- = Wednesday, June t,

TH fe) 1950 aerial view of Edgemont Village illustrates by ‘comparison the vast ‘number of cena thal hiave oc

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4 curred In in the he now-bustling commercial centre. :

“SOME. ‘THINGS’ ‘never

Village

“in 30 years.

Many. of Mattes ' memories.
= come from’ when he worked as a

yard man, truck .driver,

« “everything ‘and anything, you

-name’ it,’ inthe 1950s and ‘60s.

- He remembers ‘when, the ‘lumber

“yard first opened. *

For/the first, (wo years there’,
and. myself” .

was, just Mr. Curr
(working full-time /at‘the. yard).””
Grant Curri¢e.was the owner of the
lumber yard, buit-he: also served as

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: i .
, At that time, the store drew cus-

tomers: from as'far away/as Deep ‘
Cove all the way to Lions Bay.

Now, with nine full-lime and two
part-time employces ‘/ Hollyburn
Lumber ‘still caters toa large local
clientele, evenitola, few: customers
who shopped la the yard in the
1950s and 60s: , :
But .with: more ‘ocimpetitior
e the aica,
“larger, lumber: yards,- Mattes’ notes
that, people “tend to shop around
* more.” However, M tes Says the
“store is now. “cultivating a new set
of: customers: who’
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