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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: David Shilman on August 09, 2010, 07:16:33 PM

Title: Question about Grenadier Pond
Post by: David Shilman on August 09, 2010, 07:16:33 PM

I know some of you check out High Park occasionally.  When I was a kid, row boats were rented there.  I now see that NO boats are allowed on the pond.  Anyone know when this happened?

Thanks!

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Post by: Bird Brain on August 10, 2010, 09:35:06 AM

David ... I believe it closed down somewhere around the late 80's, perhaps 1987 or 1988.  Do I ever miss going out in the middle of Grenadier Pond in a rowboat and having a picnic!  The boat rental place was so great!  

Jo-Anne  :)

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Post by: David Shilman on August 10, 2010, 03:26:51 PM

Bummer.  My father used to take my sister and me fishing there as kids.  This was in the 60s.  We used to catch sunfish.

Title: Grenadier Pond
Post by: JimmyM on August 10, 2010, 04:06:23 PM

David  ,  Jo-Anne ,
I too have very fond memories of the Pond .
My father and I used to fish there in the late 50's . We packed all of our gear and lunch on the the motor cycle usually on a saturday early AM , caught our minnow bait across the road from Grenadier - at Catfish Pond then still fished with floats for crappy (we called them calico bass ), then returned home for a fish fry which tasted really terrific.
Remember the Star fishing derby.
Jim

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Post by: Bird Brain on August 10, 2010, 08:56:04 PM

David and Jim.  When I was a kid, late 60's/early 70's, I remember going to High Park and seeing lots of fishermen on the large dock.  On Sundays (?), there were singers, bands and orchestras performing on this dock and people would be sitting on the hillside enjoying the music, watching the "red train" go by, etc.  

Jo-Anne  :D

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Post by: David Shilman on August 11, 2010, 07:03:10 PM

Memories, like the corners of my mind...   :lol:

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Post by: Bird Brain on August 11, 2010, 10:09:36 PM

Quote from: "David Shilman"

Memories, like the corners of my mind...   :lol:

David, this one for you ...  :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoBTEUeuyYQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoBTEUeuyYQ)

Jo-Anne  :D

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Post by: David Shilman on August 11, 2010, 10:15:37 PM

Quote from: "Bird Brain"

David, this one for you ...  :lol:

Surely you jest...

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Post by: Bird Brain on August 12, 2010, 07:10:21 PM

Quote from: "David Shilman"

Surely you jest...

I am serious ..... and don't call me Shirley!   :lol:

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Post by: Raven11:11 on October 21, 2010, 07:53:16 PM

My dad took me there once and it was for a toronto sun paper had a fishin contest and the guy who won caught the winner 10 feet from us.  On leeches. Like us.  In the brush, south west area near shore.