Pine Grove Take Out, Milton, Nova Scotia

Pine Grove Park is definitely a gem for the Liverpool area. Bowater has owned it for a number of years and have continued to invest in the park, making lots of walking trails and adding lots of rhododendrons and other beautiful plants and shrubs for all of us to enjoy. The park was once the location of a few houses, some occupied by Jollimore and Roy families. The Roy family (James and Elizabeth) were my great great great grandparents and their house was located down near the river's edge in a clearing known as Roy's Clearing which has many beautiful rhodis and is a great place to take photos. The houses were there many, many years ago. During the 1970s when I was a kid, you could drive your car down through the entire park and in what is now the large parking area, there was a take out on the left. The Pine Grove Take Out was operated by Henry Lee (originally from Hong Kong) and his wife Marion. The food was delicious and the smell from the take out I will never forget. It was a small building as I recall with a door on the left end of it and when you went inside there was a counter with Marion there to greet you and take your order. She was always a sweet lady,  always friendly to the customers, and as I remember she had a gold tooth in the front that you could see when she talked. There were chairs lined up along the wall and windows all along behind the chairs which looked out to the parking lot. There was a wall with a small window behind the counter looking into the kitchen where you could see Henry cooking up tasty meals of fish and chips, hamburgers, etc for his patrons and when the food was prepared it would be passed out through that window to Marion who put it in brown paper bags. Henry got sick with cancer I believe and he passed away in 1978- the take out never reopened. Marion passed away in 1992. The building was moved up in the woods behind where it had been, probably used for storage and the last I knew it was still there. I've never seen a picture of the old take out but would love to find one so if any readers out there has a photo please contact me.