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Barb: In our teens we used to wander downtown and go into Hooper's. Hooper's was a marvelous store, a catering store. And they made all their own handmade candy, homemade candies and they had big glass cases full of it you know. And at Christmas they had all the, they had molds, the tin molds and they would make Christmas things out of pink or green or white ice cream and they'd have them in the shape of a bell or a Santa Claus or a wreath or Christmas tree. And that used to quite often be our Christmas dessert for Christmas dinner. They would come packed in, packed with dry ice. And then latterly, after that they always had you know the little red frozen strawberries which we all had at our weddings. So they…and they had a room there called the Palm Room and some of us would have, occasionally somebody would have a birthday party there so you'd go there for a birthday party. And they were the one's that catered at your wedding so you'd feel like you had a long stretch of knowing them. Carol: Hooper's played a big part in people growing up in Peterborough. Barb: It did, it really did. I mean they did things beautifully.

Barb Earle