WVIJiTBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1l, 1985, PAGE 21 While saluting its railwqy heritage... Art gallery celebrating l5th anniversary By SUSAN LESJAK Free Press Staff Tbe Station Gallery in Wb.tby is celebrating its past this montb. Not only its 15-year history as an art galery, but is 66-year blstory before that as a train station. Tbe former Grand Trunk Railway station turned gallery was the scene of mucb hoopla Saturday, as curator Linda Paulocik and ber staff of volunteers marked the event witb birtbday cake, balloons and of course, art. To conjure up the feeling of bustling people-place the station once was, Paulocik arranged a show of near-life-size paper mache figures by Ux- bridge artist Jane Buckles. Placed helter-skelter in wbat used to be the stations waiting room, tbe paper-mache people vividly recaîl earlier time. Bridge The following are the results of last week's play at the Witby Curling Duplicate Bridge Club as reported by Mrs. Jim Wbarrie. North and South: Mr. and Mrs. Elwyn Smyth, 49'ý; Mrs. Jim Frost and Mrs. P.N. Spratt, 45 12ý: Frank MacNeill and Bill Nelson, 43; and, AI Leslie and Perry Laurence, 36'2ý. East and West: June Thompson and Bill Fraser, 45'2à Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson, 45; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Wharrie, 40î,; and, Zet- ta Cunnington and Ede Wilson, 38. A gangly ciid cdut- cbes tbe skirt of a buxom mpatron, wbo in turn clutcbes an over- sized carpet bag. Botb stare intently in tbe presumed direction of a train. A Rosedale lady, pur- sed lips and cream gloves, sits primly waiting, eyes fixed on a small patcb of floor in GOLDEN GATE, 107 Brock Street South, Whltby 668-2222 This popular, 30.year oid Chinese restaurant has recenliy in- troduced Szechuan Cuisine for those who like hot, spicy dishes. n addition la ils Chinese lare the Golden Gale aiso of- front of her chair. A bored teenager, leans languidly on a tennis racket, un- ceremoniously tbrust between ber outspread legs. She, too, appears to be waiting for a train. Tbese are just a few of the dozen or more figures that fi the gallery's front room. Some made expressly fers a wide seiection of Canadian dishes. The Bo-Bo pialler and Iheir chicken flingera are lwo specialiiies 1worlh lrying. Perfect for lun- ch or dinner. Open f rom il la 2 arn. daiiy. Friday and Salurday unlil 3 a.ý-n. Fuiiy licenses. Dine-mn and fast home deiivery. THE GREAT SPAGHETTINI SPECTACULAR sIartIng 5.pt.mb.» I1 10V85 AIL YOU CAN EAT SPAGHETTI PLATTER AL FOR s3.99 BRING A FRIEND, WIFE OR MATE AND WE'LL GIVE THEM THE SAME DEAL FOR ONLY AND WE'LL THROW IN A FRESH BASKET 0F OARLIC BREAD, TO B00VJ P .S. And when youre completely satisfied, sit back and anjoy the sounds of our ever popuiar EV ERY W ED NESDA Y N 1G HT0ON LY AT C EODRIC KS 3RING T HE KIDS AND PAY ONLY 11.99 A PLATE AND CHECK DUT DUR SPECIAL KIODIES M ENU STARTING MDNDAY 35 FREE HOR D'OEUVRES WITH YDUR FIRST DRINK "WHAT A DEAL" 7î ~~WAT A ME111ALI nd nir8 u.rçyebônqa.hall 668-8822 13 BM Si N hWH TSI ONT for this show, others on boan from. prîvate collections. "Jane's characters are so appropriate for our annversary show," said tbe gallery's curator. "Tbey're at on- ce typical of people wbo frequented the train station, and people wbo visit tbe gallery now. We get visitors wbo are jogging by tbe gallery and stop in, saiors from the barbor and kids witb skates over their shoulders. The gailery is sti very much* a community place." Furtber to the gallery's celebration of tbe station's past, sum- mer student Karin Cruxton bas brought togetber a collection of l9tb and 2tb century railroad memorabilia, on display - ap- proximately - in wbat was formerly tbe station's baggage room. By contacting coun- tless railroad buffs, Cruxton has managed to piece togetber a pictoral bistory of an era characterized by the billowing smoke of steam locomotives and the luxury for those who could afford it - of Pullman'cars and silver tea services in dining cars. Included in the exhibition are model trains, switching Ian- terns and conductor's caps wbich span a cen- tury. A set of historical railway prints on boan fromn the Royal Ontaio Museumn and a set of Vogue Fashion covers (1910-1925) on loan fromn the Art Gallery of On- tario complement Crux- ton's memorabilia. From montbs spent hunting down pieces for the show, the would-be curator has developed quite a repetoire of railroad tales. The engineer cap as we know it today, originated around 1905, she toid the Witby Free Press during a private guided tour. Story bas it that the wife of an engineer made one of her spouse alter he complained that the bandanas, engineers used til then, didn't provide enougb protec- tion for bis ears. An old water bottle (of dubious aesthetic menit) was included, she explained, because of the elephant image imprlnted in the glass. Jumbo, a Barnum Cir- cus elepliant gainea notoriety in 1885, when he escaped f rom the cir- eus and ran straigbt into a Grand trunk engine in St. Thomas, Ontario. The elephant which met bis deatb in the train ac- cident, was subsequen- tiy stuffed and mounted for cisplay. The railway and sculpture exlibits will botb run until Sept. 29. We are iooklng for respon- sibie, reliabie and depen- dabie people la deiiver our paper each week. 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