What about names like Hubert Humphrey and Adlai STEVENSON and Walter Cronkite saying, “And that’s the way it IS”? Those days, looking back now seem so much FUN and the magazine covers with BURTON and LIZ.
Chocolate bars used to be about a DIME and a tank full of gas, around five BUCKS. Watching black and white TV with a seventeen inch screen meant such an exciting TIME, like all those cartoon shorts at the movies, Daffy Duck to BUGS.
Carol Burnett and Canada’s Wayne and SCHUSTER, on the Ed Sullivan Show, what a variety of entertainers from Elvis to Myron COHEN. Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour and the sponsor, a vitamin BOOSTER. All those years, before the CELLULAR PHONE. There wasn’t much time for ‘tired blood’. What a ride, what a ROLLER COASTER!
Those of us who have roots to living a few years—or more—in Vancouver, will likely remember the Cave Supper Club, Isy’s, Oil Can Harry’s, the penguins at Stanley Park zoo, the Aristocratic Restaurant Chain, and, of course, Foncie, the street photographer (next door to Maple Leaf Barbers on Robson where you could have a peek at the proofs) downtown. With that bit of nostalgia and the following, ‘rhyming scribblings’, best wishes of the season and a great 2016!