Our train, the P.G.E., some called the Prince George...Eventually, one could go on and on. They all trigger memories that can perhaps reprise growing up in towns like Sicamus or Ucluelet, or the first time, boarding a B.C. Ferry, leaving Horseshoe Bay. How about expressions such as "Sorry for the Inconvenience", and that logging road switchback from Tofino, (at five miles per hour)?
But once you got to the west coast of Vancouver Island, wow, what a view. It was a price well worth it to pay.
The old Vancouver Sun building looks almost hidden away, like an antique. Dwarfed by dozens of luxury towers.
That Superman’s Daily Planet like newspaper building, with Skytrain you can still catch a fast glimpse.
Perhaps names like Wasserman and Webster, for some of us it still empowers. We "pine" "fir" what used to be and how so much the "planks" of yesterday have changed since...
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