HomeMy WebLinkAboutLakeshore Advance, 2013-08-28, Page 11Wednesday, August 28, 2013 • Lakeshore Advance 11
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Lynda Hillman-Rapley
Lakeshore Advance
It was 45 years ago this
week that flames took
ver what was once a
opular music casino
hall in Ipperwash and
many still remember it
like it was yesterday.
As the story goes,
John Ross built the
hotel and dance hall
known as the
Casino, on the
east side of the
road. There had
been a small
dance hall across
the road but it
had been con-
verted to a bowl-
ing alley.
The original
shareholders were
Stuart Ovens,
Arthur Ovens, Col.
Duncan Ross Mr.
Squires and Lisleie
Collie the book
keeper. At some
time the Evans
brothers of Ailsa
Craig were also
associated with this
group. This group was called the Ipper-
wash Development Company.
In John Smith's Ipperwash Beach it
states "The Casino began as an exclu-
sive night spot with dining room and big
bands playing and it was still a popular
night spot to go to dance or stroll with
your "sweetie" to listen to the waves
rolling off the lake when at the close of
e evening, it burned to the ground."
At the time of the fire Bert Simms
owned ft, he bought it in 1958 from Col.
Duncan Ross. After the fire Sims oper-
ated an Esso Station and his wife ran a
gift shop at the same location. Bert's son
Fred Rutledge lives in Grand Bend.
The fire was discovered shortly before
�a
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1430
midnight in an apartment at the north-
west corner of the second floor. There
was a dance at the time and when asked
to leave the crowd of 400 left orderly and
without panic. The kids were dancing to
the tunes of The Odessa of Kitchener.
The Forest Fire Co. and Thedford
department received a call to the fire at
11:40 p.m. and fireman Ron Sullivan
stated that when the first truck arrived
moments later the roof had already col-
lapsed. Flames fanned by a north- east
wind enveloped the frame structure in
minutes and the glow of the fire could
be seen as far down the lake as Sarnia.
Nothing was saved from the building.
Careless smoking from the apartment
was the cited cause of the fire.
courtesy of Fred Rutledge
Casino in the early days and the day after the 1968 fire. Clarence Haskett (Haskett funeral home) played in
this band.
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