It was a mercantile store and it was everything you wanted in there. That was nice when you’re downtown. Everybody was decorated and there you met everybody. – Roger Aube

There used to be Kent’s store. And this was the best place to shop. They had everything. Nails, pants, shoes, no matter what it is, that was the place. Just as good as the shopping mall, you know? – Jerry Joseph

When I was growing up, that was where a lot of the miners and people that worked in the pulp paper industry cashed their checks. – Pat Roach

“We had everything… There was always coffee, sort of the consistency of mud.” – Sue Foster, Winnipeg, MB

Hear Emesha Boyko, Krista Wilkinson, and Sarah Paradish as they recount their memories of the Mondragon Bookstore and Coffee