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Who remembers...
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:15 pm
by KnowItAll
Fire alarms on most corners
Air raid drills at school
colored sugar cube vacinations (polio?)
the old fraser street bridges
Johnny seven OMA
Secret Sam
Using roller skate keys
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:23 pm
by TheLionKing
Police phones on street corners.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:43 pm
by pinkfreud
Tellers smoking in the banks
Jack Webster
Affordable housing
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:51 pm
by CB123
How long ago did all this happen? :lol:
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:58 pm
by D
start the your old jokes ..... I used to go to the store with a quarter .... get a bag of chips, a pop and a handful of those strawberry marshmallows
the other night I forgot my cell at work, I used a payphone and it cost $1
when did that go up?
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:00 pm
by CB123
cost $1
what! I didn?t know that! Maybe it was because of where you were? lol was it GM Place or something ahahhaha cuz I know how overpriced everything is there.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:31 pm
by nelson95
10 cent pack of hockey cards with gum
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:08 pm
by Solar Max
5 cent Cokes with a 2 cent deposit.
My Old man's 1970 GTO with a Sticker price of $3419. (He paid less than that)
Gas at 39.9 a gallon.
Russ refusing to talk football at school.
2 game total point Eastern Final with the West playing best 2 out of 3.
Apollo 11.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:10 pm
by West Coast Blue Fan
nelson95 wrote:10 cent pack of hockey cards with gum
WHA cards too....with a piece of poster included in every pack.
Mojo candies...2 for 1 penny
10 cent bus ride.....anywhere in the city
Gulf, Phillips, Texaco Gas.....all full serve
Chargex
2 brands of beer....Molson Or Labatts.....stubbies
Wired remote controls
"Broiled" steaks
Funny stuff
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:35 pm
by Rick James
Expo Ernie
Dollar 49 Days
Popcorn carts on english bay
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:25 pm
by bc49
$1 and $2 bills made of paper
Pop that came in glass bottles
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:28 pm
by TheLionKing
No blocking on punts.
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:29 pm
by pinkfreud
The Western Express lottery
Rolf Harris singing "Six White Boomers" at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Slim Goodbody
The Shriner's Circus at the Coliseum
The Royal Hudson
Seafest
Star Blazers
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:31 pm
by pinkfreud
bc49 wrote:Pop that came in glass bottles
Still does on Prince Edward Island...no kidding
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:42 pm
by TheLionKing
Rolf Harris singing Vancouver Town at the Cave Supper Club.