I guess a rite of passage growing up was when you got to go downtown. And you would go hang out of this place called Grumpy’s. – Jenelle Jakobsen

“The Bison Cafe is a centre for the downtown.” – Rick Orr, Prince Albert, SK

“Well, we all sit around here every day, and who’s going to tell the biggest lie?”- George Doucette with Shelia and Clair Gallant – Alberton, PEI

Basically, a lot of these places are really old. Especially this one right here. The central barbershop used to be all kinds of different stuff. – Jacob Power

You’d have the old miners in there, politicians would go in there, anybody and everybody. – Lydia Bardak