Post #49

How about this!  Witness Boss Janice at Green Gables on High Street.  I wish the picture was clearer.

You can see the Krispy Kernels snacks on the pegboard by the window, with what might be newspapers, I believe.  It's obviously night time here, most likely evening.  Janice did work many night shifts, which is crazy to think about today.  I was the main midnight shift guy, at least at first, and that was quite a rough neighbourhood.  I dealt with two robberies in my GG days, the second one was at this store.  

This particular building may have been a Fina gas station in its infancy, but now was a Wilson's gas bar with the store.  Janice ran it quite well, but the longer we were there, the more joy was lost.  I think we left at a pretty good time, though at that moment, times were about to get pretty hard.

But these are the first days of Janice and me being together.  We'd met in '85 at the other Green Gables store, now a Papa John's pizza place.  Things evolved to us becoming more than friends when I wound up single, then in '92 we got rolling.

Green Gables stores had just been acquired by TRA Foods, which is the same group that owns Sobeys.  It was the end of an era for the stores run by 'the little guys', as TRA steadily stripped away any power the store managers had down to just being puppets.  Green Gables was rebranded Needs, and GG no longer exists today.  A shame, because it was a Maritime institution, a part of local identity.


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