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118 AVENUE-63-64-STREETS

 

 

 

 

  

6327-118 AVENUE NW !

Now an apartment

Now part of 6307- but 6327 was here!

1915-16 Highlands Hardware

 

 

6401 118 AVENUE NW
 

2020-06-15: Noticed Developmemt permit had been issued for  a store and a restaurant

2018-04-12- After some considerable delay the lot has been cleared, now waiting for new business to start....

2023-02-16 Construction started late inn 2023.   
     

 

 

 

 

 

6401 118 AVENUE NW

 

2112-? AD Motors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1970-1972 Alcom Electronics

1968-1969 Sound & Music/Ben's Book Exchange

1965-1967 Livingstone Floor Co. Ltd.

1961-? Totem Upholsterers

1937-1949 Williams Grocery & Meats

1934-1935 Gilbert King Grocery & PO

1931-1932 James Aldam Grocery & PO.

1921-1930 Thomas Young Grocery & PO

1917-1921 Thomas Young Grocery

1915-1916 Highlands Grocery

6401a

1940-1941 August Hein Shoe Repair

2017-09-03: Over the last several years there have been some changes to the lot, none very good.  For the last years or two this has been the scene. It appears to be both 'unitdy and unsighly' and a possible Land Use Bylaw violation. The city is investigating.    

 

 
6403-118 AVENUE NW
OCTOBER 23, 2011 John Tidridge received the following information via e-mail: The sender did not wished to be credited or mentioned on the web page. It is an interesting piece of Highlands history
George Young and his wife Ollie

1948-1949 Avenue Shoe Repair

1934-1935 Highlands Radio Service

1933-1934 Nick Holowchak Shoe Repair

1930-1931 Lawrence Stone Butcher

1921-1922 Stone's Meats

1915-1916 Highlands Meat Market

 

 
 
6411-118 AVENUE NW
Centre One

004-2012 Center One Beauty Salon>

2003-2010 LL Clothing & Things

2004-2005 Golden Touch Tanning

2009-2011 Inner Beauty

1998-2003 Alberta Farriers Supplies

1980-1987 Tall Horse Saddlery

1975-1979 Vacant

1974-1975 Sieben New & Used Secondhand store

1973-1974 Vacant

1970-1972 Ray's Music

1968- Vacant

1963-1967 Avenue Shoe Repair

1961-1963 Horon's Barber Shop/Avenue Shoe Repair

1951-1953 Avenue Shoe Repair

1951-1952 Annex Variety Store

From Farrier To Hair Salon Service .John Tidridge

Centre One 18 Beauty Salon and LL Clothing and Fine Things

6411-118 Avenue NW

1-780-471-2919

I was talking to my son-in-law Tuppy Tyler that I had dropped of a questionnaire at the "new'" Hair Salon on 118 Avenue at 64 Street. He told me it was  hardly new but had moved from 118 Avenue and 54 Street. He knew Marline and was sure she would help us out. I have but a fleeting interest in hair ... but, here we go ....

Marline Lake, wife of Nathaniel and mother of four children has re-opened at the above location. Marline who won the Canadian National Griot Award (in the trade) in October 2003, offers full, professional hair salon services. "If you are unhappy with your hair, come in and see us we will make you happy"

Educated in the West Indies and Canada, Marline has been practising her craft since 1984. Her salon specializes in hair extension, perm, colour, healing scalp problems and many more areas associated with having good hair.

The salon (along with Marline) offers a friendly, warm relaxing and inviting atmosphere to all. She had found the Highlands (and Bellevue) people friendly and invites them to drop in to check out the services and take time for a coffee.

Along with the Salon is an additional annex offering 'funky' clothes, and  regular stuff too, (! l ) along with African artifacts, black dolls and literature ... check both out when you visit.

 
 
 
 

6415-118 AVENUE NW  December 2, 2019

October 2013
September 2013
October 2013 Early September 2013
Still unoccupied...one wonders if it ever will be....no more new pictures until there is a noticeable change.    
November 2012 
October 13, 2012

6415-118 AVENUE NW  circa 2010

Some progress Still Be patient
   

2013 May (still under construction

c 2010 Under construction

2007- Cremco Ltd.

2001-2004 Njoy Carribean {sic} Restaurant

1961-1987 Darby Cleaners & Dye Works

 

DARBY & STAR-LITE John Tidridge

If you have travelled 118 Avenue on a regular basis over the last several years you will have noticed some changes to two business premises located on the south side of the avenue and west of 64 Street.

Coming from the east the first one would have been Darby Cleaners, who offered a first class cleaning service, with a very pleasant front desk staff. And, I am sure the owner was a regular at the plant sales put on by the 54th Cub Pack… but, as usual, I digress…

The store and grounds were maintained in good condition and the business was a credit to the area. Things however change, and the business moved downtown… the store was left abandoned and finally deteriorated to the point where it was torn down. In an article of a couple of years ago I learned that there would arise a building that would consist of ground floor retail and upper storey condos… progress has been slow and it now appears to be at a standstill…

Next door, having sat lonely and forlorn after having provided excellent service and Chinese food for many years, sits the former Star-lite Restaurant. William the owner sadly conceded it was almost impossible to get staff, having lost a former manager to illness. So he decided to give up the site.

My curiosity was piqued as I noted workers inside the building… then more recently, I noticed a man working in the front yard… adding to the signs asking for tradesmen. He told me the plans he knew of meant the roof of the building would be removed and condos built… there was no suggestion that the building would be joined to the old Darby Cleaners building which sit but inches from the building.

We shall see…

The old Darby Cleaners building has been an eye sore for more years  than I care to remember! I remember when it was busy and the window boxes packed with red geraniums, which some years were purchased from the 54th Highlands Baptist Cub Pack. I remember the lady who worked there; ever helpful and polite!

 Boldly displayed on the now empty plot is a sign, seeking tradesman. I called the number and had a good conversation with Nick Shostak, the owner of the land and the developer of the property. I learned that a walk-up condo building is planned, with a completion date in about 6 months. It will have a parkade and retail space on the main floor and two floors above that, capped by a good looking roof.

Permits have been issued. Suites will range in size from 700-1000 square feet.

 Mr. Shostak lives in the Highlands and wants the best for the neighbourhood. I am sure neighbours will be keeping on eye on the progress being made!

 Written sometime prior to October 2012

     

6421-118 Avenue NW

   
Sandal Wood Coffee Shop

2015-Pops Daycare and OSC

2013-14 Sandal Wood Coffee Shop

2012 Under re-construction

 

2010- Vacant Restaurant

 

1977-c 2010 Star-lite Restaurant

1975 Vacant

1965-1974 White Rose Grocery

 

 

 
 
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