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?The Dally Times-Gazette Wednesday, October 31, 1956 7 History of Maher Shoe Is Recalled The history of the Maher Shoe Stores dates back to 1911 when Mr, James Patterson Maher, president and general manager, founded a small company for the purprse of manufacturing men's, boys). and children's shoes. |By main*ainins a steadfast policy of hones: workmanship and qual- |ity materials, his shoes acquired a {reputation for good value, and the {new company began to grow. | With his manufacturing division [succesfully launched, Mr. Maher turned his attention next to more efficient distribution. He reason- fed that if shoes coul' be sold Idirect from factory to - wearer, the saving could be passed along to consumer, and the logical ans- \we. was his own chain of retail | stores. {OPERATE 80 STORES | Putting the theory into practice, the young company began opening its own stores and throughout subsequent years a 'ontinuous policy of expansion and improve- ment has been maintained. At the present time Maher Shoe Stcres operate a total of 80 con- veniently located stores through- fout the Province of Ontario, Throughout the years the comp- any's branded lines of footwear for men, women, and children have become household words in thousands upon thousands of Can- adian homes, where value and 5 3 7 economy are appreciated. 4, ; ih | Founder, President, and Gen- * in ; : eral Manager of Maher Shoe HE | nett, Principal Investments Ltd. | as a huge construction projec |Stores, James Patterson Maher, ANOTHER VIEW or bie | expediter pa the centre, and | which is one of the most mod- |whose parents came from Ireland, front of the T. Eaton Co, 14d, Peer Howat. project engineer. | ern shopping centres on the |spent his boyhood days in the store in the new Oshawa Shop- Here they survey the final out- | North American continent to- |town of Picton, Ontario. In 1909 ping Centre is shown in picture | come of their work which they while still a young man he set out | day. : top left. At right are Al Bar- | first saw as a set of plans, then Photos by Michael Burns. |to seek a career for himself in Toronto, and two years later a | . founded the business which today | ' ' A C Explain Why bei mune Races Ghawallss pa 'Must' At Centre Eoan™ JP Ea se Why was the Oshawa Shopping| many other activities. He fs Centre built on the 53 acre site at/chairman of the Metropolitan Many Fine . EE ee ah On OSC Jobs Advantages I S Snow-F ree Shopping a eas 7 Exar GB Les An army of Pled from Dany mss x Investments Limited, developers|the greater Toronto area. gountries assem 318%2 ; ; rbor al- i i vhich will be painted in a year , Trouble-shooters of a different of the shopping centre. says that) In the business world he is a last Year 88d Began work ou a e . ; Dibiva bay 8 DOr lmagine frying io. keep 3 1 , 102 Jexve valy ot a re and' aot in trim the kind are the crew of heating en-|"this Torte was selected after member of the Shoe Manufaet- Big project. ; Really £ an modities-- houses clean and. jn R00d_fepair A call wet out to Principal In- parking lot lanes and car bays, gineers operating from Principal careful consideration of all suit-| urers' Association, Canadian Coun- They came quietly, worked ef- | : Seal ol ud othe! in tend|and you will have some idea of yogiments' snow clearing con-| The job will eat up 300 gallons of Investments' Toronto headquart- able property in and around Osh-|cil of Distribution, The Board ef ficiently and, with their task ac- i a trade that is ely 3 a oo the problems that face the man (ractor and a team of graders, special parking lot paint, and if ers. They keep watch on all the|awa, {Trade of the City of Toronto, and complished, left again. / {| vith the completion e St iwho will be "housewife" to the front-end loaders and trucks went'oné man and a spray-gun paint- shopping centres' heating syst- "Studies indicated that it was|a Director of the Property Own: For them no plaques of honor, | Lawrence Seaway. Shopping Centre. into action, Within an hour the jing machine were kept at it full'ems, and go out ad prevent trou- not practical to provide extensive| ers' - Association, the Canadian no elog: public no . 