[URBAN NOTE] "Couple met and married at Honest Ed’s"

[rfmcdonald]

I quite liked Alyshah Hasham's human-interest story in the Toronto Star about a couple who met and fell in love at Honest Ed's.

She worked in bedding, he worked in menswear.

In the aisles of Honest Ed’s in 1955, among the low, low priced merchandise, they fell in love.

“I thought this guy was just terrific-looking. And he had a car, a beautiful new car. And I thought: Oh, he must be well-off,” says Anne Staver, 78 (“but don’t look it”), chuckling from her home in Kitchener. “Was I wrong!”

Two years later she and Carl were married.

It wasn’t a lavish affair, but it was a nice little wedding and Ed was there, along with many of the Honest Ed’s employees. They were probably the first employees to meet there and marry — she wonders if there are others.

“I had more or less just come from Northern Ireland, and that was where I went to work,” she says. It was a bustling place. “Even today, everybody wants to go where they get a deal, right? Then they did, too.”