Kastner's closing

Kastner's is closing. It has been in business for 100 years and had been at this location since 1953. My mom got me a credit account there when I was 13 or 14 but I think I only used it once.

 

Albertine Lapensée

Albertine Lapensée, 1917, Montreal Star

 

Albertine Lapensée of Cornwall, Ontario, was 'the Star of Stars' of the Eastern Ladies' Hockey League, which briefly flourished during the First World War. She disappeared after the end of the war put an end to professional women's sports leagues in North America. A subject of many rumours, in fact she went to New York, became a cab driver and began to live as a man and used the name Albert. He married and adopted a daughter, and returned to the Cornwall area, ran a restaurant named "Chicky's" in Bainsville close to the 401 and the Quebec border  and died in 1963. He used the last name Smith, (not Smythe, as it appears in some sources) at least according to his obituary and his tombstone, which is in the middle of the east border of Cimetiere St-Joseph Cemetery in Lancaster, Ontario. The most extensive and up-to-date article about Albert is by Guillaume Piedboeuf for Radio-Canada (in French), available online here: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/recit-numerique/12820/albertine-lapensee-hockey-feminin-mystere-disparition-intersexualite

 

 

Drove downtown in the rain

 We can never drive downtown in the rain to check out the late night record shops. They've all closed. The Sam the Record Man flagship store on Yonge Street that Steve Page drove to at night closed almost 10 years ago. There's only one independent franchise in Belleville out of the hundreds that used to be across Canada.

I bought the 'yellow label' tape with 'Brian Wilson' on it from Steve for 5 bucks in 1991.

Steve Page, 1991. I also bought the same shirt at a Rheostatics show.

The 'yellow label' cassette

Kissing Bridge redo

Filming location for: In the Mouth of Madness, (1994), To Die For (1995), It (2017).  Even though it's been in two horror and a crime film, it's also called "The Kissing Bridge" as dating couples were supposed to be able to kiss without being seen when crossing it in a carriage. Horse drawn carriages still use it as the bridge is in a Mennonite/Amish region.

 

Victoria Polaris

Viking Polaris going down St. Lawrence near Glen Walter, Ontario, October 15, 2026

 

flu shot

Flu shot, feel fine. Vaccine injection site felt a little itchy but no other effects as of eight hours after shot.

Dancer, Odawa Powwow, late 80s

 

Odawa Powwow, c. 1989, - when it was held on Corkstown Road in Nepean. More photos here:

https://markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/10/photos-of-odawa-powwow-early-90s-and.html