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AYLMER, PORT BURWELL, COPENHAGEN, PORT BURWELL & PORT ROWAN
Serving great OLD
FASHIONED FLAVOURS
since the 1940’s!
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Open Daily 11am-8pm
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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
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Naval History
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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)
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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
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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.
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9600 Walker Rd., RR#4 • AYLMER
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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!
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Edge
Table
HANDCRAFTED
EXCELLENCE -
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to your style!
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Wall Unit
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OUTDOOR
FURNITURE
Rustic
Wood or
Recycled
Plastic
Composite
CUSTOM
CABINETRY
in our showroom
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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)
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