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Post by penneme on May 8, 2006 8:42:23 GMT -5
I remember the Pop Shoppe and it was right beside the Beer Store.. I think I have a case of empties I have dragged half way around Canada.. The pop was good and we all got excited when Mom and Dad came home with a case. There is a Seafood store in there now. Not as exciting but who can pass up Lobster. Was the RollerRink up by the old Fair Grounds on Sydney in Belleville? Anyone remember the Mad Mechanic in the Four Seasons Hotel? They never checked for ID. Or how about Food City and Towers? No longer there.. Stream took over that space after Zellers built a new store out by the mall. How about the Ivanhoe Cheese Factory? We go there alot for fresh made curd.
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Post by Wanda Fry (Goodall) on May 8, 2006 15:30:53 GMT -5
The Pop Shoppe-I almost forgot about that one. Are they in business anymore anywhere? Hmmmmmmmm age of majority. Ok was I the only one that didn't use it? Not that I needed it, drinking the cheap beer in the mess. Nevermind the cherry whiskey, pop open the Coors light Maybe Brian will share some of his stories that he talks about. How about it Brian? For us that weren't there What year did the mall open up? I remember it was just that long hallway f or a long time until they built the extention. And that whole area is all built up with the new Zellers and Home Depot. I think everytime I go up there, another store is opening up.
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Post by mholmes on May 8, 2006 20:12:41 GMT -5
The roller rink was in the old Loblaws building near the armoury on College St (?) where the bus terminal is now, I think.
Does anyone remember the convenience store that was right across from Bayside P.S. on the same road (I've forgotten the name) for a short time (not Joanna's on the highway)? I remember it always being packed with students playing pinball and the air was filled with all this wonderful smoke.
How about the quarry parties? I remember when I was too young to attend, going up the next day to scavenge empties to return to the beer store. We used to make a small fortune everytime there was a party.
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 8, 2006 23:05:42 GMT -5
Pop Shoppe - cream soda! That was great pop, but we only had it when we visited relatives in Scarborough. I remember that in Toronto there was a truck that would come around to homes and exchange the empties for new bottles. Cream soda was the best! A treat!
I remember the Mad Mechanic....I guess it's not there anymore!
Never went to a quarry party.....would be in a house on the base for a party.
Mall have changed again...no longer that type that Belleville first got....it's all about big box stores now. Another trend....what will the urban players create in another 20 years.
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Post by penneme on May 10, 2006 9:11:59 GMT -5
I remember the quarry parties.. and the OPP showing up and most of us being underage drinkers. They just told us all to go home and never once charged us. I guess nowadays that would be handled differently. Remember when hithchiking was cool??? I think at one time or another one of us must have done it.. I know I did. Today I would be terrified to even think about it. Does anyone remember when the school board tried the go to school in the afternoon instead of during the day? For one day I think it was we started classes at 2 pm instead of 9 am. Sadly most of the watering holes we all snuck into as teens are now gone, The Royal, The Dutch Mill Inn and the Cave are all gone. Wonder if sneaking into Bars now is as big as it was back then.
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Post by mholmes on May 11, 2006 20:05:41 GMT -5
Wonder if sneaking into Bars now is as big as it was back then. I think now that Albert Lintini (Doctor's Hotel) is no longer in the bar business, it might be tougher for minors to get in and get served. Mike H
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Post by fleeter on May 12, 2006 8:37:36 GMT -5
this might surprise you Mike, Albert is still very involved in the bar business with a place called Matt & Joe's (Matt and Joe are his two sons) in Belleville.
It's a very busy place and very popular on the weekends with the 19-25 crowd...
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Post by mholmes on May 14, 2006 5:01:05 GMT -5
Wow! I thought he had retired a number of years back.
The Lintinis, "Proudly Serving the Underage Community Since 197-" Traditions are grand. I always liked Albert and whenever we played there he was great to me even though I was underage at the time. Some of my best first drinking memories were formed at the Doctor's Hotel. I hope they are still giving kids a place to do the same.
Thanks Steve.
