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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1971-07-29, Page 14„Ig 00ERICli,SIGNAL-STAR.,TH-URSDAY, JULY 29, 1971 • • r , arbershop of: .the past a I was a place to congregate • 44 • BY LIZA WILLIAMS, When we think of 91dKashioned times, only the MoStohvious differences 'come mind as a rule. Long skirts and gas lamps, carriages and” qiaiht language are the things .• ,107093•041.9,11Lis*R.WSsi*Va...lUtta- t *ve you ever thought what ,happened in the 19th -century when sOmeone had a toothache? • Cir needed a container for apple eldek, molasses, or hoMe-made wine?Or wanted a picture., of sornething? in the Huron County Pioneer Museum there are several eXhibits set up, under categories, to represent various aspects of life in days ' of yOre. , These displays were assembled by Mr: J. H. Neill, curator, Mr. James Shisholm, assistant curator, 'and Mrs. Friedel Nanz, Museum AttendanLand assist curator, in museum pressed her --nose up against the glass and asked her mother what the disptay was supposed to be, ,.""Oh, a barbershop? Doesn't look like • Her father hought otherwise. With a nostalgic, ictok, he sad,. '''‘Nry•.,,ftither used ' to have a couple of razors like that . ,• On a table is a display of. 'razors and strops. Lather brushes and mugs Line ashelf. A portable shaving kit bears the naffie Kriss Dross Stropper and Razor; the advertising business knew even back then that a catchy name NI was the key to a successful product. On another table lieslarinting equipment which the barber used to advertise his trade. tThe wooden stamps were used to put slogans and pictures on posters or leaflets to tell people what a 1962. fine barber there was. • First is the barber shop. A • plush red velvet'chair dominates " this !, replica, which includes examples of hair -cutting and • shaving equipmer1t from throughout the last two _centuries..The chair has a crank in the back and an adjustable headrest so the barber could Ulf • his customer -to the most advantageous angle. There is even' a •footrest with two levels for extra.comfort. t•- •?The barber shop was ,not txvticartl;r•-con2PaAhle„...to those, of today in its functions, ,Today a L ,visit to the barber is a relatively •infrequent event for many men. •f' As Museum Guide Anne Legg l• says, 'Men can't afford to get l•• their hair cut nowadays - and •anyway the style is long." • Although the style was also • long then, the . old-fashioned barber shop was, a° place loved ' and frequented by gentlemen of its day. • It was a place to congregate, to 'hear the daily gossip,to. get out ofthe house and :the company of wornen and into a private domain of • the, world Of men. •, • The museum's barber shop, is • a cheerful room, With a large chest of drawers for razors and • towels, and agmearly full-length • mirror of the old-fashioned glass Which reflects like the mirrors'in a fimhouseat a fair. The room is made authentic by the addition of several touches like a hatstan.d • with old-fashioned straw hats tossed gaily 'Onto • it,j• and a • display of magazines •and journals like the Livestock Farm Journal, the Farmer's Advocate • from 1895, and an ancient copy of the Toronto'Olobe. • One little • 4Visitor to the • I th enter of the room hangs a ' Rose Atkins Sunning Lamp. And that, apparently, was the last word for'. a popular barbershop. ' The main pisiness of the „dentist of the 19tli century seemed to ht_.• to , manufacture and fit false teeth. &great array of "sampleteeth is displayed on a table in the replica dentist's office at the museum. Dentures and bite -plates are lying about just as if the dentist himself had left the. room for a minute to,„ -mix up sorne8pence's Plaster or some De Trey's Synthetic Porcelain. • • • "Hey, that's what Grandma has!" cried 'one small visitor in delight. And perhaps Grandma • cameto such an office to get her false teeth. , In the center is a chair, adjustable like the ones of today, but without the steriW white and silver gleam we are used to in our dentist's offices. A rinsing bowl stands by the 'chair,' and close at 'hand are drawers ifor-tools,-Directly in -front of the chair dangles a drill. But attached to its stand are foot pedals of wrought h -on, for the drill' was not .9Perated, by 'electricity as ours are today.. One • visitor, looking at the pedals, commented, „"It's funny they • had to have, everything so ornate." • On the wall, a complicated panel of dials mounted on white • marble bears the label, "This air - pressure and controls is for - blowing out the .