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    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2008
     
    A heck of a long time ago, 1930's, long before I came along.... (yes even before me!)
    there was a fellow down at the Forks area along the riverbank who had a little shack sort of dug into the mud. My dad does not recall ever knowing what the man's name was, but this fella ran a very unofficial swimming club, taught swimming, safety, and a host of other things. Could you check with your parents, uncles or anyone at all to find out that person's name? Dad is curious and is 85 yrs young, just one of those things that would be interesting to know.
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      CommentAuthorSputnik
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2008
     
    maybe it was this guy?

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    Mono - I tried googling it, this was all I could come up with as far as Winnipeg Swim Clubs in 1930s go...
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      CommentAuthorGoth_chic
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2008
     
    Posted By: Sputnikmaybe it was this guy?



    That is just creepy. I like Family Guy but everytime that old perv is on I feel the need to change the channel.
    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2008
     
    This is a serious question, people. This was an otherwise homeless man that the CN knew was there but never bothered with him at all.
    Dad is hoping that someone out there in Winnipeg will also remember who he was.
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    • CommentAuthorDeanK
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2008
     
    Ask Harvey... he should probably remember
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      CommentAuthorjim
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2008
     
    Check with the CN retirment clubs or maybe the older employes, as they may have access to someone who knows
    • CommentAuthorwolfboy
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2008
     
    ... and it might be a long hard slog through years of the Free Press archives, but I'd bet that someone wrote about him at some point.

    Ask Val Werier about it, if you can get hold of him...
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    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: jim</cite>Check with the CN retirment clubs or maybe the older employes, as they may have access to someone who knows</blockquote> Try the Rail Museum at the Via station. Lots of CN retirees would be part of that. I will check out some of the books and things I have (once I unpack) to see if I can find anything about it.
    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    Dad also remembers walking all over the city when he was just a kid. Walked from Sherburn and Ellice out to City Park on Wellington Crescent each weekend for years.
    He remembers mothers leaving their babies in the strollers on the west side of Eaton's and the Bay, while they went shopping; no one ever bothered the children.
    At one time there was a childrens' playground in good weather up on the roof of Eaton's downtown staffed by registered nurses, again while the mothers went shopping.
    What a testament to our so-called progress as a society where now, we don't DARE let out children out of our sight for even a second, because some creep is just around the corner.
    Time to get tough with the criminals, show no mercy at all.
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    Posted By: MonomintoWhat a testament to our so-called progress as a society where now, we don't DARE let out children out of our sight for even a second, because some creep is just around the corner.


    No, because if you leave your child alone you'll get charged with child abuse.
    • CommentAuthorDeanK
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2008
     
    "He remembers mothers leaving their babies in the strollers on the west side of Eaton's and the Bay, while they went shopping; no one ever bothered the children. "

    That is just bizarre
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      CommentAuthorcancelbot
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2008
     
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    Posted By: DeanKThat is just bizarre


    Exactly...I call BS.

    And if this DID actually happen on a regular basis, then all I have to say is that a negligent parent is a negligent parent, whether they left their kid in a buggy outside Eaton's, or sitting in a car in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
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      CommentAuthorsmjpilot
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2008
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: Monominto</cite>He remembers mothers leaving their babies in the strollers on the west side of Eaton's and the Bay, while they went shopping; no one ever bothered the children.</blockquote>No one got caught...
    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2008
     
    That was WAY back in the 1930's and 40's , certainly not recently.
    As I have said, "my dad remembers".
    My late mother has also told me of those times, Eaton's also had a bank of tables in their store, where you could write a letter, put it in an envelope, and Eaton's would post it for you.
    I've seen the young ladies, in uniform, who served you tea, coffee and biscuits in that area as well. I was just 5 at that time, but even I remember that!
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      CommentAuthorGoth_chic
    • CommentTimeMay 5th 2008
     
    I was watching 20/20 a few weeks back and they were doing a story on Denmark....women will leave the babies in strollers outside while they go in for coffee with friends. That's the way it is there....supposedly Denmark is one of the Happiest places to live on the planet.
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    Isn't Denmark the home of Legoland?!

    (Never mind, answered my own question...)
    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
     
    cancelbot? perhaps sometime you and my dad can get together and he'll tell you about the Bay and Eaton's stores customer service?
    Eaton's also had a HUGE catalog order business, absolutely everything you could buy in the store was available with delivery, the horse-drawn wagons leaving from the stables on Graham Avenue, with harnesses and hooves of the horses polished till they gleamed. Not just once a day, twice, with the horses that went in the morning not going out again till the next day. I have no idea how many were in that building.
    You could order a full home from there, delivered to your property, everything from simple sheds, to 6 or 8 bedroom homes, including foundations, with exact instructions on how to assemble as all the pieces were numbered.
    As for the strollers being left in the "Mall" area of both businesses, no one ever bothered the babies back then, call it BS if you wish, but I rather think I'll believe my dad on that one. ok?
    • CommentAuthorMonominto
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
     
    Does anyone have true stories from their own parents?
    • CommentAuthorDeanK
    • CommentTimeMay 7th 2008
     
    yeah wasnt there a house just outside Winnipeg last year that was declared a heritage site because it was one of the largest homes ever purchased from the Eatons Catalogue and it was still standing?

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