We’ve been here 40 years now. We carry as much stock as any store. And sometimes even more, like our piano department is quite significant. Our drum department, our guitars. – Jason Sonier

I think that we’ve lost the critical mass of different stores in the downtown to make it anything other than an entertainment spot. We don’t have any, you don’t have a stationary store downtown. We don’t have a appliance store or a furniture store. So we don’t have enough variety. – Martin Aitken

As a kid growing up, I remember bicycling up from our home in the downtown with my friends. As we grew up, we got our driver’s licenses and we had to cruise the streets. – David Wilson

We heard that she was staying at the Beaverbrook hotel. So me and my little friends, we were eight years old and their mom and we ran down the sidewalk to the Beaverbrook and we got here ahead of everybody else and stood right beside the door. – Aubrey Gaines

So it was probably being downtown at this time of the year for back to school shopping. And my Mom would take me to Sears and which was located downtown and we would pick out $44 worth of clothes and a new pair of sneakers. – Tim Yerxa