{"id":34198,"date":"2020-07-13T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=34198"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:14:10","slug":"wawa-looking-back-in-time-to-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/13\/wawa-looking-back-in-time-to-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa &#8211; Looking Back in Time to 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-34199 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-600x448.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-600x448.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-768x574.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt-500x373.png 500w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/MackeySt.png 964w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wawa-news received the following video last week. It portrays a fire between the now closed Wawa Handy Store and the apartment building on the corner. That vacant lot is now the home for Dr. Bowyer&#8217;s traveling clinic.<\/p>\n<p>This film was recorded by the late Aatto Kulha in the 1960&#8217;s. His great-nephew David contacted me and said, &#8220;This was apparently quite a sizeable fire. It is interesting to see the firefighters battling the fire with little or no protective equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>David has more reels of 8mm film and is in the process of digitizing and will upload to YouTube for current and former residents of Wawa, Ontario to see. Wawa-news will feature them, and encourages readers to share their comments below, and to consider sharing their photographic treasures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_39489\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UygTPuAw9-I?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Wawa-news received the following video last week. It portrays a fire between the now closed Wawa Handy Store and the apartment building on the corner. That vacant lot is now the home for Dr. Bowyer&#8217;s traveling clinic. This film was recorded by the late Aatto Kulha in the 1960&#8217;s. His great-nephew David contacted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2606],"tags":[2586],"class_list":["post-34198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time","tag-wawa-history"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 00:59:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34209,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198\/revisions\/34209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}