2 These facilities, plus the fact 53 acre Oshawa Shopping Centre. three-inch fall of snow had been time it would take them between ble before it happens. They will expansion of retail facilities in National Exhibition, and the Boy headline-making names. } that 11.5 percent of Canada's peo- Take snow clearance, for in- cleared -- at a cost of $1,000. [three and four weeks to complete advise the four-man - Oshawa gowntown Oshawa," the nreport|Scouts Association. But. they lofi a monument io hs pic live within 60 miles of the stance. "Snow-free Shopping" is a must the work. [team working out of sight main-|a4ds "and it was .decided that| He has always been interested their work -- Siliawa's i ; © |clty make Oshawa an ideal loca-| Just before Christmas last at all Principal Investments' cen-| Keeping the centre clean will taining the three 600 hp. oil-fired this property to the west was su-|in good wholesome sport, and is Shopping vevire, oy Jered bo 3 tion, centred in Canada's largest year, the skies over Toronto grew tres. With an average local snow- be a giant-sized task. The all-' boilers in a basement off the perior for several reasons: |the sponsor of teams participating build it. ill be ; st ial ket grey and heavy with approaching fall of 55 inches a year to cope glass shop fronts along the mall truck concourse. This under- | --"there is a large concentra-|in competitive hockey, baseball, This army eof workers wil : { |industrial mar ey snow. At Principal Investments' with, shopping centre men are will be fine for the shopper -- but ground vault with its boilers look- tion of population already living in/and soccer, He is a member of far from the public Se ai the Z : Oshawa's administration is pro- headquarters on Richmond going to be kept busy. [think of the men who have to|ing like giant wine casks, gives the western part of Oshawa, and the Granite Club of Toronto and a gala opening, yet withou tae | % |gressing, befitting its fine civie street, in Toronto, constant touch| There will be other hard chores keep the 50,000 square feet of the impression of a wine cellar it is growing rapidly; |life member of the Empire Club pe Shopping eentte would ot | f § |Dulldings, built recently In €on- ya being kept with the weather for them. too. Like painting a|glass in the centre mirror-bright. except that candlelight and the, --*location of the new General|of Canada, the Prince Edward bl ris and tha 2 Wan the | temporary style. |bureau. Then the alarm came white line -- a line styetching for That's like cleaning the windows|aroma is missing. Motors plant, almost' diestiy| Yacht Club, and a life member of bank. i §| lis police force, headed by a through from Scarborough's Gol-|100 SnlleS: 95y from JOshava the oh 2 BE aouges, nd BOILERS TO BALLET {south of the property, will tend to the Toronto Hunters' and Anglers' y 5 | Chief Constable, has fifty officers. den Mile Plaza. Snow was falling| Brockville. This repfesents e there's the eighty stimulate residential development|Club. : k-'900,000 lineal feet white strip -- each with four lamps -- in the] From boilers to ballet -- 5 ye dh | " Crime report statistics of 1955 heavily and blanketing the park-'s oso Bs [Bnei lots to be washed and in-| "maintenance" at a shopping|in that section of the city; [As 2 Dissector, of me, National -- showed that Oshawa had no case = spected. Thirty-foot high mobile centre covers a wide variety of --'the nearest towns, Whitby| Sanitarium, L BE Zrder, oue of Jupbery, hy ? ; scaffolding will be used for this activity. Preparing for square and Ajax, which have populations the Muskoka Hospital 3 Subes. su, -- Yop iuseDrealing, an ; i i [Job but it will be quite a tricky dancing, safety road-e-os, drive-in dependent on Oshawa retail facil-| culosis, c e 1 ton yan farm translated the blueprints mto a A ases of theft. Of 53 cars stolen,| ; {business in the winter when the church services, - carnival shows ities are located to the west; [an eS age Ins pri Re glittering shopping centre. {the police recovered 47; of $31,000 [wind and snow whips around the for local charities -- the physi-| --'the property selected was hemp Jed t'in Bis Tollon aur More than 600 tradesmen and |of property stolen, $19,000 was Gi scaffolding. fcal problems of these and other the largest integrated tract that ii | Jn eres foc of bo Gans laborers have worked on the recovered; and