“My father was a butcher, so there was the smell of curing meat, which can actually be quite good. That, mixed with spices and fresh baking, was an incredible place, still is.” – Cindy Christie

“What I think the central part of, I think people would ask me to participate in your project was the story of the Imperial Theatre. And it really is an amazing story.” – Jack MacDougall

“First memory of uptown Saint John would be probably coming from the West Side and thinking of it as downtown and uptown. To the West Side person, this lower part of the city was always downtown. And the upper part was uptown.” – Michael Richard

“Christmas was wonderful there. It would almost be like, you know, if you scale Macy’s down to a little town under a hundred thousand people, then that was the place to go at Christmastime.” – Barbara Kliffer

“I came here in 1962 and it was always called Uptown St. John. I lived in a lot of cities and this is the first I ever heard of that.” – Cyril Smith