Window Shopping

FTLComm - Tisdale - March 7, 2001

This set of pictures shows a different view of Tisdale Saskatchewan. We start with this odd image above taken around 6:00 Tuesday afternoon and showing this unusual collection of buildings in a single frame. Perhaps this picture tells a lot about Tisdale, it has a history and the new modern apartment building shows it has a future, the building seen just to the left of the apartment building is the town's fire hall while the low buildings left and right house the alfalfa lab and some offices on the right.

Tisdale is not a busy place at night and these pictures were taken around ten Tuesday evening as we look across main street at Tisdale Florists and Markwart's Jewelry store. Tisdale's retail market place is healthy when you consider the tense economic times we life in, as it continues to provide a wide range of products both on main street but also in the Tisdale Mall. The addition of Radio Shack just before Christmas, Sweet Aroma bistro this winter and last week the children's Inchworm store are very positive indicators of increasing diversity and both a positive outlook by entrepreneurs as well as the support of community and surrounding rural customers.

Pearson's department store has been a remarkable success story as it began by selling low cost lines of products and blossomed into a full fledged department store with a wide range of excellent products and is patronised by a steady flow of customers every single day.

Martin's Stereo had established itself as the town's primary source of music and entertainment electronics but when it moved across the street into this new premises the store has been expanded to include an outstanding line of upscale furniture. Quality furnishings displayed in beautiful surroundings make this one of the finest furniture outlets not just in Tisdale, Melfort and Nipawin but the product line and quality of the display and presentation rivals anything one would see in Saskatchewan cities. Tisdale is a civilised place progressive and modern while retaining its rustic charm and old fashioned values.