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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-07-07, Page 39LEI US. MAKE YOUR OLD FURNITURE BETTER .THAN NEW Fora free estimate and a . look at our newest samples of material CALL: COOK UPHOLSTERY PH. 523-4272 R. COOK Prop. ' BLYTH"- Put your upholstering, ±' needs -in our hands i WE HAVE FREE PICK-UP AND'DEL,IVERY SERVICE (SAVE 1a FAGE1OA- GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1977 sesquicentennial celebration, Many thanks Dear Editor, The_ Jubilee _ Three celebrations and many festivities are well underway now in honour of our towns 150th Birthday and we, of the Jubilee Three Bed Racing Committee, would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who assisted us in making our event a most successful day for all. The turn -out for this competition• both in spectators and en- trants was overwhelming indeed. We wish to openly thank Carling O'Keefe and Saltford Valley Hall Inc. 'for their kind donations towards the trophies, plaques and prize money. We would'also like to thank the following mer- chants in our town for donating various other _consolation prizes to the winners: Glenmark Lumber, Green & Parent Ford Mercury Sales Limited, Reg McGee & Sons Limited, Strickland Toyota, Dominion Road Machinery Co. ltd., Jim Hayter Chev. Olds Limited, Goderich Fina Sales & Service and Gord Munroe. A special thank you goes to the Corporation of the Town of Coderich itself and its employees who have doney a tremendous job throughout the entire week and our personal thank you goes to our fine Police Department as well as our judges for "Most Original" bed, Mrs. Eileen Palmer and Mrs: Elsa Haydon. - Thanks, Goderich, for letting us be a part of your" Sesquicentennial celebrations! Phil Turner Ross Pannabecke• and Bill Crawford. Looking back pear Editor, ''i~°'co'P' `those of my generation who return to Goderich for its Erosion it comes as a bit of a shock to realize that we will be among the `old boys and girls", not exactly ready to ride with the octogenarians, but not likely to -run in .the 100 yard dash either. When I speak of my generation, I am taking in anyone born within five years of 1920, before or after, and who grew up in the friendly lakeport in the twenties and so called "dirty thirties". - One of my earliest recollections was during Goderich's centennial celebration in 1927 when the Square was blocked off to traffic and the town bleW its stack in a way that would put today's more sophisticated celebrations. to shame. I cap recall falling into a line of costumed aduh merry- makers as they followed' a pickup band around the square, singing "Hail, hail the gang's all here", I remember looking up at my older brother as I clutched him by the hand and saying "They shouldn't say "hell", should they Joe?". Goderich in the 20's and 30's was like most small towns, relatively busy in the sum- mer with the "rich people" coming up from the big cities to open up the summer cot- tages which lined the town's lakefront and a few tourists trickling north along the Bluewater road, nothing like, the mad caravans that clog Highway 21 today. Even though the automobile was coming into greater use, one could walk down the tree -lined streets on -a summer evening un- ,�disturbed by screeching tires and with a feeling of tranquility that can be found in only a very rural setting now: In the winter, most automobile owners put their cars up on blocks in their garage and w#ited until the roads were ready to receive them again in the spring. Most delivering was done by horse and sleigh in the winter and one of the.biggest joys for young boys was to hitch a ride with our small sleighs behind the sleigh of a grocer going from 'the square to the west end of town and then catching an empty coal delivery sleigh all the way back to the east end. We didn't know what girls did in the winter, nor were we much interested at that age. The town constabulary consisted of Dick Postlewaite on duty as Chief in the daytime and Art Ross, patrolling the square on foot at night. As small boys, we looked upon Dick with some - fear when he ordered us off the sidewalks with our bicycles. I believe we saw Art as a more approachable person. Almost every boy raised in Goderich learned to swim, not with the 'aid of an in- structor, nor under the watchful eye of a life -guard, because the Judith Gooderham pool waS not In existance in those days. We learned 'as our fathers had probably learned before ,us, without bathing suits in the shallow parts of the Maitland River, graduating to Piper's' Dam when we figured we + from page 9.\ and creeks, Mr. Alexander said. Provisions should be made to train back -hoe operators in drainage installation and repair. so that they would be available as sub -contractors for hire by ditch and tile contractors., Tile installers and ditch contractors should be trained in rip -rap con- struction, and other erosion control measures, he felt.,• ' Bulletins on erosion control should be made available to farmers, Mr. Alexander said. The, only bulletin available was compiled 17 years ago, he said. "Somewhere within our ministries, we need -trained soil conservationists like -they have in the Soil Con-. servation Service in the United States. Some con- " suiting engineering firms have no trained soil con- servationists on their staffs," he said. Aftera brief discussion, Federation members decided to refer the matter to the land use committee to draw up a resolution. 'could swim a hundred feet without drowning and ultimately to the beach and harbour, for which we had to acquire bathing suits. Youngsters of the thirties learned to platy hockey on open air rinks and soft -ball on any field large enough to contain a ball diamond. There were no organized leagues or_ divisions r_- divisions as we ,know them today. In hockey, you played Junior dt 16, if you were good enough, and went into in- termediate ranks at the age of 20. Juvenile divf jons came about in both sports toward the end of the decade. The old West Street arena jailkej� JUB,LEE 3 PARADE NEW STARTING TIME 1 p.m. sharp SATURDAY, JULY 9 Parade Route , Starts on Highway 8 (Huron Road) to Elgin Avenue,. to Stoplights,- down Kingston Street to The Square, around The Square to South Street, down South Street 5 blocks to Blake Street, west (right) on Blake Street to Mc- Donald Street, to Agricultural Park. Following The Parade: BAND TATTOO (approximately 4 p.m.) FISH FRY 3:30 p.m. 40000111 was home ice for the "Sailors" as all Goderich teams were called then.,The natural ice was fine until an early spring thaw set in and playoffs were often marred by soft ice more adequate for water polo. In the summer, •basettall games started around- 6;00 o'clock and, as there' were - neither floodlights nor daylight saving _-time ...then, - most games had to be called along about the seventh in- nings, because of darkness. Considering the fact that most people worked longer hours in those days, the baseball games attracted surprisingly large crowds,. Harness horse racing was confined to one big meet- a year, that being held On Civic holiday. Goderich had a priority on that day in all of Western Ontario. Ramona Gratton , and Sid Hal, Doc Whiteley's speedsters were the pride of the Lakeport in the early thirties. • High school was a rather trattolatic,,Axp.erlence,. for a_ teenager then, as it is now, especially if you carne from the separate school and you had to get along with those guys 'from Central and Vic- toria • that you had 'fought ,< pitched, battles with in previous years. Among my teachers best remembered at the old G.D.I; are Mad. "Ackermair , o taught me both English and Frenh and, could never figure how a boy could gat 80, 'in English and 10 in., French,;, Turn to page I IA ,... GOO lcH,' 524-wo7s t., representing Sidewalk Special BEACH. TOWELS.. 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