FOCUS - SEPTEMBER 2018 55 & & & Then& &Now Then & Now is an excerpt from the Rewind Scugog series of books by J. Peter Hvidsten. Rewind Scugog books are available at Book’s Galore & More, Perry Street, Port Perry The garage on this property was first established in the early 1900s as the Standard Garage. In 1945 Murray Williams bought the property and took on Shell gasoline and established a Ford, Mercury dealership. When Mr. Williams moved to the western part of town in 1952, Vern Bryden bought the property and moved in and acquired the Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership. In 1961 Jack Hope purchased the property, demolished the garage and constructed a new building to house his IGA grocery 2016 1945 store. Mr. Hope sold it to Dan Madsen in 1966 and it changed hands again in 1973 when Alex Ramey purchased the building, hiring Jim Grieve as its manager. The building has undergone a number of expansions since that time to modernize the grocery store. Sobey's purchased Port Perry IGA and in April 2007 replaced the familiar signs with the large, new Sobey's logo, ending a 54 year tradition in Port Perry. Another change came in 2012 when Sobey's rebranded the Port Perry store as Foodland. MURRAY WILLIAMS SHELL STATION