Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
A2023.007 |
Title |
Mac's Snack Bar |
Object Name |
Mixed Media |
Date |
c. 1950s |
Collection |
Storey Family collection |
Scope & Content |
This collection consists of photographs and paper match advertisements of Mac's Snack Bar on Old Hamburg Road in Greater Napanee, including photographs of owners Mac and Jean Storey. |
Description Note |
Mac's Snack Bar was situated on the Old Hamburg Road, south east of the Town of Napanee. Mac and Jean Storey opened their business on July 16, 1950 and it was a very popular place to stop any night, for a snack after the show or dancing or to have a quick lunch. It first started with just evening hours and as the business picked up, they expanded their hours from 11 a.m. until 12 p.m. They served the best homemade hamburgers and fresh cut fries, hot dogs, soft drinks, milkshakes and good old fashioned ice cream in many flavours. Fish and chips were always a special. Inside the snack bar you sat up at a counter on stools. This little booth was always a friendly place to be and you would meet your neighbours there for lots of conversations. Mac even had his own advertisements on paper matches. David Johnson worked at the Snack Bar as a young lad. Years later he and his wife Jean started their own catering business "Jean Johnson Catering." They had a break-in in 1954. The thieves broke a window and stole chocolate bars, ice cream, an electric razor and $70 worth of cigarettes. Mac worked for years at Wilson's Hardware Store in downtown Napanee. He seemed to have the knack to be able to fix things; water pumps, oil burners, lawn mowers and he did deliveries for the store. Mac and Jean lived next door in the brick house, sharing half with Jean's parents Mr. and Mrs. Dier. Mac's family ran a construction business called Storey construction and they dealt with trucking gravel and crushing rock on the top of the Rock Cut at Napanee. On November 1960 a fire gutted the inside of the Snack Bar and the Storeys decided not to rebuild. Source: "Voices Volume 2 Stories from Adolphustown and Fredericksburgh" compiled by the Adolphustown-Fredericksburgh Heritage Society. |
Physical Description |
Four photograph prints Two advertisements 0.3 cm textual and photographic materials |