When colour TV was for most consumers an extravaganza, today it helps us to ponder...where all the years went...and the ‘yellow’ went...brushing our teeth with Pepsodent.
In Vancouver, we had Plimley Motors and on Broadway, Dueck. Do you remember such lines as, “wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?”
How about the nineteen fifties and Peoples Credit Jewellers? Never borrow money needlessly but, if you must there was HFC.
Up here we were used to pints, pecks, inches, and Made in Canada wooden rulers. On CKNW, Jack Webster’s City Mike, then later on Ed Murphy and Pat Burns, and yes, ”precisely” so much more input from the average lunch bucket Joe and Jane, issues on radio were discussed.
Do you remember Honest Nat’s Department Store, 48th and Fraser? On CKWX, do you remember Bob Hutton and Woodwards’ dollar forty-nine day on Tuesdays. Some of those jingles for seniors help restore good feelings put good old fashioned familiarity right back on the button.
So much in our language is rooted in nature. Where it all stems from, sometimes requires going out on a limb.