Ice Cream Parlours

Ice cream parlours were very popular in the 1920s. The community had its first lunch and ice cream parlor about 1926 in a small building on Elmer Gamble’s lot on the comer next to Heath Chisholm’s house. Louis Mabey, assisted by his sister, Aletha, was in charge of the parlor and they carried on business for several summers. They had tables and chairs. It was certainly a novelty to be able to buy factory-made dressed- up ice cream, what is now called a sundae! Frank Mayhew who operated a grocery and confectionery store in the former M.C. Delaney General Store, made and sold ice cream as a special feature for his customers. Heath and Ruby Chisholm had an ice cream parlor in part of their store. This part of the store was previously used as a barber shop, first by Austin Noonan and later by Ivan MacKeeman, and later was operated as a hot dog stand one summer by Elaine Chisholm and her cousin, Arthur Thomas.16

Simmons Restaurant

Jean Muirhead and her husband, Harold Simmons, operated a restaurant in Carleton Siding from 1964 to 1967 before moving to North Tryon and building a restaurant on the William Muirhead farm. They were only open for one year when Harold became ill, and they

had to lease the facility to Connie Clark Foy.Jean assumed proprietor- ship again in 1971 and retained it until Velda and Gary Paynter

purchased the restaurant in the fall of 1973. June and Fred Cormier took over the business in the fall of 1979. Wesley Paugh operated the restaurant for the summer seasons from 1985 until 1991. The restaurant did not open in 1992 and is for sale.

Bea MacFarlane and Ruby Noye assisted jean in cooking. Some of the waitresses were Flo MacDougald, Shirley Thomson, Daisy Dawson,

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Simmons Restaurant. Haul Robinson collection.

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