Brown's Store Christmas Card - Mazinaw Lake
Don Brown remembers: "The store was perched on the shoulder of the road directly across from "The Pines" at Brown's Park. It was a tiny place with basics and gas. The building had living quarters in the south end. There was a porch and a deck overlooking the lake. It was one of the most ramshackle, unsafe structures I've ever seen.
I supposed I weighed about 50 pounds back then and I was afraid to walk on it. The store was managed by Irv and Gene Brown until they built their own store two miles north and my sister Ruth Lloyd and lastly, a man named Matt McLeod.
One photo shows my father and long time guest Major Gerow and the aforementioned McLeod. It's also a good shot of the old hand lever "Supertest" gas pump. When Hwy 41 was improved and widened around 1952 or 53 my father (Bryce Brown) moved the building down the hill to the beach where it lived out its life as cottage number 8".
Part of the Brown Family Album.
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Brown's Store Christmas Card - Mazinaw Lake
Don Brown remembers: "The store was perched on the shoulder of the road directly across from "The Pines" at Brown's Park. It was a tiny place with basics and gas. The building had living quarters in the south end. There was a porch and a deck overlooking the lake. It was one of the most ramshackle, unsafe structures I've ever seen.
I supposed I weighed about 50 pounds back then and I was afraid to walk on it. The store was managed by Irv and Gene Brown until they built their own store two miles north and my sister Ruth Lloyd and lastly, a man named Matt McLeod.
One photo shows my father and long time guest Major Gerow and the aforementioned McLeod. It's also a good shot of the old hand lever "Supertest" gas pump. When Hwy 41 was improved and widened around 1952 or 53 my father (Bryce Brown) moved the building down the hill to the beach where it lived out its life as cottage number 8".
Part of the Brown Family Album.
Note: All CDHS Flickr content is available for the public use (non-commercial) providing our Rights Statement is followed: