Campbell River and Discovery Inn, Ucluelet and The Thornton Motel. All those Wickaninish, Long Beach and Tofino memories keep drifting in. Victoria’s Crystal Gardens pool, you may remember well.
With my parents in the early nineteen-fifties, it was twenty-four dollars at the Empress Hotel in the summer for a room. Doing sales in the nineteen-sixties, staying at the Churchill Hotel in Victoria was about six dollars for a room per night. Those days played a kind of slower paced tune.
The way of life today is totally out of sight! Anybody out there remember the Barclay Hotel in Port Alberni? A coffee in those days everywhere in B.C. was a dime. We’ve come a long way compared to today’s high speed journey. All those amazing ‘improvements’ in a relatively short space of time.