There were negatives and positives, with 8 by 10 black and white glossies all over the place and Canadian Pacific Railway postcards glued into booklets. What breathtaking scenes! All this together with 5 by 7 glass plates, Kodak developer, stop bath, fixer darkroom fumes. Down there, history had stopped, frozen in time, it seemed.
Folks, today, if you see a Canadian postcard with someone’s handwriting, cherish it, almost like a painting at the Louvre. Every one of them is an original, inviting you to delve into our history and perhaps be both humbled and moved.
Stores of the past, their slogans, events (like The British Empire Games in Vancouver) and personalities can have quite an impact to triggering memories.