DELMER & CECIL DELMER AND CECIL Gidday, and welcome to the


exciting spring edition of Bounder magazine! Cecil here. I was thinking the other day about days gone by and some of the things that have disappeared from our lives never to return.


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& 44 BOUNDER MAGAZINE How many of you remember Pure


Spring Beverage Co? They were down on Preston St., right across the street from the Prescott Hotel. They were famous for their ginger ale but had all sorts of flavours that used to be in all the corner stores. Here are some of the ones I


remember: Minted Grape; Cuban Cola; Honeydew Orange; Lemon Lime; Swiss Cream Soda (It was red. Most people preferred the clear cream soda from SnowWhite, but it was harder to find); Spruce Beer; Abenakis Mineral Water; Hawaiian Punch; Up-Town; and I’m sure there were others. Other flavours from other outfits were Root Beer (Hires); Fruit Punch (Excel); Gini; Brio Chinotto; Birch Beer; Lime Ricky; John Collins….and the list goes on. How many of you remember


playing shinny on the street using frozen horse balls as pucks? Of course the horse balls were easy to find because the milk was delivered by horse and cart. The drivers could almost go to sleep because the horses knew all


the stops cold. I remember giving old Billy (the horse on our route) an apple every Friday. The outdoor rinks always had


shacks with a pot-bellied stove cranked right up til it was red hot. A lot of great hockey players came out of those old parks. Some went on to the NHL. I remember the streetcars when


I was a kid running along Byron Ave out to Britannia. How about going to the Exhibition and coming home with a couple of shopping bags full of free samples? Another feature back then were


all the movie theatres. Remember the Regent at Bank and Sparks, the Centre on Sparks, the Capital on Bank, the Odeon on Bank, the Rialto (Rathole) on Bank, the Mayfair (still there) on Bank, the Strand on Bank, the Imperial on Bank, the Rideau, the Linden, the Francais, the Parkdale, the Somerset? There were some others that have slipped my mind. I remember the bill at the Rialto


one week (five movies for 25 cents): The Blood of Dracula, Invaders from Mars, Curse of Frankenstein, I was a Teenage Werewolf and Pinnochio. Then there were the drive-ins, too numerous to count. I remember one of the first Rock


‘n’ Roll bands in Ottawa called “The Jive Rockets” and of course that ageless wonder….Hugh Scott, still going strong since the 50s. I remember “Oak Door”, “Pineland” and all the community and church dances . When you were a kid, do you


remember looking for empty pop bottles and heading for the corner store to cash them in for penny candy? Some of the candy was: spearmint leaves,


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