police traced 13 5 | A mechanical sweeper will take Promotional events come under could be located in Oshawa, zens by Svine. ree'ly o is hk shopping centre, At least 80 per Ml of 17 people reported missing. ' : iy the elbow grease out of clean-/the term of maintenance for the, "Without question," says the|and talents to this important work. cent of the work force came from | The fire department has three ' " ing the parking lots and shopping (shopping centre manager. And booklet, 'the Oshawa Shopping It is a matter of prige to Mn Oshawa and district. Every work- well-equipped stations and 70 fire. A ; [lanes, and garbage disposal will the aim of it all? To make shop- Centre is located to become the Maher and every member o er was a union man. men, headed by a Fire Chief. In . > be no problem either. Each store ping "a pleasant and easy exper- future focal point of the entire Maher organization that the ideal Many countries were represent- # 11955 it answered 431 fire calls-- , 3 will place its garbage on the lence for the customer 'Oshawa community." on which his business was found- ed on the vast construction job. 30 of them false alarms. Calls 1 bays running along each side of |-------------- -- ------------ led so many years ago is still in TEMPO INCREASES Re from houses and apartments were 1 > " the under-ground truck concourse | effect today: Bill Clark, assistant superin- 2 ; Re 2p ' ' below the Mall. There unseen -- a | "Quality that people deserve at tendent on the job for Principal, | / id | | 155; from factories, stores and of- ; 'i . and unsmelt -- by the shoppers ow entre 1 ean prices they want to pay" "Goods Investments Ltd., was one of the ; % fices 31; and 11 from barns and it will be carted away to one of | satisfactory or money refunded". first to arrive on the site with ; sheds. Loss of property and con- Ee. go the tunnel's vaults to be burned A strict adherence to this fair- the surveyors. Gradually the h fents in the 431 fires was $75,120, cat vi in a huge incinerator, play policy, coupled with court- tempo of work increased, the de- ¢ jor only $176 per fire. : \ A | From garbage to flowers. Keep- 0 ars or reasur |eous, intelligent and personalized mand for various tradesmen ex- © | For the city's 11,000 school chil- ; 1 ing the centre green and beautiful service has made for Maher Shoe ; 1 Stores hundreds of thousands ef panded and soon the 53-acre site dren, Oshawa has 18 ublic wil -be ihe } oo » i J was swarming with carpenters, 7 schools, four Roman Catholic sep- y yi hn Bog ed 2 Janiseaping The jarrival of the shopping/land tax from the centre, but staunch friends in every part of bricklayers, plasterers, Steel work. arate schools, two collegiates ' 7 staff at the centre. There will be CCPtre In Oshawa Jeans not only taxes will be much higher once Ontario. ers, plumbers, tiessiters; elec- and a Seventh-Day Adventis Col. Ev a score and more flowerbeds 2 dey Et lorbing ges for house- the centre is completed and oper- tricians and - host of others. y ; gud ' along the Mall and Plaza to be Nias Dir ollars for the city's ating as a business . ; USE ATOM-WASTE E . then Seotl: i A : ; Oshawa's citizens can pray at kept in trim, hundreds of shrubs 3sSury. Just how much higher is not LONDON (Reuters) -- Radio- "ngland, Scotland, America, pray 1 and trees to be pruned, and With the sale of the land to yet known. City Assessment Com- virial ER . Germany, Austria _and other more than 40 churches providing 4 1 og AL lawns to be cut and watered. |the shopping centre the assessed missioner Eldon Kerr says, "Valu-| active waste recovered from lands, joined with Canadians to for almost all of the leading de- 1 J |, Any vandals in this garden will Value of the site rose twenty ing a shopping centre is something atomic piles is about to go into build the centre. nominations. A 1961 census of 3 1 Ea be dealt with by the centre's own times. As farmland the old assess. new to us. After the Oshawa Shop- large-scale use in British hospitals Typical is Joe Bombino, fore- Oshawa's religious denominations : ; ! EAA security men, They, in co-opera- Ment on the 53 acre site was $5.- ping Centre is open we will prob- for the treatment of deep-seated man of the laborers. Joe is a PAT McMANUS | showed that 17,235 were of the . 