THE WAY IT USED TO BE
Your first experiences on ice at the skating arena at Kerrisdale.
Great summer times in Kitsalino by the park at the old showboat.
In Dunbar, perhaps many a good garage sale.
The days when, if not Conservative or Liberal, folks for Social Credit or CCF would vote.
The old familiar architecture was still standing before all that concrete shot up like Jack and The Beanstalk.
Remembering the Aristocratic on the corner of Granville and Broadway.
The taste of their delicious ninety cents veal cutlet dinners still such good memories unlock.
The days of Wosks, Fields, Dunne and Rundle Cameras, Kellys Records and Birks.
Do you still recall that recorded familiar radio announcers voice, “We’re sorry, the number you were trying to reach is no longer in service”.
The big, thick BC telephone yellow pages.
How sometimes all that nostalgia hurts.
No more KE-Kerrisdale, MU-tual, or AM-herst, when that dial phone served such a humanistic localized Vancouver purpose.
The old Street photographers like Foncie, where the proofs could be checked on Robson Street, next day.
When Vancouver was much more easy going, less fancy.
That’s the way it used to be, eh.
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