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COCO Orr ys seve PF Pr Se oP 9 S pee ' @ $ ~ 'evry 4 . pg ere OG eee HN tte ek Ae dd aa outdoor rinks overcrowded ant, Ci r] A . Serowi aan aeas | City's Automotive Museum 'The auditorium will provide ts The cost--$1,200,000.. The owners -- Oshawa citizens. The finished product -- a Civic Auditorium, which each of the owners can take pride in knowing they helped build it. Almost all the rec- reational needs of the com- munity have been provided - for in the Thornton road building. The arena, with or without ice, can-and will supply sports including hockey, wrestling, lacrosse, skating, circuses, dances, bazaars, auto shows and ex- hibitions. Simultaneous. with activity. on the 200-feet by 85-feet ice or cement sur- face, other activities can go on in the committee and meeting rooms, The largest room can accommodate 300 at a meeting and 150 at a CIVIC AUDITORIUM REPRESENTS COMMUNITY'S PROGRESS them with hockey, skating and lacrosse: facilities. For them, to the south, and ringing the oval rink will | for ban- uets, wins s, and sundry biter activities. The ice surface can be re- moved to allow an additional 200-by-85-foot rectangle for meetings, as was evidenced by' the United Auto Workers rati- fying their contract there. | William Kurelo, who started out as a director, and finished as the manager of the Auditor- ium, has said: "We have a pub- lie facility here with a $100,000 budget . . .we must make available all the facilities we have, to whoever wants them." During 1964, the Canadian There were also conducted-for 44 groups of school children, Brownies, Cubs, Church groups and other similar organizations. Part of the program was the er, of ogee ed ex! on display when the), museum first opened. There were a total of 16 ex- hibits changed. The rubber display was ex- panded to include an illustration of the process involved in the ey sani of chemical rub- ") The reference library con- ONLY PORT Oshawa has the only Seaway depth port between Montreal tween 79 and 80 vessels used the facilities here. and Toronto, and in 1964 be- taining historical information on some of the earlier cars has also been expanded through do- nations of reference manuals and other pertinent information by inierested individuals. acquiring of new exhibits to add to those already established and Draws 32,333 In Year to create enough new displays Financia) support: was receiv- ed by the museum from local busyness, industry, all of Can- ada'$ automobile manufactur- ers, as wel] as other compan- jes associated with the automo- tive industry. The Cauvadian Automotive Mu- i $ and ars, r cit-|Automotive Museum was a ' as *s , egg re a pre i ag that a visit will be interest-|cation was made a the |motive shows, bazaars and eX-| 1» the 12 months 32,333 jing not only for the person ! chari- "}hibitions, ed the museum, They came|Viiting the museum -for theltion was granted De- MEETING ROOMS from all 10 provinces, the Unit-|first time, but for those wholpartment ot Ni ; Mee! Sha the: wanes " Pa and European coun-jhave previously toured the mu- Donat Add To Your HOME JAMES O'MALLEY CONSTRUCTION LTD. PHONE 723-7122 The museum is. endeavoring 254 CEDAR VALLEY DR. ; banquet. Projected plans for the 20-acre auditorium site include a swimming pool, an outdoor track, a stadium, a football field and an arts theatre. --Oshawa Times Photo Vast Sports Complex Seen For New Civic Auditorium Thousat trict ci 13, and smiled smiles at the building they built, by themselves, for themselves. Oshawa's Civic Auditorium, started as winter ended, and finished as it began once again, stands asa monument on Thornton's road to the small group who worked and fought for it, and the large group that paid the: bills. The $1:2 million-dollar build- ing, housing @ 3400-seat hockey- of Oshawa and dis-|lacrosse-all purpose arena, and is entered their tem- ple of sports Dec. 11, 12 and self-satisfied a series of meeting rooms, is also a-monument to: the monu- mental growth 'in Oshawa dur- ing 1964. It is the first step, Auditor ium Corporation officials are hoping and saying, of a vast sports and recreation complex in the city's west end. Brainchilds hatched in 1958 were turned over to the men of action in 1963. E. R. S. Me- Laughlin and Terence V. Kelly turned to the people and said: "Tet's Build it Ourselves .. - for Ourselves"; The people re- sponded, and money began to Toll 'in. Small children raided their piggy banks to donate a quar- ter and General Motors of Canada raided their bank to donate a quarter-of-a-million. ALL THE PEOPLE Bright sun bathed the still- frozen ground Feb. 29, 1964 when General Motors clerk Jo- seph Olesky, picked by lot to represent all of the people, turned the first sod, Only six- weeks earlier the city, council had. backed up an $850,000 loan to allow the Auditorium Corporation to get under way As spring turned into sum- mer, Wilkinson Construction, the contractor on the site, pour- ed the concrete, erected the' insulated aluminum walls, and laid the 3360 square feet. of plank ceiling. Autumn came, and the dead- line loomed, The work force rose to 150 men at times. Seven miles of regfrigeration pipes were laid in the arena floor, and covered: with a con- crete mixture that took three weeks to dry. BUILDING UP The building went up, and the money rolled in. After less than one year .of actual construction more than 50 per cent of all | ee the pl were much of it by Robert Wilson, a corporation director who made daily house - to house jaunts. One of the consequences of the auditorium's completion was the' return of the Generals, the Junior A Hockey Club orphaned by a fateful fire in 1953 and disvanded~ until 'a new ice- palace was all but guaranteed. They came back three sea- sons ago, but were forced to stay in Bowmanville until the auditorium was completed. On Dec. 15 they returned as a strong contender for the OHA championship, and one more reason for the city's promin- ence, But, like Trix, the Auditorium is for kids. The rapid popula- tion increase in Oshawa made the Children's Arena and the eeaneeaiieiaiil wreteny coh Modern Garden Centre -- Now Open To Serye You OFFERING YOU MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN... GARDENING AND LANDSCAPING Mr. J. A. 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