“There’s some customers that come in here for 2 or 3 times a day and have been coming in here for 30, 40 years.” – Michael O’Reilley, Miramichi, NB

“It was always the destination to go, at that point in my life, we’re talking maybe 60 years ago, to Smith’s and Bartlett’s stores.” – Sylvia Samek, Windosr, ON

“My grandmother was one of the operators of the manual elevator at Smith’s.” – Ross Langill, Windsor, ON

“I’d work upstairs with the seamstress, walking around with a magnet picking up pins for her.” – Warren Twigg, Windsor, ON

“You wouldn’t leave there with an empty stomach.” – Cathie Weadick, Hamilton, ON