Well I hope everyone is having fun in the summer sun!! I have been having a ball! I played an interesting gig over the Canada Day weekend, on the roof of the Stoney Creek Dairy Bar. That's right, the roof. Stoney Creek Dairy, does that bring back memories for you? If you grew up in Hamilton then I'm sure it does, because they have been there, serving ice cream for 78 years! As a kid it was one of our favorite treats, to take a ride out to Stoney Creek and get a banana split or a double fudge sunday, or just a huge cone of the finest ice cream ever. With about 119 different choices it was always a difficult decision as to which flavor to get. You could choose 3 scoops of different flavors on the same cone if you wanted. It seemed like a long drive in those days. We would usually sit in the car in our pajamas and eat our treat and watch the movie that was playing at the drive-in, just a couple of farmer's fields over. The drive-in theatre is long gone, so are the farmers fields,but the memories will never die. My Dad took me and I took my kids and as I looked down from the roof on Canada Day, I could see hundreds of young families creating their own happy memories. Thank you Stoney Creek Dairy for 78 years of family fun and great ice cream! It would be interesting to know how many folks still have one of those trays that say "stolen from Stoney Creek Dairy" on them. They were made of metal and were just perfect for making those home-maid pizzas that came in a box. Do you remember making those pizzas? They changed the trays to plastic around 1970. Those trays didn't work so good in the oven!
Playing on the roof was like a step back in time for me, because on the May 24th long weekend in 1959 I was playing on the roof of the snack bar at the Starlight Drive-in Theatre, with a band called "Jerry Warren and The Tremblers" and it was snowing! The Tremblers had a hit record out at the time called "Tremble". They opened Lakeland pool that summer by playing a record-breaking rock & roll marathon, playing non stop rock and roll for 87 hours straight (or something like that)! I remember they took away the piano player in an ambulance! Those were the Days.......... Cheers Sonny
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Great post about your Stoney Creek Dairy memories. They brought back mine, back in the mid-60s when I worked there as a pimply kid for a time. All three of my sisters did, too. And it was a good place to chill after gigs at the Stoney Creek United Church hall.
I recall the switch from metal trays to the yellow plastic things. Not nearly as neat, but much cheaper.
I can also remember sneaking in the back of the drive in behind Collegiate Avenue school to make mischief and see what was going on behind all those steamy windows.
Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Howard Elliott | July 09, 2007 at 12:08 PM