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Post by lanceanator on May 28, 2006 11:49:22 GMT -5
Memories are a funny thing..... As I sit and ponder all the quips and quotes on these pages, trying desperately to hold back the tears, each word spoken adds to the visualization in my mind's eye. I have been in the Trenton / Belleville area for a number of years and I remember a lot of the places. I started public school at Bayside and remember the high school being built. I remember the thrill of attending the huge new complex in grade nine, thinking I had "arrived". I also remember the original Quinte mall (one hallway in length) and standing in a long line in that hall to get tickets to the show. Anyone remember the theatre in the mall??, it is now a car dealership. well, they are using the space anyway. Prior to that it was a dollar store (like there are not enough of those in the area) I believe it was a clothing outlet prior to that. I recall the little store across from the small school, not the public school but the smaller, little school closest to the highway. I got in a fight there outside that store. Well it wasn't much of a fight, more of a dance and jab, and as we were about to enter round two the school bell rang like the proverbial 10th round at Cesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The small crowed quickly dispersed leaving me standing wondering what the hell the point was to this little encounter. Ohh well memories good and not so good stay with us. And ohhh yeah the famous "fire" in Trenton where I thought the whole town was going up in flames as we sat on our bikes watching the mayhem. Today I think a good coat of fire would do wonders for the cleansing of the town, but that's only because I have seen its decline from its once proud, busy popularity to a vacant, business, dollar store ridden collection of old and new, teetering precariously on the brink of it's total ruin. We are in a downward spiral in many directions, all the while calling it "progress" I went back to Bayside High after joining the military to upgrade my math in the hopes of carrying on to officer rank. I knew the school had changed and in deed so had society, when , at the end of the semester, I saw a student sucker punch and drop Mr Leighter to the floor for what was apparently a failing grade given out.....Mr Leighter was stunned and shook up but other wise ok. Times sure have changed.... Lance
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on May 28, 2006 13:10:59 GMT -5
Wow...Lance writes with elequence...I wonder what mark Mr. Ingram would give him for his composition above. Well done, Lance! Keep those posts and memory piques coming. Same for the rest of the old guard from the 70s, early 80s. What about some feedback from the 90s group? I don't think there will be much from the 2000 group as they've just left the school and memories are made up of times of yore. Not times of a few days ago. Tells you, Lance, that we are growing old. Short term memory is not what it once was, but our long term memory is in vivid colour (b&w for some). But I digress after covering a high school grad/prom on Friday and Saturday here in Wetaskiwin. When I arrived here in '98, the class that walked across the stage Saturday afternoon were all in Grade 6. Wow! Now they are about to set forth and attend this fall some post-secondary venue. And I've been out of BSS for 28 years based on getting my Grade 13 diploma in June 1978. Beem three decades since I arrived at BSS to start 11th grade in Bay 9. Memories...to be cherished, right Lance?!
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Post by penneme on May 28, 2006 17:41:32 GMT -5
I remember moving to the Bayside area from Nova Scotia and thinking how much I would likely hate it. I started at Bayside Elementary supposed to be in grade 4, but at that time Nova Scotia was ahead of Ontario in education, and I was bumped up to grade 5. I felt so alone as I knew no one. before long i made lots of friends who went onto highschool with me. I remember the first day at Bayside Secondary, being so afraid cause I was now a little fish in a big pond.But trying hard to fit in but not quite sure how. I spent 4 years at Bayside, and I can honestly say while I might not have always agreed with the teachers I respected them. Little lessons taught by parents who raised teenagers in the 70's... respect your elders, some kids today could sorely use that lesson. I remember the little store and playing pinball there at lunch time, that was when the seniors used to let us use the machines. Yes Jules and Lance, memories are a great thing even the bad ones now bring a smile to ones face
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Post by lanceanator on May 29, 2006 5:33:48 GMT -5
Appreciate the compliments on my dribble Jules, time age and maturity have a way of creeping into ones vocabulary, allowing us to pec at the key board with some elequence. It's funny you should mention Mr. Ingram... I have seen him on a couple of occasions since high school, none recently though. I remember getting papers back in english class, thinking I had attained a high mark with the out pouring of intellectual garble I put forth on paper, Only to find random red circles scattered about the paper like chicken pox marks on a sick kid. I couldn't understand why the teachers couldn't grasp my elequent penmanship and thought pattern when it all made so much sense to me.....having said that I reflect upon the garble of the kids today in thier new dialect they call "the english language" I had a foster son live with us for a while who, being a teen, bestowed on me the various "new" words of the kids today. Example....when we understood some thing we said we understand, today they say they are "down" with it. I recall the first day I heard my foster son say "she was the nuts" to my amazement this, in fact, is a good thing meaning this person was "hot" or a "babe or something similar. lolol I wonder how the english teachers of our time would have graded the fine language the kids have today? I believe the statement " How are you" has digressed from that of a greating to the current style of " YO sss'up?" Which in fact is a slured " hello what is up? " which initially meant " how are you? lolol Times have changed
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Post by lanceanator on Jun 14, 2006 8:29:03 GMT -5
Have times really changed.... or have they just gotten faster? Is it because there is soooo much more out there we have today that we didn't have then. can anyone do simple math today without asking where is the calculator? Try this one... ask your child to add, ohhh say, 4 different numbers at least two digits each. Their first response is " got a calculator" then hit em with.. ok what's two and two? Have we gone forward or backward? cheers Lance
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Post by penneme on Jun 14, 2006 8:33:17 GMT -5
When I was a crew person at Timmies(many moons ago).. the kids could not make change without looking at the till. I even had one girl come running from drive thru to ask me what change she should give a man who had a $2.25 order and gave her $3.00.. that is sad. Had that happened back in the 70's I think Mr. Baxter would have given her a detention. Times have changed for sure.
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Post by lanceanator on Jun 15, 2006 6:08:30 GMT -5
LOLOL Elain too funny, sad that our kids have a hard time making change but funny none the less. Remember when calculators first came out? they were the size of a major text book. Now you need a needle to use the one that is on your wrist or pull out your palm pilot and check your callendar then make a phone call and add with the built in calculator along with getting directions with the global positioning system..... times have changed. cheers Lance
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