Unclaimed photos from the 1960s discovered in Winnipeg pharmacy [Video]

A box of photographs found in a Selkirk Avenue pharmacy is offering a glimpse into the city’s past and reconnecting people with long-lost memories.

Dwayne Hynes, a supervisor at Empire Drugs, discovered the unclaimed photos in an old desk while searching through the pharmacy’s basement.

“The [envelopes] were never opened,” Hynes told CTV News. “They were stapled from when they were developed – and I was the first one to see them.”

Empire Drugs supervisor Dwayne Hynes found hundreds of unclaimed photos were found in the pharmacy’s basement. (Jamie Dowsett/CTV News Winnipeg)

He said the pharmacy used to serve as a drop-off location for camera film. Customers would fill out a slip with their names and contact information, and the film was taken to Meyer’s Drugs on William Avenue to be developed.

However, the photographs of families, parties, vacations, snowstorms, and Winnipeg’s North End in the 1960s were never picked …