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| . The Knot (Coffee & Gift Shop) Drinks Speciality Coffees $2.25 Speciality Teas $2.25 Regular Tea $1.25 Moccas $2.50 Cappachino's $2.50 Latte's $2.50 Expressos $2.50 Bottle Water $1.50 Hot Chocolate $1.50 Dishes Chili $5.95 French Onion Soup $5.95 Seafood Chowder $7.95 Brushetta $5.95 Mussels $9.95 Peasoup $5.95 Salads $ Sandwiches $ Deserts: Muffins $1.25 Bagels $1.95 Raisen Buns $1.25 Bread $1.95 Pies $2.75 Note: All prices subject to 13% tax. Hours of Operation: May 1st to Sept 30th from 10am til 10 pm daily. The Monkey's Fist Knot............... is most often used as the weight in a heaving line. Theline would have the monkey's fist on one end, an eye splice or bowline on the other end, with about 30 feet ( 10meters) of line between. A lightweight feeder line would be tied to the bowline, then the weighted monkey's fist could be hurled between ship and dock or vice versa. The other end of the lightweight line would be attached to a heaver-weight line, allowing it to be drawn to the target easily. The knot is usually tied around a small weight, such as a stone, marble, tight fold of paper, or a piece of wood. A thicker line will require a larger object in the center to hold the shape of the knot. Another variation of the monkeys fist knot omits the use of an external object as a weight and rather uses the spare end which gets tucked back into the knot. This results in a nicer looking knot of a lesser wight, minimizing the potential danger of hitting someone with the knot. Telephone Exchange Building...... The United Towns Electric Building Company had an extensive telephone system with several exchanges on the Avalon and Burin pennisulas. The United Towns established the First Telephone Exchange in the Carbonear area in 1902 as a means of providing communications between their power plants. This was the second telephone operation in Newfoundland. The Anglo American Company had established a telephone exchange on water street St.John's in 1885. The first building in Carbonear was a wooden building on the North Side of water street and attached to it at the rear was the United Towns Electric Company. The controlling shares of this company was taken over by J. J. Murphy and his son R. J. Murphy at a shareholder meeting in the Court House at Carbonear on February 23, 1915, thus becoming owner of the Telephone Exchange. By 1919, the Hon. John J. Murphy, President of the United Town's purchased the St.John's telephone exchange and shortly after established the Avalon Telephone Company. Two years after this (1921) the First Long Distance Line was completed between St.John's and Carbonear and the First Long Distance Call was made between the two places. It was during April 24, 1929 at around 5 am that a fire which started in the Telephone building caused one of Carbonear's biggest fires and hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage. The Telephone exchange was totally destroyed. A temporary switchboard was placed in John Foote's store by the company and had their phones working shortly after. Also, plans were made to erect a new Concrete building to house the telephone exchange. Land for this new exchange was purchased, this time on the South side of water street from J & J Maddock and construction got underway with all the concrete being poured by hand. This building which is presently standing, operated until January 31, 1961. A new Telephone Exchange was built on Saddle Hill, which made this building obsolete and shortly after the building was closed for good. This building was in sue for 32 years using the old switchboard operation and served Carbonear well. It employed many people from the town and over it's life many a story came out of this little building. During July 1973 Geoff Sterling (Apache Communications) purchased the Cameron Building and the Old Exchange and had in mind to do TV - from this location, however it never did happen. The building afterwards changed several hands with endeavours ranging form a Take-out, a Craft Gallery and now a Coffee & Gift shop. |
