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Title |
Colborne Street, 1930s |
Description |
Now called Lakeshore Road East. Shows early Loblaws grocery store and a Lakeshore Bus along the left of the picture. Input received from Bob Heath on the small black dot suspended over the middle of Lakeshore Road at Thomas Street in this picture: "Once upon a time there was only one police patrol car and one policeman on duty in the evening and night shifts. No two way radios then, no one in the police station to answer the phone. Almost all phone calls were handled by the old manual switch board at the corner of Randall and Dundas St. (now Trafalgar Road). If a call for police came in during those off hours a switch board operator would turn on a light, a red light. And guess where that was. The often sole police officer on duty, seeing the red light on would go to the telephone switch building to get the message. That light could be seen from near Douglas Ave to past Kerr St. My Dad saw it often on his night shifts in the only available police patrol car in the early 50s." |
Date |
1930/ / |
Catalog Number |
1978.68.15 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Search Terms |
Lakeshore Road Colburne Street Downtown Oakville Cars Bus Bus Station Postcard Transit |
Neg # |
01174 |