In closing, just like songs can take us back, the same magic can occur by browsing the ads and pictures in newspapers of the past. They too, can be a nostalgic treasure hunt for seniors. I was looking through a few Vancouver dailies, between 1962 and 1965. What a discovery! At Vancouver Television Service Ltd, formerly located on Cambie Street, you could buy a colour TV from as low as seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Actual colour programming was available a whop-ping fifty-four hours a week but only if you had cable vision or an antenna that could pull in channel four and five from Seattle. Remember Wosk’s Ltd.? They sold appliances, etc. at their main store on West Hastings, plus four other branches in Greater Vancouver. Isy's Supper Club, on West Georgia, featured Stan Getz and his quartet, three shows nightly.
You could buy a five-year-old three-bedroom home from Block Bros for fourteen thousand, seven hundred dollars. Brand new homes in the west side ranged from nineteen thousand, five hundred dollars to thirty-six thousand nine hundred. Hard to believe, eh?!