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RE: Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest - jeffster - 04-18-2020
(04-18-2020, 04:50 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(04-18-2020, 02:56 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Any idea what it’s like? Any historical or architectural interest?
I want to say that it was kind of a standard issue red brick commercial building, but my memory of it is pretty vague. Wasn’t the storefront a children’s clothing store at one time?
It probably was at some point, as I seem to recall that too. It also was some sort of ski shop before Oktoberfest took it.
The building I don't remember being anything special. Yet, somehow, it was made into something that looked worse. Fake windows...like...wow.
RE: Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest - tomh009 - 04-19-2020
(04-18-2020, 09:59 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(04-18-2020, 09:00 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Riordan Ski & Sport! But that was a looooong time ago ...
Yes, I remember Riordan's, but I was thinking that it was children's clothing before that. Could be wrong - memories do fade.
I think Riordan's was in the 70s/80s, anything before that is beyond my memory horizon!
RE: Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest - panamaniac - 04-19-2020
(04-19-2020, 09:33 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(04-18-2020, 09:59 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Yes, I remember Riordan's, but I was thinking that it was children's clothing before that. Could be wrong - memories do fade.
I think Riordan's was in the 70s/80s, anything before that is beyond my memory horizon!
My earliest DTK recollection would be going in to Kresge's at age six to buy my Mom a rhinestone brooch for Christmas - it was ugly as sin and I remember being thrilled to be buying it with "my own money". I still have the brooch, which I saved when we cleared out my mother's home.
Actually, I have a vague memory of sitting in the window inside the old Waterloo Trust (King/Ontario) and singing a hymn at the top of my voice while my mother did her banking - I couldn't have been more than four years old, which would take it (just) to the 1950s in DTK!