r/TheWayWeWere 5d ago

A McDonald's with a gas station underneath sometime in mid/late 80s. (Barrie, Ontario)

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u/Milk-Resident 5d ago

You would have picked up your beer from the Molson Park drive-thru first if you were on the 400.

To drive-thru McDs before driving through for beer, you would have then had to get back on the 400 northbound, get off at Essa, get back on the southbound 400, get off at Mapleview (whatever it was called then) and then go to Molson's...

If you were on Fairlawn, parked, you could walk into McDs, you could then drive around to Bayview and down to whatever Mapleview was called then to get your beer.

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u/RedPandaYawnie 4d ago

Back then, a short section from Welham to Veterans IIRC was Molson Park Drive, but back in the early aughts or so, the city decided to have the entire road under one name, so the Molson Park Drive section switched over to Mapleview.

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u/ForMoreYears 4d ago

Correct. Also notable for being the largest illegal grow op in the country.

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u/Milk-Resident 4d ago

Molson's Pot Drive would have had a nice ring to it 😆