Postcard of Yellow Roof Cabins, a cabin rental business that had been located at what is today 188 Burton Avenue in Barrie, formerly in Innisfil. The photo shows a larger house on the left with a series of small cabins in the centre and background, and a gasoline pump on the right. A sign on the far left reads "Yellow Roof Cabins" followed by "running water" and "showers". The business started sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s by Herman Osborn, a Barrie alderman who sold eventually sold to his brother-in-law Vic Church (through marriage to his wife Edna Church) in 1947. They had a gas station, which sold White Rose gas, a service station and rented cabins in the back. Vic also implemented the sale of farm implements from the site. The business eventually turned over to Vic's son Russell, who ran it for many years. Following Herman's divorce from Edna, he bought the partially finished Clansman Lodge in Big Bay Point from Allan Warnica, on the southeast corner of the 14th line and 30th sideroad. He ran that with his girlfriend and later wife, Lenore Waghorn (née Whitney) until it burned down in December 1955. Yellow Roof Cabins was sold for development and Russ Church moved the farming implement business to the 7th line, where it is still in operation as of 2019.