1 4 MH @ tion with the Oshawa police, will|000. As vacant land held for the ably send an assessor to Toronts cancer, the British Atomic Energy heavily built fellow who migrated United Church; 8,410 Church of 3 oo Ml also handle the traffic, which at development of a shopping centre, and other Ontario cities to see Authority said today. to Canada from Italy more than working 'full time at the shopping England; 6,710 Roman Catholic: ; : TP peak periods may run into 3,000 the present assessment is $100,- how they have dealt with their one YRAIS 2EO. the spokesmen, Shire, rw, : 2,820 Presbyterian; 1,551 Baptist: 7 te at : § cars an hour. But traffic signs 000 ] centres ! sessment figure has been increas- g interpreters for the re ior Ww Scotty" Watson is another 1's19 Greek Orthodox; 882 Ukrain. 7 . J . FL and the well-planned service) The previous tax return was| This year land, buildings, and ing steadily from year to year. an jaierpre ers 2 : ig oo identity among the workmen. He ian Catholic; 341 Lutheran: 298 Y roads that lead on to self-contain- ($3.05 an acre and is now $152.50 businesses in Oshawa have been The new shopping centre will help ian work . orcs and Byes wi 1 is the drainage expert of the Yowish. o Men ites d "2.083 ied parking lots, should prevent an acre. For the 1956 period the assessed at $78,761,130, the high-|to keep it rising, and it is all to his Snfe ang amily on Simcoe Shopping ¢ . n 2 3 Construction rk hy y ? he Rohan 20d , too much physical traffic control. |city will gain more than $6,000 infest in the city's history. The as-'the city's gain. . , crew, and his richly aeccente: 5, --_- -- e-------- -- - - ern Ea a. - ne -- "This job is a good one," highland voice can be heard com- CITY'S HEALTH lai Joe during the peak con- ing from the oddest places Looking after the city's health ction period around the project are 70 registered doctors, numer- ve i Hike 30 York Bere yery There doesn't appear to have|ous clinics and a fine general much, e Sald In a heavLy ac-'heen any age limit among the! hne 'hic. ' cented southern Italian voice workmen hy mong Ken Socpital Wich whey oe ney "The conditions are good, the Horner, of Montrave avenue Cg ing is. completed W pay is good, and many: Italians Oshawa was & \mber of the ) beds will now be able to bring their prysh i squad which. zave 1955, 8,768 patients were ad- families over to Canada the ) centre its bright Mifted to the hospital and there > ? Amando Russo. 32. is one of the goo; h and the parking "ere 9.924 out-patients Ma jor ' workers using his wages to help lot its white lines cperations numbered 1,952 and iil Sein ge bring his family over from Eu- Then there is Fred Udel, 70- m.nor operations 3.741 Nearly PAINTING UP FOR OPENING rope. : year-old job superintendent for 24,000 X-ray films were taken and PAY IS GOOD Principal Investments, one of the 1 327 blood transfusions given He migrated to Oshawa from man. old-timers helping a an, 10+ 4 elping. build ifighest causes of death in 1955 y i ) 3 § i a a p Italy five years ago and is look- thie ultra-modern retail centre. ghe eath Oshawa Shopping Centre doffs | A special program has been ar- ing forward to a reunion with his These men, and hundreds like "ET diseases of the heart, 115, a painter's hat and tries. out a | ranged for the opening when wife and son in about two months them. built the shopping centre and cancer, 68 brush just before the opening | thousands are expected to view time. an achievement which reflects The city has many other serv- as the spacious centre was be- the centre, which is one of the Amando has earned high wages credit on their ability as trades- ices ranging from electricity and ing readied for the big day to- | most beautiful on the North under the union contract signed men water works, ambulances, ceme-| morrow when official ceremon- American continent, with Principal, Investments Ltd. ---- fteries, children's aid, immigra- ERE = = A pretty visitor to the new | ies will mark its grand opening. Superintendent Pat McManus, tion advice, welfare, to a dog con- |eream, candy, and a few sand- u, resident of We bricklayere More Sales trol department Success Story wiches. Mr. Manos' determina-| | ; , t aid contract when he sees one and Finally there is the play that ion pai¢ off. has high se for the