In the days when Jack Webster still broadcast ‘City Mike’ and Jim McDonald, I believe was on ‘WX’. My transportation consisted of my two feet, not even a CCM bike. And from Clarke and Stewart Stationary, with pencil and a dime notebook jotted down in the old fashioned way with information, an old fashioned way to ‘text,’ Canada Manpower was on Robson, where first they gave me a number called S.I.N. Wow, one thought, with all that ‘power’, what won’t they think of next? Oh well, in those early 1960s it perhaps provided a bit of foreshadowing of things that someday might unfold. Walking past all those high rollers off Hornby and Howe in the early days of downtown Vancouver was still so much fun!
In the 1970s it was quite a switch working at The Surrey Leader in Cloverdale as their photographer, etc. Those were the days of 50-foot rolls of black and white film, one cut into 36 exposure lengths and stuck into a cassette using a bulk film loader. It was magic mixing chemicals, photographing anniversaries, politicians, giant pumpkins, banging out features on a Smith Corona typewriter, living in the darkroom and chasing the Cloverdale volunteer fire-engine with my clunker of a car and Pentax Spotomatic.