Well, I like to collect old data, and this time I present the probably incomplete guide of where to eat and drink (restaurants, bars, delis, department stores and bakeries) in 1968, Halifax/Dartmouth.
There are quite a few that exist in the same spot today.
•Ardmore on Quinpool
•Armview on Quinpool
•The canteen inside the Bayers Rd Bowlarama
•Cozy Snack Bar on Liverpool
•Gus’ Pub
•The Dairy Queen’s on Main St in Dartmouth and Dutch Village in Fairview
•Look Ho Ho on Bayers
•KFC on Quinpool
•Willman’s on Isleville
•Woodside Tavern
A few more live on but in a different home
Bluenose II, Midtown Tavern, Mic Mac Tavern (right next door), The Seahorse and The Hub. The Garden View as well is currently closed for a rebuild.
map on Google Maps here
The tasty food restaurant on the corner of Morris and South st!
according to the ’68 CityDirectory Tasty Food was Morris at Birmingham
I am trying o find out about the Cake Box or cake box bakery , I think it was on blower st. I am looking for a recipe for their pound cake
Did you ever find anything out about The Cake Box? I always loved the large donuts they made. Wondering if anyone in hrm makes them anymore?
Sorry no
The Cake Box – they made the absolute best donuts!!!!!!
Yes,it was at the corner of Morris and Birmingham,i lived at 1335 Birmingham and went to the Tasty Food almost every day.
One place you missed was the Simpson’s cafeteria it was separate from the restaurant but serviced from the same kitchen.
I decided since they were the same kitchen to leave it
didn’t you have to walk through the Cafeteria to get to the restaurant?
The Cafeteria was access through the back right of the store think it was near seasonal. The restaurant was entered from around the corner pass the escalators near the sewing & notions. You passed by formal dining room windows facing on to the retail turn right to the entrance down the corridor was a cashier and coat check beyond the cashier was the large winding lunch counter. There was no public access between the two operations.
Wasn’t the restaurant called The Seashell?
My grandmother used to take me to the Simpsons Cafeteria and we got to sit on the stools at the counter and the coke came in well it was a silver cup that held like a conical paper or cardboard ?? Liner that held the coke and was full of tiny tiny ice cubes. I loved it. Though Im trying to imagine how it worked , but the paper cone would be similar to a dixie cup only bigger and conical. Always used a straw.
The Seashell I believe, it had white plaster seashells on the walls as I recall. johnw
Cool memories.
Cameills Fiah and Chips – it was on Barrington under the old Bridge.
The Stockade in Windsor St and Almon near the Forum.
One of my favourites- The Sulky Room at the old Sackville Downs Racetrack in Lr. Sackville.
Hogies on Quinpool Rd. was a regular place I loved.
Papa Gino’s – Italian Food was on the corner of Sackville St. Downtown, loved the food and the decor inside.
Brass Rail in the Halifax Shopping Centre
Steak N Burger – I think it was called in Halifax Shopping Centre and in Mic Mac Mall.
Ponderosa
The Derby Tavern
The Green Dorey in Halifax Shopping Centre
Not in 1968 though, and I didn’t have the raw info for Bedford/Sackville
the Green Dorey at the time was the Black knight
Pap Ginos was the Piccadilly Tavern
Hogies was Swiss Charcoal
Brass rail and Derby are listed
Ponderosa wasn’t here yet
The Stockade was Pharmacy ( i used to eat there before Vees games)
Green Dory was in the basement the Black Knight was upstairs in the mall next to the Brass Rail restaurant
No the Green Dory was in the basement of the Hfx.Shopping centre the Black Knight Lounge was next to the Brass Rail one floor up
The Garden View on Main St is being rebuilt????Better be soon. It is a definite eye sore.
http://tealarchitects.com/project/multi-family-modern-dartmouth/
How about Zellers lunch counter on Barrington street in Halifax?
it’s there
What about The Port Fish and Chips. 25 cents for chips. 35 for scallops or clams and chips . 5 cents for every additional piece of fish. The Port was on Portland Street across from Portland Street Esso
The City Directory says Portland Groceries/a Barber/Shoe repair were across the the street in 68
Chickenburger!!
