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Originally Posted by Keith P.
Yes, it was a car dealership until the mid-60s. It was the home of Scotia Chev-Olds which later moved onto Robie St and became O'Regans. Even after that the interior garage area was used as an Avis rental car agency into the 90s.
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Thanks! I've been wondering about this for some time. I even went looking for evidence of what the building may have been for some time and all I was able to find was this old overhead shot that I blew up from an aerial pic of the Citadel (around the fifties, I believe) on the NS archives site:
I asked around and people generally seemed to think it was a service station, but a dealership seems more reasonable to me, as the building seems to be more elegant (and much larger) than I'd expect a service station to be. You can see cars parked on the roof as well as the lot on the other side of Sackville St. Plus the larger windows on Sackville Street look like they could have been used as a showroom back in the day.
I'd love to see some closer pics of the building in its dealership livery, but I've been looking for a while and haven't come up with any yet.
Personally, I'll be sorry to see it go (I have a thing for old service stations and dealerships) as I was to see Citadel Motors, the 20s-era Irving Station on Sackville St. and the old Teasdale and Foote building on Prince Albert Rd in Dartmouth... but oh well, I guess my loss will be others' gain. It would be cool if somebody could do some kind of survey of the building before it's ripped down...
Anyways, thanks for solving the mystery for me.