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Interview of B. Scheaffer and J. Atkins by R. Ormerod Sept 26, 2003

And that you are quite right, it reached its zenith in the late thirties, at one time on a Saturday night in Kirkland Lake you could not walk on the sidewalk. So many people going back and forth. Truly unbelievable. And we lived on the main street, on Government Road - and we would, my sister and I, would get out of bed and look out the window and because we had that frontage where people could sit on the cement walk in front of the house. It was always packed. There were always people . . . hundreds, thousands of people.