Wahoo! But . . .

[albertabluesky]

Pretty well every time there was a session like that at the Quarterway, I always used to wonder why they didn't just take those red terry towelling table covers they had, with elastic around the edges to hold them on, and just wring them out? Sometimes they got soaking wet, and it seemed like I was the only one who even noticed. Tempted sometimes to take it off, go behind the bar, wring it out in the bar sink, and return with it.

Okay I've had a few beverages that I'm sure were the product of that terry towel wring out!!

[Nostradama]

Okay I've had a few beverages that I'm sure were the product of that terry towel wring out!!

Wouldn't make any difference to me--they all taste the same--BAD! Let's face it, I'm a cheap date. No liquor or wine tab at the end of the evening.

[Spence]

Searching back in my brain, it seems to me the "cruising strip" in Nanaimo went from Front Street by the cenotaph, along Church to the intersection of Bastion and Commercial. No traffic light just stop signs on Bastion, so it was smooth sailing down Commercial to hopefully make the light at Terminal. From there it was along Commercial to where it became Victoria Crescent at the bottom of Albert St. Past the Queens and then left where the Co-op and A&W are now stopping at Terminal Ave.(can't recall whether there was a light or not, think it was just a stop sign. Left onto Terminal, around the curve by the fountain past Simpson Sears and the Bank of Montreal. Right at Lindsays onto Commercial and back up to the top at Front St. The coal monument sat in the middle of the Church and Front intersection, and traffic could loop around it, and start the route all over again. Occasionaly we would go up Albert and along Cavan, to see if someone we knew was coming out of the liquor store with some "cold ones". I think the single most thing about the 76 Bathtub riot, was a very inebriated mayor Frank Ney attempting to STAND in the middle of Commercial ST. and also ATTEMPTING to read the riot act, something that had to be done before the police could take action. A lot of the bottles came from the roof of Charlie Yorks, which was fairly accesbile from Skinner St. in front of the Palace. I believe more police arrived from up and down the island, and when they finally cleared the streets they started at Terminal and went right up Commercial to Front, by that time the lookie lous were following the line. when they reached the Malaspina, people had pretty well dispersed, they then turned around and started back down, to take care of the lookie lous. Thats about when this lookie lou decided it was time to go home. Aaah Friday nights in Nanaimo in the sixties and seventies. Thanks for the opportunity to relive them.

[stanley strazza]

.....hey old timers.....who popped the Cassidy Drive-In screen a while ago anyways.....I heard about a half dozen took the credit for that stunt......tsk,tsk,tsk........stan the man

[Nostradama]

.....hey old timers.....who popped the Cassidy Drive-In screen a while ago anyways.....I heard about a half dozen took the credit for that stunt......tsk,tsk,tsk........stan the man

What happened? Like holes in it, or they stole parts of it? Remember being out there watching the movie the Beatles did, "Concert for Bangladesh" in a Lincoln that a friend of yours and mine rebuilt from a wreck (some guy had managed to drive it into the water from the yacht club parking lot, as I recall). Lady he was with dropped a cigarette on the upholstery. Big burn mark. I'm surprised he didn't make her walk back to town, he was so PO'd.

[stanley strazza]

What happened? Like holes in it, or they stole parts of it? Remember being out there watching the movie the Beatles did, "Concert for Bangladesh" in a Lincoln that a friend of yours and mine rebuilt from a wreck (some guy had managed to drive it into the water from the yacht club parking lot, as I recall). Lady he was with dropped a cigarette on the upholstery. Big burn mark. I'm surprised he didn't make her walk back to town, he was so PO'd.

......oh! ya' he had tore that whole Lincoln apart piece by piece....put it all back to-gether.....and that became a payback for someone else who had said he would never amount to much.....I suppose now that he was driving a big fancy car he must've figured that this would definately show this other dude that he had became something....I reminde him that his Lincoln should have been made for himself and not to try and prove anybody wrong.....you do remember that right Nostradama.......stan the man

[Nostradama]

......oh! ya' he had tore that whole Lincoln apart piece by piece....put it all back to-gether.....and that became a payback for someone else who had said he would never amount to much.....I suppose now that he was driving a big fancy car he must've figured that this would definately show this other dude that he had became something....I reminde him that his Lincoln should have been made for himself and not to try and prove anybody wrong.....you do remember that right Nostradama.......stan the man

Oh yes. Whole thing was a sad story. Haven't seen the Lincoln-reassembler in years, so I hope, finally, the story had a happy ending. Somehow I suspect not. Even sadder.

[stanley strazza]

.....he is still living on Gabe now right across from a lawdogs house......possibly for savety reasons I suppose.....he had done some shady activity sometime ago with his mom or something, it's a long story.......I went to visit him a few years back and he still talks down to me as he always has.....I have written him off then as ano brainer.......stan the man

[Nostradama]

.....he is still living on Gabe now right across from a lawdogs house......possibly for savety reasons I suppose.....he had done some shady activity sometime ago with his mom or something, it's a long story.......I went to visit him a few years back and he still talks down to me as he always has.....I have written him off then as ano brainer.......stan the man

I've sent you a personal message about this, OK?

[nanaimoboy]

Ok, so who here is going to admit to being responsible for spray-painting the "Kiss me, Pierre" phrase on the railway overpass at Chase River ? I remember seeing it as a kid, but not really understanding Trudeaumania.

I remember that. I think I'll go write it up there again