Jim Sturrock.
Jim Sturrock, 72, took over in the late 1970s and has passed the business to his daughter Wendy, who also opened the neighbouring Room 39 Boutique in 2015. Jim’s granddaughter Connie runs the adjacent hair salon at Room 39.
“It’s a great area to live in and it’s the people who make it,” says Jim, a Stobswell resident for 32 years.
“We always make everybody welcome; whether they come from the south or north they integrate into Stobswell.
“I know a lot of people in Stobswell and they know me. We look after each other.”
Living the dream at Baxter Park Terrace
war ii generation figure. i think part of it is because of his grandfather and his father, but when you were around mccain it felt more as though you were around herman wokes, pug henry. of course bob dole, senator dole, george h.w. bush, going back, president ford, you had these figures who had served in the great struggle against tyranny, the great global struggle, and mccain just breathed that world in. mrs. mccain, roberta mccain who we just saw, had an apartment up an connecticut avenue, sort of in that old washington world where mamie and dwight eisenhower also had an apartment when ike was chief of staff to
naval captain named pug henry and i remember suggesting to mccain once in an interview that his father struck me as a pug henry type and without hesitated, he said my father was exactly like pug henry. sort of a taciturn and no nonsense and do your duty. and that is that is some part of john mccain himself. he does represent a tradition of sacrifice and of service. not to be sentimental or to suggest he s a perfect figure. but there is in his legacy those virtues like senator dole, like george herber walker bush, like bob kerry and john kerry, like john lewis, who also bears the wounds of an american war from the civil rights struggle. there are very few vanishingly
hen henry type and without hesitated, he said my father was exactly like pug henry. sort of a taciturn and no nonsense and do your duty. and that is that is some part of john mccain himself. he does represent a tradition of sacrifice and of service. not to be sentimental or to suggest he s a perfect figure. but there is in his legacy those virtues like senator dole, like george herber walker bush, like bob kerry and john kerry, like john lewis, who also bears the wounds of an american war from the civil rights struggle. there are very few vanishingly few people in american public life any more who bear those wounds of valor. and i think it gives them it
senator mccain is so interesting because he is a veteran of the vietnam war. but to so many americans he feels as if he s almost an honorary member of the greatest generation. he seems a more of a world war ii type character than one from the decades past. i remember talking to him about it sounds as though we had a book club which we did not. but there was we used to talk about hemingway which he did. but we also talked about her man woke. the great novelist who two marvelous books, winds of war and the war and remembrance and the protag annist played by robert meacham in the 80s, a naval captain named pug henry and i remember suggesting to mccain once in an interview that his father struck me as a pug