky .. a few generations have passed and priorities have been altered .. but that's evolution ...eh?
I spent this morning looking around downtown and on Locke Street for some 'eclair shells' .. the type that Max Mintz used to make his famous 'Chilled Chocolate Eclairs' at the Chicken Roost ( 1986 she closed..). The wife and I have been talking about them for a few weeks now ... shells, split down the middle, filled with vanilla ice cream and covered with hot chocolate syrup. I have been searching for them every Saturday, in futility I must say, after my weekly Farmer's Market run.
Ever since I started reading this forum ... I see what's left of 'old downtown' in a different light .... and as Martha say's .."That's a good thing!"
Mack
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