Comments:
Have a great holiday and a happy and prosperous New Year!
With every Christmas turkey dinner, I remember two events: First, we lived at 20 Ubique in 1951 and I was six years old. My father stored our frozen turkey on the canopy overhanging the front steps. To retrieve the turkey my father hung me by the ankles upside down out the bedroom window. I still remember the fear of falling!The next year my Dad was in Korea and we lived in Nanaimo. Mom asked me to pick up the Christmas turkey from the Red & White Store. The turkey weighed 26 pounds and I was not tall enough to keep the head of the turkey from dragging on the ground all the way home.
Have a great holiday and a happy and prosperous New Year!
With every Christmas turkey dinner, I remember two events: First, we lived at 20 Ubique in 1951 and I was six years old. My father stored our frozen turkey on the canopy overhanging the front steps. To retrieve the turkey my father hung me by the ankles upside down out the bedroom window. I still remember the fear of falling!The next year my Dad was in Korea and we lived in Nanaimo. Mom asked me to pick up the Christmas turkey from the Red & White Store. The turkey weighed 26 pounds and I was not tall enough to keep the head of the turkey from dragging on the ground all the way home.
Added: December 28, 2013
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: Alberta/BC
E-mail: bgillespie@shaw.ca
Viewing the picture of the Schiller bros. skating in their backyard rink brought memories of the identical "Mary Maxim" wool sweaters that our Mom knitted for us when we lived on Sapper Ave.
She also knitted the one with the pheasant on the back-which was very "in" circa early 1960's! I remember that they were very warm, comfortable and that we (my Dad included) wore them to hockey, curling and the rec hall.
When the knitted items such as socks became worn-she would unravel them and use the wool again for another item-she was "eco-friendly" ahead of her time!