Petey’s Films • Manville Businesses
This next episode of Petey’s film’s really strikes a personal chord with me, and not just because it’s about Manville. You all know that I’ve been sharing the old Manville News issues on here thanks to the good graces and help of Kevin Shutack. Kevin’s family owned the local print shop, which produced the town’s first newspapers, which is why he had them laying around all this time. As a graphic designer, part time letterpress printer, and employee at a local newspaper, I was floored at the opening scene of this video being the old Manville News. Now that I’ve spent the year archiving these I get to actually watch them being produced! Not only that, but I get to watch them being printed on a letterpress machine, and using a Linotype machine, old printing methods which I also happen to be in the practice of doing myself as a hobby. Anyway, not to focus too much on one section, this video highlights a few other businesses in the Manville area, including London Fur Dyeing Company, (cigar maker?), liquor store, Lloyd Garment Company (21 South 3rd Ave). As always if anyone can elaborate on these films please leave a comment! Thanks again to Gary Carmon for digitally archiving and sharing these!
January 30, 2012 at 4:31 pm
There was a cigar factory on Camplain Road, 2 doors from S. 7th Ave on the North side of the street. The building still stands, almost directly across Camplain from Mary’s Market (or whatever it’s called these days).
It’s now a residential building, with a basement door and a couple windows facing Camplain.
As a kid, we’d walk past the old cigar factory almost every school day. The building was run-down, the lot overgrown, but there was still a faded sign on the building identifying it as a cigar factory.
It was renovated to it’s current use in the 70s or 80s.
January 30, 2012 at 6:45 pm
I was wondering where that place was! thanks!