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| Photos by Patti W. -- June 2003 | |
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| Photos by Patti W. -- June 2003 | |
Do your remember eating Aurora's Pizza?
Growing up near Bruce St. and Grosvenor in the Soo I was lucky to have everything I needed right in the neighbourhood including a couple of very good restaurants.
Long before Aurora's moved into its palatial space on McNabb in the mid 1980s it started out as a small restaurant on the corner of Bruce & Grosvenor.
I recall as a very small child going to family dinners and birthday parties in a fairly modest family restaurant on the southwest corner of Grosvenor and Bruce St. If I recall the original Aurora's Pizza was white building that you had to walk up a small number of steps to enter. Being a small kid two steps could seem like a whole flight, so my memory could be bit faulty here.
A popular place even then (circa early 1970s) Aurora’s soon needed a new space and built a new facility on the northwest corner of the same intersection on the site of an old Red & White grocery store. This new modern facility was packed more often than it was not and started to attract crowds from all over. As a child I ate less frequently at this new location, but very often my parents would order out or bring home Aurora’s pizza. My mouth is watering just remembering Aurora’s pizza on its cardboard tray in a brown bag with the juices soaking through the paper.
Sometime in the early 1980s Aurora’s decided it was time for a move again moved to its current location on McNabb. Always a popular family restaurant, I try to make an opportunity to eat there whenever I am in the Soo.
I originally wrote this review in August of 2001 when Aurora's was still open on McNabb Street. I only recently learned that it closed sometime in the spring of 2003. If anyone has any more details on its closer or what becomes of the restraunt please email me at soomemories@yahoo.ca.
Andy Taylor -- July 2003
I'd also like to thank my sister Patti for the two photos she took of Aurora's while visiting the Sault this summer.
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