Green Gables

[smr714]

Dad was asking me if I knew if the old green gables building was anything but the second hand shop in the past... Can you advise?

 

[scotto]

Dad was asking me if I knew if the old green gables building was anything but the second hand shop in the past... Can you advise?

I remember as a kid, going there and getting ice cream cones. So a long, long time ago it was a resturant.
About forty years ago, a family named Knupstrup (sp?) bought it and turned it into a antique shop. The Schnieders were the second owners of that type of store.

 

[Crawfish]

It used to be a chinese restaurant. I never ate there but used to spend a lot of my paper route money playing the pinball there.

 

[scotto]

It used to be a chinese restaurant. I never ate there but used to spend a lot of my paper route money playing the pinball there.

Did it start as a Chinese Place, Green Gables doesn't have that Chinese ring to it.

 

[Crawfish]

I don't know what it was when it started, or even when it started and maybe, just maybe, my memory of it being a Chinese resto is faulty. After all, it would't be the first time my memory has erred. I agree that Green Gables doesn't sound Chinese but if the place was named by an earlier operator that could explain it.

 

[laxsupr]

I just talked to my mother and she just confirmed that the Green Gables was a Chinese food restaurant. Roy Dean

 

[scotto]

I never doubted Crawfish here , again just wondering if that was the original business??
Did your mother say anything about that??
Thanks!

 

[scotto]

BTW, that would make three Chinese restaurants that were down here, that I know of. Were there more??

 

[Collings]

The Knudstrups were danish ( I think..) with two beautiful daughters..lol

 

[scotto]

The Knudstrups were danish ( I think..) with two beautiful daughters..lol

They had a son as well, I don't recall his name though. I don't know if they were Danish, but yes they were from that part of world.

 

[Sharla1]

Here is a pic of the building. Is it ever in rough shape in this pic.

http://historicalhamilton.com/the-east-end/green-gables/

 

[Sharla1]

Is the building still there?

 

[scotto]

Is the building still there?

No, the property is now high end condos, one phase is done and being sold, the second to start in the near future.
Just to add, this isn't the original Green Gables that was further south down the Beach on the harbour side owned by Hamilton business man W.E. Sanford.


A picture from when it was open;

 

[scotto]

Check out this menu from Green Gables Restaurant, notice the page with the Chinese food items. Maybe it was both, a regular restaurant with cold and hot sandwiches and Chinese.
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/gallery3/Green-Gables-Restaurant/GreenGables1

And more here,
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/threads/green-gables-in-the-spec.284/