![]() You paid $1 to get in and you could get up and sing or play a musical instrument. When he was older, Smith said, he sometimes went to The Highlands to attend the Sunday amateur nights in the 1940s. "They had badminton courts then and he would bring the used birdies home. He phoned to say that his father, William, was a custodian at the The Highlands in that decade. Now 75, Hamilton today heads The Twilites, a Guelph-based dance band started by the late Bob Jeans in 1987.ĭon Smith of Guelph grew up in Preston (also now part of Cambridge) in the 1930s. "That's the one thing you had to watch out for when you were dancing there, that you didn't run into one of those posts," remembers John Hamilton, who phoned to say he was a member of The Highlanders, house band at The Highlands, which performed there regularly in the 1950s and 1960s under band leader Bill Howcroft of Guelph. When the badminton courts were also put to use as a dance floor in the 1930s, the posts that held the nets were still there in the floor. Readers provided information that helps to provide a partial history of the building, which began as the home of the Highlands Badminton Club, probably in the late 1920s. Much changed in recent years, the old Highlands building, a two-level site on a slope leading down to the Grand River, is now part of an office development at 614 Coronation Blvd., just south of Cambridge Memorial Hospital. Last week's "mystery" photo is a rare 1941 picture of the popular nightspot that turned up in a search of the Online Cambridge Archives, a research portal administered by the City of Cambridge. Mark a special date with a loved one.Īt some point in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s area residents were likely to do any or all of the above at The Highlands dance hall in the north end of Galt, now part of Cambridge. ![]()
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