-drillings and drying the inside of the tooth • before filling." • In the corner stand some • tanks, of gaS in case the patient couldn't stand the proceedings in his ',mouth. It -was no* wonder he couldn't sometimes, for on the table lies-a—tumkey for extractions. This little gadget looks like a key on the top and a clamp ori the bottom, aqd'its,use was _very simple: the dentist merely Plated it arourttactli:- %turned it slightly, and YANKED. So much for lkh century dentistry. The photographer's stu4lo is • next, and visitor's eyes light up at the sight of it. Here is a familiar scene; we have seen ' similar apparatus in 91d movies. There was no such thing as do-it-yourself pictures ino, old-fashioned times, unless you were ad enterprising inventor, and made your own camera. , , • A family portrait had to be taken. by a professional photographer in his studio, with equipment which looked much like a cross between an accordion and a telescope. Besides, the camera itself., the studio replica displays methods of film processing, including equipment for developing like an , • old-fashioned Kodak -lantern,. a •mortar and pestle to grind up chemicals, and pans -arid rollers to soak the negatives. A chair and backdrop await the next customer. POrtraits line the walls, and faces of the past look 'down the ages. These • 3 James Richardson It Sons Ltd ••'Serving The ,Feed Dealers of Western Ontario _PHONE 524-8388, GOD,ERICH • ,„ „ r-•• a 41 Mrs. FlOSsie SheardoWn, 58 St. Andrew Street, celebrated her 90th birthday July 18 With her ' family': She is seen here with her children (standing left to right) Waiter, Harold, Mrs. Harry (Ada) Fritzley, Murray' 'and Carl. A family dinner was held at Tiger Dunlop inn following an Open house at the home of Murray Sheardown Saturday:July (Hadden's Studio photo) photographs .are a direct contact with the past. ' ' Above the door. -Of the little shop are scenes of Goderich. There is a view of the Park' and Square in 1866. Next to it is a. 'storage : elevator burning up in 1903. Beside it -is a faded print entitled "An Arch of 1700 salt • • • • Woman rtOwoman Continued from Page 2A. suppose, that in the middle of • the night when we old follcs, are trying ,to sleep, the young peciple use the .almost -empty, streets to • work out • their youthful -exhuberance behind the wheel. • And I can't think of anything much more annoying. to hie in the wee. small hours of the .morning than the soundof a car being burned around a corner on two wheels (or less), It can take you ,from a Sound sleep" to a . sit -Up alert in the twinkling of an eye And like everyone else in the town of my. generatiOn. I mumble terrible • threats .coricerning what I would, do if I could lay my hands on the simple -Minded son of a,so-anc",•so who should , be -home in bed but I'm fully aware that . unless a ,police officer has witnessed these antics I haven't a hope of reVenge. • . • . • So 1 n1 back in sluriiber and • hope that he or, she uses the the next fella% as ta en a " rest' from lab& for a few days There . .'is so'mething great about leavitigl., 'work and kno;-ing • that •you needn't wory about it , again until you return.jo me. that's the holiday. It doesn't follow that onemust travel_ far from home to have a vacation. It simply means that the routine pressures are lifted .for a period of time anyou .are free to do only „ those things which really please ,you,..41ike sleep in or'go back to -bed after breakfast or shop until after the time that dinner is usually served whea someone is working. We (the Keller familp don't take our vacation during the summer months. It just' isn't