condition mikes work worthwhile. | In 1953 his two sons, Frank and at se Paoli Hous The Oshawa municipal manual O- eep | Peter, opened another restaurant - : Leader of the 47 bricklayers 6p P ] lists eight pages of lodge and jon Kingston Rd., also in east-end who have worked en the build- n 0 1 service clubs, cultural and recrea-| The Bo-Peep restaurant in the| Toronto, | Ings, Pat praises the manner in . . : tional organizations, In Oshawa Oshawa shopping centre is the, The newest Bo-Peep restaurant which men of all trades an na- Many lines of retail business n one can sing in a barber shop latest chapter in a family success Will be managed by Frank and tionalities have worked together Osha are presently under MET" quartet, be a ham radio fan, a story Anarew Chrisomalis, both experi- in harmony : merc andised, according to Bbser hifi fan, shoot arrows play cham- ° : 3 enced men in restaurant manage- ) big Yor kshireman who i vations hy field men in specia ber music, study nature, do bal-| Frank Manos, manager of the ment and catering iayed for England against studies i i Is, restaurarr that specializes in good Australia in the Rughy League gg a booklet issued by et. perform Judo, paint in oils, I p Test, Pat claims the shopping Princi nvestment Limited centre to he one of the finest the de pers of the new Oshawa . Jobs he has ever worked on Shopp Centre. It adds: "This One of the finest libraries in Can than morey to establish a restau They now are ready to serve WONDERFUL PLACE fact is generally recognized by aos, -- rant business the hundreds of shoppers who will "It is a wonderful place," he many businessmen, both in and - visit th. hopping centre -- and id : : . ; His father, William Mane } .-SN0ppIng said. "It has given a lot of work outside Oshawa Present sales capacity of existing . who will need time out for a to our men and will bring a lot of Taking food as an example, theydrug stores is $500,000. The pur. founded Ye Bo-Peep Tea Room in snack or meal trade into th city report says that the present saleschasing power for drugs in this 1919 on Danforth Ave., in east - ---------- Some of out-of-town work- capacity of food stores existing | area is $1,700,000 snd Tor Or G ; eA TS war rat IT . ers are Joe Farr, 29, and Bill rapa i two-mile radius of the| In the trade area of a ten mile gud Toro, Som In Greece, he ol p WORKS oy ERTIVE | Villoughby, 4, both from Toron- shopping centre is $10.800,000 a radius of the shopping centre g.i. in 1914 and worked at the WASHINGTON (AP )--Voice of o ye Jut the "purchasing power there is room for another $4,100,- Statler hotel al Ame rica radio - a Yepided O¢ is a Canadian and Bill e in exce of normal sales |000 worth of sales a year in furni-|* londay to go on "indefinitely rE REE ng f normal sz al ar in ; . - A EER hails from Glasgow, Scotland acity"" for food is $4,400,000. (ture; $4,600,000 more in apparel: | WORKS HARD with an emergency round-th SERENE A A : Joe was foreman of 27 latherers That is to say that people in that $2,100,000 more in hardware:| He wasn't content to work for CCK program of news reports) : employed at the peak construc two-mile area could spend $15.- $1 800.000 more in variety store . Ar " beamed at restive Iron Curtain) t . \ I ares someone else all his life, so he rts United Qta ony n period 200 000 in food f there were | item ie} T , : countrie The nited States gov-l HAS AN ACCENT ¢ ores there to meet the The figures in this report clear Sed QI3-OWNH Using op ern b t Latherers pre » wa { and lv indicate the need for new retail ; . ried the eppe Ip newscast i ings for p " and Billl There . om for another stores in the area hence the but Aub tp hi! "his busine aan ed e experimer dur- | 4 Oughby's men do the latter. $1.200.000 of es in drugs in this coming of the new Oshawa §hop- Pu! he ncld on ng the weekend, and decided to THRE STRELTS \ , » T THE NPW © 0) TN COENTRR ARa Masa 3X nlsstarane ware twa tha wannst sevs ining Centra | His main "lines" hen were iceicontinue the schedule. \ THE STREETS ARE W IDE AT THE NEW SHOPPING CENTRE mila anaa Tney have a motto fashion pottery, act, play all the dinners and catering to small par "He profits most who serves usual sports and read books from ties, realizes that it takes more $0 vadeastir agency that followed the } i ni.