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The Daytripper TOWN NAME, TOWN NAME and another awesome TOWN NAME SHOP LOCAL Page 70 “For lifting purposes only” (label on the box of a car jack) Summer 2022
Lake Huron MI ONTARIO NY AYLMER, PORT BURWELL, COPENHAGEN, PORT BURWELL & PORT ROWAN Serving great OLD FASHIONED FLAVOURS since the 1940’s! Fresh, never frozen burgers! Open Daily 11am-8pm Find u us s at t ANDY’S S CORNERS! RS! 3710 Highway 59, , Langton, ON 519-875-2631 • www.andysdrivein.com Take Out, Dine In or Outside! Cash only. ATM on site. 72 3 Pitt St., Port Burwell 519-633-7641 GUIDED TOURS AVAILABLE HMCS OJIBWA The Museum of Naval History See website for current hours. www.hmcsojibwa.ca UPDATES & TICKETS ONLINE THE WOOD CONNECTION At Copenhagen's p Biggest i Store, , Where Your Project Is Our Specialty! Just t 11km 1km South t of Aylmer 519-773-9049 - 73-9 -904 •Old Fashioned •Old Fashioned Banana Splits•Soft Banana Splits•Milkshakes•Soft Ice Cream, including Chocolate, Ice Cream•Sundaes Vanilla & Twist •Milkshakes•Sundaes •Frozen Yogurt•Homemade •Frozen Yogurt•Homemade Waffle Cones Waffle Cones & Belgium & Belgium Waffles Waffles Open Daily! I hated those rotten kids. Looking back, maybe I was being a little heavy on them, but at the time I felt quite within my rights. You see, there were Just two kinds of families and they were part of the other kind. I grew up in the east end of London, Ontario, in the Ealing School area, and it wasn’t exactly what you could call a hot-house raising. Our summer feet never knew the meaning of the word shoes and our favourite playground was the Egerton Street city dump. No, not a sanitary landfill site, just a plain old city dump. Needless to say, our boyhood ways produced a fair number of war wounds and this brings us to the remedy. Mv father, who referred to himself as the Old Man and was affectionately referred to by the same term, was tough. During his life, he knew only two kinds of work, - steel and construction. On my birth certificate, dated just after the First World War, his occupation was listed as “rougher,” a person who, with hand tongs, fed red hot steel through the HOURS: 11am to 9:30pm Summer: Open Daily (Open Friday to Sunday in April and from Labour Day to Thanksgiving) BUS TOURS WELCOME 519-586-7994 1028 Bay St., Port Rowan Two Kinds of Families by Gordon Lane, London from Daytripping, May-June 2000 rolls at the London Rolling Mills. During the last half of the Twenties, he worked construction - bricklayer, plasterer, and carpenter. In his book, there was only one remedy for cuts and scratches and if it didn’t hurt, it wasn’t any good. We were an “iodine” family. Even the look of the iodine bottle presented quite a spectacle. The bottle was brown, matching the colour of its contents. It always had a rubber cork (any other type would dissolve) with a glass dip stick to apply the remedy. The Old Man could never be bothered with the dip stick. He held the cut open with one hand, with the other he poured a dollop from the bottle right into the cut uttering the consoling words, “There, kid, that ought to fix it.” Even the label was one to remember. It was usually well stained and pictured the Jolly Roger above the plainly printed word POISON. As I recall, it came in several strengths and the Old Man always bought the best, the large economy size that improved with age and as it neared the bottom of the • Quality Woodworking Tools, Supplies & Hardware • Unique Custom Made Wooden Carved Signs • Tole Painting Supplies • Kempston Router Bits • Lang Calendars • Country Home Candles • Unfinished DIY Wood Crafts, Birdhouses, Gifts, Crafts AND a General Store! OPEN: MON., WED. to SAT. 9-6 • SUN. 10-5 • CLOSED TUES. bottle, there was no doubt about it. As a kid, I would have enjoyed a little sympathy on some of those occasions, especially from uncles and aunts, but the summer sun tan mixed with a little dirt was a matched colour for iodine and besides, the Old Man wasn’t one to waste things. He poured the remedy into the cut. There was no free advertising. Sympathizers never knew we were wounded, but we did, especially when the Old Man applied the cure. Then there were the other families. Their kids came to school with their whole knees painted vermillion red. They might as well have carried signs reading “I hurt myself.” These kids were from “mercurochrome” families. They were usually rich kids. They wore shoes and dressed like the kids in the Eatons catalogue. Their families must have been doctors or lawyers or owned a corner grocery store. They probably owned cars too, and had a radio at home with a loud speaker and I hated them. I didn’t know too much about mercurochrome. It sure looked good and you could see it a block away. Then it happened. I was running down a street in a For Over 15 Years! The “White Pass” Train replica runs in the store! PORT BRUCE AYLMER Hwy. 3 John Wise COPENHAGEN 5048 Imperial Rd. section of better homes than ours, when I stubbed my big toe. It was a dandy. I peeled off most of the tread and some of the meat. The blood started dripping and I started to hobble home on my heel when lady luck came to my rescue. Two nice little old ladies from the verandah of a two-storey red brick house took me in tow. They took me into their kitchen and washed my foot in warm water they got right out of the tap. Then came the mercurochrome. I gritted my teeth and took a firm grip on the chair. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. There was no pain and they put plenty on, even on the outside of the bandage. I liked that. They gave me milk and fancy cookies. We never had either at home. The milk at home was just for the tea. As I limped home I knew there were just two kinds of families - “iodine” families and “mercurochrome” families, and ours was an “iodine” family. And the “mercurochrome” families? I hated them, yes I hated those kids; imagine all that sympathy and no pain. But as I look back, I have no regrets. You see, we had something else. We had love and we had the Old Man, and he was something else. He was terrific. HANDCRAFTED SOLID WOOD FURNITURE 9600 Walker Rd., RR#4 • AYLMER 519-765-4771 to leave message GPS address for directions: 9600 Walker Road, Malahide, ON N5H 2R3 to St. Thomas Highway #73 North to London AYLMER Hacienda Rd. Glencolin Line Highway #3 Springfield Rd. Walker Rd. Carter Side Rd. to Tillsonburg Traditional, Contemporary & outdoors! Live Edge Table HANDCRAFTED EXCELLENCE - Customized to your style! LOCALLY MADE! Dalton Style Wall Unit Barn Door Style Sliders s OUTDOOR FURNITURE Rustic Wood or Recycled Plastic Composite CUSTOM CABINETRY in our showroom oom We’re closed Mondays, Wednesdays & Sundays • April to October: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm • November to March: 9 to 5 Summer 2022 “Do not put lit candles on phone” (note on instruction sheet for cordless phone) Page 71
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