Recently, at a thrift store I picked up a treasure, a book that everyone who enjoys local nostalgia should read—'Red Robinson–The Last Deejay’, by Robin Brunet. All of us remember Red way back starting in the 1950s. It was Jack Cullen who inspired him. What a great read!
The following bit of rhyme and song, churned out with a non computerized piece of lined paper and pencil, plus a double double at a fast food restaurant, might reprise a memory or two.
The Seattle World Fair in nineteen sixty and Expo in Vancouver in sixty-six. The British Empire Games, Bannister and Landy in 1954 in Vancouver, wow, have times moved in a jiffy. Some of us were young whippersnappers back then and now old hicks.
No more fifty cent burgers at White Spot or twenty-five cent custard puddings at The White Lunch. By a time warp it feels like we are caught. Who would have ‘thunk it’, who would have had a hunch. Do you still remember songs like ‘How Much is That Doggy in the Window’? How about that classic building - still standing - that housed the offices of The Vancouver Sun. Where did those times go?
The shrine Circus at the PNE. The shoot the shoots splash filled ride. The original parade that began on Burrard, oh me, oh my. There are so many good memories floating inside! The old flag and those days after the war. The Austins, Vauxhalls and how everything used to be. So many more ma and pa corner run stores. All those waves of many yesterdays today keep reflecting on our shores.