Phil Gaglardi’s ‘Sorry for the Inconvenience’ signs on that switchback from Port Alberni to Tofino. The era of W.A.C. Bennett and Dave Barrett were special.
Howie Bateman’s ‘coffee house’ the Inquisition, what an espresso, what a cappuccino! The construction of the Upper Levels Highway when it cost five thousand dollars to buy a lot overlooking the scenic harbour of Horseshoe Bay.
By time warps some of those days some seniors are still caught. Jack Wasserman’s column and Paul St. Pierre. Eric Nicol and, of course, “Precisely!” There was a kind of magic in the air. By seeing an old issue of the Sun or Province, with ‘a cool one’ like Uncle Ben’s, sure could go down nicely!
Those of us who have done a bit of travelling by train, or eight cylinders but maybe only six spark plugs firing, might be fuelled by the following rhyming nostalgia.