I didn’t have to complete data for outside of the core
What was the name of the Italian restaurant on the 2nd floor at the end of South St. in the 1970s?
Gondola?
Cafe Cianti
Great read. Does anyone know where I can find maps of Bayer’s lake and Timberlea areas from 1980’s onwards? I would love to see how the areas have developed. Thanks!!
this should do the trick from an aerial point of view
https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/#v=44.6566,-63.6763,11.821,latLng&t=2.38
A few restaurants that were missed:
The Cameo & The Riviera – both between Birmingham & Queen on Spring Garden, north side.
Morris Lunch – Morris at Hollis, north side.
The New Town – next to Neptune (The Garrick) east side of Argyle at Sackville.
The Acadian Room – 2 doors south of China Café – Hollis between Morris and South, west side.
The Palm Lunch – a Chinese restaurant northeast corner of George & Argyle.
Hum Mow – just south of the Picadilly on Grafton, east side; great food given the date.
Had been trying to remember the names of The Welcome Café, Ming Toy and Denlock’s Acadian Grill on Granville across from Province House for years, the latter was the go-to place for milkshakes, sodas and tuna salad sandwiches. Thanks
john
Cameo is there, the Riviera in 1968 was listed as being on South Bland, Hum Mow is there already too
you are correct on Acadian Dining Room I missed that one thanks.
Morris at Hollis only commercial listed that I don’t have is Morris MArket, a barber and Schooner Outfitting
Gerorge at Argyle all I have is City Hall or Moirs
and Nothing for New Town
There was the Paradise 24hr , were the ladies of the evening took tea !
Anyone know what the restaurant next to the Casino theater called?
The Vougue
Hey John, The Palm Lunch, that I used to frequent was not on the corner of George and Argyle. George only goes as far as Barrington Street. Palm Lunch was on Argyle Street and Carmichael Street, I believe.
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Palm Lunch was at the corner of Prince & Grafton Street and was just across from The Midtown Tavern.
Morris Lunch was not quite on the nw corner of Morris and Hollis but on Morris 1-3 doors west. Sorry the Palm Lunch was at 5245 Prince Street, Halifax. New Town was an odd place with the door facing north west and one walked down a few steps given the slope of Sackville St.
Wonder if Wood Bros.’ Tea Room (4th floor) was still around in 1968?
I’m getting the hang of the map now.
Can I attach a menu somehow? It’s a jpeg.
john
The Flamingo Restaurant in the Bayer’s Road Shopping Centre.
Favourite restaurant growing up: Miss Dartmouth on Wyse Rd.
Was trying to explain to my friend where this was and discovered this comment.
Remember Murray’s Coffee Shop in the Lord Nelson? A great lunch spot when I was a kid. It would have been open in the later 60. And Spring Garden also had the Doric, one of many family run diners around town. I miss the Shopper’s Special at the Spartan on Quinpool, opposite the Oxford Theatre.
ZAPATA’s
Piccadilly
Hogies (I worked there)
Dining hall in the old Lord Nelson
Someone on FB’s Halifax Black & White mentioned a restaurant asy Hollis & Morris called Norman’s. I certainly recall that name only but not at that location. Anyone? john
I’m not sure when it was open but
https://halifax.retales.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/normans.jpg
Must have been on the southwest corner which was later a plumbing company and ow Tally Thai. The southeast corner was that huge wooden apt. building which was demolished a few years ago. NE corner was a corner grocery (name?) and the NW corner was Morris Lunch, a barber shop & I’m blank on the business right at that corner.
Can anyone tell me what restaurant was in the Dartmouth Shopping Centre back in, at least, the ’80s – down near Home Hardware and the Royal Bank, as opposed to the Zellers end. Thanks!
