“Nobody ever went up and down the street without speaking to each other.” – Dorothy Finner

“You dressed up to go downtown, you never went down town in your grubbies.” Jackie Wolgemuth, Trenton, ON

While Jerry slipped away from his counter to play pool, FD Hill & Co would fill with farmers loading their sleighs with provision for the weeks ahead.

“We’d get the pieces of wood from our fathers, or whatever it was we needed. But we always needed wheels. But the only place you could get wheels was this junkyard.” – Cassandra Chisholm, Mimico, ON

“Everybody went to Kresge’s for a hot dog!” – Anne Beaudoin-Parent, Windosr, ON