Postcard Memories is a weekly series of historic postcard views and photos submitted by Marcel Rousseau.
Some were previously published by the Orillia Museum of Art and History and in the book Postcard Memories Orillia.
Starting in the late 1950s, Ed Healy, Frank Kelly, Jimmy MacKechnie and Louie Hill formed a group called the Rhythm Kings. A short time later, the group reorganized with Healy playing guitar, Gerry White on trumpet, Gord King on sax and Louie Hill playing drums.
For close to five years, the group played weekends during the summer at the Riverside Inn at Port Severn. The next two summers the Rhythm Kings played every Friday and Saturday night at the Milford Bay Manor in Muskoka.
During the winter they entertained local audiences with their style of swing and popular dance music at Fern Resort, the Birchmere and the Orillia Legion.
In early 1966 the group booked in for one night at the Continental Inn in Barrie. Hill had left the group and was replaced by drummer Terry Wiseman from Toronto. Dell Jackson, who owned Jackson Motors, and was also the owner of the Continental Inn, liked the group and booked them to play every Saturday night.
They became the Continental Quartet and for the next seven years, summer and winter, the Continental Inn became one of the favourite dance clubs in Barrie.