possible.:..so ',Ave get a 'little discouraged at this tigie- of year when most people are o work enjoying themselves. But we look forward to the winter months when we get our break away from the grind. Right this.Moment I'm,dreaming about our vacation....sometime when the! snow flies and everyone else is bogged down with work. Boy, that willt. be jus staff toholiday withotit concern about , things at. the -office 'but the staff at this newspaper k so devoted to the cause that we stay at, our posts all thiough the summer months: -...'doing not only our own work but the work of • who • "It's the man about the wiring ma'am." t It'sgrue, livingin "any older home withoUt up-to-date wirin`g jUst d4sn't.hold a candle to truly modern electrical living. • The changes that'el4c1rical modecnization brings will brighten your life .throughout every room' in your home - for -years to come. ,You;11 have more outlets and switches Where you want them, betterop6rformance from your appliances- and you can even add the year-round comfort of electric climate control. And rewiring -an Older home needn't be.cornplicated or expensive..:the cost will probably be less than you' `°T),A. imagihe, and the Hydro Finance Plan makes it easy for ‘96 • - yqy tObucjg Of. EdOrgrealerctimlort-antl*convenience-and an extra margin of, Safety, too - call your qualified Electreal Modernization cOntractor. • ElLitOtrittAL MODIRSIMEATION Or askyour Hydro. • other end • of town • 'fOr • a playground tomorrow night. I .•liis.e the town solicitor's definition of unnecessary noise. Ken Hunter • sO,vs that unnecessary noise is, noise which can be • controlled by a human 'being...such as honking ,horns squealing tires or useless acceleration. Mil Hunter clairns that the noise of large ..trucks loaded down with cargo is -not necessarily unnecessary': and that males sense to me. barrels across West Street at Wellington built for Lord Dufferin's visit in 18661' In an age when products were °mit packaged in individual containers for purchase in a large supermarket, most . people Provided fr-mair of their , own food from gardensand orchards. 'When harvest time came along, containers were needed for storing the food for the winter, .and • since neither cardboard boxes nor plastic bags were, available, the cooper shop was where •people went to buy containers. ,The . cooper 'made barrels and keys. He had ari -ortinent Of machines to•assel. .,e his barrels. A •barrel-rnaker's stove heated • the staves untilthey'Were able to be bent into the proper shape. A 'special saw was used •for cutting • barrel heids. A hand machine wa'S. usethto cut notches in the hoops for latiaer tubs. A drilling device and anvil held the hoop in place for nailing. It was operated by a foot lever. A barrel -maker's press put the heads on the wood stave barrels. There are examples. in the shop of beer kegs, apple baskets and cider, kegs, and even • a barrel for home-made cherry • • • There are other shops in the Museum which are equally interelting, as a shoemaker's, ycarpenter's and -weaving room. But they are best able to speak • for themselves, as is the -entire" rnuseum. • • It. is holiday timeParound the • Sigrial-Star • and that 'always' , • makes things hectic. • Most newspers sOitt,. down, , eompletelY *fcir a week _Or\- two. •- annuaily- for :permit - the 'entire h • k • , • „ grand. *, Guaranteed Investment Certificates now! • Get yours today at..-. VG . . - The senior Trus't Co,npany devoted entirely to serving the people of Ontario. Mel and GREY TRUST COMPANY SINCE 1889 9:00 to 5:00 MoPday to Thursday 9:00 to 6:00 Friday Lealand Hill, Manager • • Elgin and Kingston Streets, Goderich 524-7381 • •• • WESTEEL ROSCO STEEL GRANARIES No to 5000 BUSHEL 4IZES, , ERECTING JACKS SUPPLIED AT NO. EXTRA CHARGE LOWRY BARN SUPPLY AMBERLEY RR 1, KINCARDINE PHONE 395-5286 . .9 e n mrater is r heritage.. espect •yo Did you know tfiat Ontario has more fresh water „than any other part of Canada - even the world? And did you know that this "Fresh" water is becoming polluted? 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