I believe it was the Stratus Restaurant
Thin king a bit more it was spelled Stratos
Fotis Restaurant on Robie Street
Holy s#!t, THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES! I just subscribed to RETALES. Look forward to more blasts from the past. i found THIS WEBSITE WHILE LOOKING FOR INFO ON the House of Hum Restaurant on Prince Albert Road in Dartmouth back during the late 70’s, early 80’s.
Maybe I didn’t look well enough but is The Gondola listed? It was an Italian Restaurant on South Street near the Nova Scotian hotel.
It wasn’t there until
The 70s
The French Casino (?), the Nova Scotian Hotel and Murray’s in the Lord Nelson were the only places you could get a drink on Sunday when I was there 1962-65. If the girls at Mount Sajnt Vincent missed mass Sunday morning, they could come into the city and catch the 5 p.m. mass at the cathedral. They’d gather at Murray’s with guys from SMU and you could get three beers for every food order which was usually the 65-cent grilled cheese . At the end of the afternoon, there would be a pilr of uneatedn grilled-cheese sandwiches
The most famous sea food restaurants of the 50 into the 60’s plus “The Seashell resaurant on Spring Garden road
And The French Casino on Gottingen street
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The Sea Shell and the French Casino where Halifax best known at the time to the middle & upper class
The Flamingo in the Bayers Road Shopping Center, which was eventually renovated and became Duggars restaurant, which also vanished. On every table at The Flamingo, there was a lava lamp. As a child I was captivated! LOL
I am trying to remember the name of the lounge on Robie St. At the Willow Tree where Anne Murry and Jon Allen Cameron would often perform.
Does anyone remember the name of the breakfast restaurant on the corner of Almon and Gottigen Sts across from the movie theatre in 50’s/60’s It was a Greek family that owned it?
The Acropolis? was across from Stadacona Main Gate. On that corner, never remember a movie theatre though, much further down Gottigen to the South, course it may have been before my time.
The Polynesian Village on Spring Garden Road…
I know I am late to the party but can anyone recall the name of a Greek restaurant, might have been on Morris street, close to Hotel Nova Scotia by the train station, close to Gondola on South.
Old Man Moira’s?
THAT’S IT!! Thank you! I swear it’s been years that my husband and I have been thinking of this (off and on :-). And tonight I found this blog … and poof! The answer appears. Thanks so much! We loved that place!
The Green Pepper maybe? Woolworth’s on Portland Street Dartmouth,Chateau Halifax? thE snack counter at the beach across from Senobe
Does anyone know the name of the diner on Portland street next to the pawn shop and barbershop?
There was The Wharf in Scotia Square and
The Flamingo and Starlight in Bayer’s Rd
Shopping Ctr. The cafeteria in Eaton’s Hfx
Shopping Ctr. I used to go have breakfast
with Santa there every year. Sooo many
memories. Wish we could turn back the
clock. There was a DQ in Hfx shopping Ctr also
I don’t see Robie food or Coombies lunch.
Yes the Brass Rail and the Green Dorey. What was the fancy Italian restaurant downtown? Caruso’s? Lot of bars we ate in through the 70’s . I think we used to got the Spaghetti factory every friday in University for 5$ lasagna and cheap sangria. Over top of Brandy’s where we went for shooters near the end of the night.
Dick Turpins in scotia square. Lawrence of Oregano’s and the Split Crow. I think there was a Mother Tuckers down by the Waterfront.
Hogies and Zapatas and China Town down towards bedford well its still there.
king of Donair
Few restaurants in the hotels that were the place to be. One on top of the old Hotel Nova Scotian ? with the great view of the harbour.
Anyone remember the name of the spaghetti house that was near the duck pond in Dartmouth where the park is now?
It set in the same lot as where the park is now. It was a yellow building, that I think was trimmed in a burgundy colour.
I used to go there all the time in the 60s and I’m trying to recall the name of the place. They served hot spicy spaghetti dishes.