
June 1951
As will be seen in a full page advertisement elsewhere In this issue of the paper, Mr. Mel Lockhart has opened a new service station, Snack bar and grocery store at the far end of Ottawa Street. Here he will sell White Rose gasoline and lubricants. For a good many years, Mr. Lockhart ran the same kind of business in a much more modest establishment at the end of the street just outside the town limits.
His new building is quite large, of cement block construction and accommodates a garage, the snack bar and store, a modern kitchen on the ground floor rear and overhead a very fine apartment. The new filling station has all the latest improvements, including a mechanical hoist for greasing cars. This will be the first establishment of its kind to greet people driving into town on highway 44, the short route from Ottawa.
And by the inverse process, it will be the last on their way out. Highway 44 is now under reconstruction and will be finished this fall, though the black top will probably not be applied until next year when the surface settles. The traffic over this road always has been very heavy and will be heavier still after the link from Almonte to the union with highway 17 at Carp has been modernized.
In addition to conducting a service station, Mr. Lockhart proposes to do garage work and will have a mechanic for that purpose. The appointments of the snack bar are very modern as is everything else about the establishment. The kitchen, where food will be prepared, is one of the streamlined kind where everything moves along as if on an assembly line. The apartment upstairs is one of the finest in Almonte, with lots of light and a couple of picture windows.

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I’m not sure if this is in Almonte but I have a couple of photos which shows a White Rose Service Station in the background. The photo on the left has my uncle, Mervin Tosh, & my father, Hartley Tosh in it. The photo on the right has my mother, Anne Tosh, in it.

Documenting the Golden Eagle Gas Bar — Mill Street
Break In! Thurston’s Garage and Lunch Bar
Movin’ on Mill Street– Supertest Building
My Fondest Memories of Almonte –Marty Taylor
The Crater Lot on Mill Street — Peterson and Dr. Metcalfe