“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

“First memory is the YMCA up in the uptown area. So many kids.” – Jeff Bovaird

“Saint John is the oldest city in Canada – there’s a lot of history there.” – Brenda Guitard & Lois Zaat, Saint John, NB

“The small businesses didn’t have the money to push through all those years of hard times.” – William Thompson, Saint John, NB