Ottawa & Gladstone – Cherniak’s – 1930

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• In the late 50's Loblaws was next to the Centre theater east of Pillette, Dominion store was at the corner of Wyandotte and George, west of Pillette.

• Richard McIntyre you are quite correct in saying that it was a Loblaws next to the Centre theatre. How memories fade with age!! Am I correct in saying that a Loblaws or Dominion store also opened in the middle fifties on the south side of Tecumseh road west of Pillette?

• In the fifties Loblaws had a store where the Giant Tiger store is, When Loblaws closed all teir Windsor Stores they changed this to OK Economy, another Loblaw name. This store did not last very long, later became catalouge store like Consumers Distrubitors, then burned down.
  Further west on Tecumseh Rd. was A&P at Central, Dominion between Chrysler and Walker Rd, and Loblaws near Hall now Trevie resturant.

• >>Further west on Tecumseh Rd. Loblaws near Hall now Trevie resturant.

  This Loblaws was on the south side of Tec. between Lincoln and Gladstone, and is now Francos, I remember buying bread there for 22 cents a loaf back in the mid/late 60's

• I remember milk being delivered by Bordens into the 70's, and other dairy trucks after that. While a kid I got a kick out of being able to walk up to the back of a milk delivery truck and buy a pint (of milk). They looked sort of like mail trucks with a reefer.

• I remember the milk/bread man coming 'round in the 70's in Forest Glade. The local grocery store there was N&D (I think?). I'd always thought that we still had a milk man because at the time it was a new development without one of the larger grocery stores but it seems it was city-wide.

• I suppose N&D would have been considered the local grocery store for Forest Glade residents at the time, until Gordon's opened in the late 70's. We moved to the 'Glade in 1975 and I remember when it was being built.

• Giving away my age, but, I remember: the coalman, the iceman, the breadman with his tray of Hostess treats, the milkman with his Creamtop milk which was used to make real whipped cream, and who can forget the Fuller Brush man with his case filled with dozens of items, each in it's own almost secret pocket. Wow. I think there was a coal company just north of Hana on Parent Ave. An ice company was on the west side of the tracks across from the foundry at the southern juncture of then Crawford and Tecumseh. There were stables at Walker and Wyandotte where Ambassador cleaning is now. Don't remember if it was a dairy or bread stable.

• The corner of Walker and Wyanddotte was Walkerside Dairy, later Bordens Dairy until they went out of milk and ice cream buisness in Ontario.
  Does anybody remember the Soble man, weeky service of all kinds of items, I think they had orange trucks?

• Hey Richard McIntyre, great recall of all those memories on our landscape long ago. Can't help you with your question, but maybe you recall the locations of the Big 3 grocery chains on Ottawa St. in the 1950's? And also how about Twin Pines dairy, their milk was no match for Purity Dairies, but they had the best ice cream by far.