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Name: Bump Murphy
From: Vancouver Island
Name: Bump Murphy
From: Vancouver Island
Comments:
Howdy Bill
The name Bump had absolutely nothing pointing towards my being a klutz. Chuckle. ..My older brother Ernie by 14 mo. when learning to talk would fumble the words a bit and come out with bump. He probably did it on purpose. He was always bossing me around as we grew older. My Mother always explained it that way. He died at Sea in the winter of 1986 on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. ...He lived a short but very colourful life on the edge. Most times on the dark side of the law. Another story. ..........For Floyd's quizzer? Well. He got me. ..I can remember only that on Patricia in the proximity of the Sports Palace there was a Maple Leaf Services sort of bldg..In Air Force, we called them Canex after unification was implemented. You know. One part was magazines. Some clothes. Writing materials. All the materials to keep a lonely soldier occupied. Shoe polish for sure. Some jewelry to send back home to his Gal. ..The other part of the bldg. had a very nice diner sort of thingy. Ice cream and pop etc.. They made the best French fries ever. I drank many bottles of 'kik' cola there. As boys we collected all the bottle tops. Of course the sealer inside was cork. We would put the cap on the outside of our shirts and secure it by using the cork on inside of skirt in a sandwich. We drank 'topsy' chocolate milk. There is one for you Floyd. What did the name and it's picture logo refer to? You only need to say you know. In those days you could get away with it. It would offend many today. Not polite to say it on line. If you are stumped, google it. Too funny. Anyway. In that bldg. in the entrance there was a small post office but probably for quick and convenient service to single soldiers and the mail bag would be picked up and delivered to the main Base PO for handling. That is all I can remember about Post Offices or their Post Master. I will wild guess he was your Dad. Hmmmmn. I spent thousands of hours running around Shilo but it does not come to mind. It will not take much to jog my memory on it.
Howdy Bill
The name Bump had absolutely nothing pointing towards my being a klutz. Chuckle. ..My older brother Ernie by 14 mo. when learning to talk would fumble the words a bit and come out with bump. He probably did it on purpose. He was always bossing me around as we grew older. My Mother always explained it that way. He died at Sea in the winter of 1986 on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. ...He lived a short but very colourful life on the edge. Most times on the dark side of the law. Another story. ..........For Floyd's quizzer? Well. He got me. ..I can remember only that on Patricia in the proximity of the Sports Palace there was a Maple Leaf Services sort of bldg..In Air Force, we called them Canex after unification was implemented. You know. One part was magazines. Some clothes. Writing materials. All the materials to keep a lonely soldier occupied. Shoe polish for sure. Some jewelry to send back home to his Gal. ..The other part of the bldg. had a very nice diner sort of thingy. Ice cream and pop etc.. They made the best French fries ever. I drank many bottles of 'kik' cola there. As boys we collected all the bottle tops. Of course the sealer inside was cork. We would put the cap on the outside of our shirts and secure it by using the cork on inside of skirt in a sandwich. We drank 'topsy' chocolate milk. There is one for you Floyd. What did the name and it's picture logo refer to? You only need to say you know. In those days you could get away with it. It would offend many today. Not polite to say it on line. If you are stumped, google it. Too funny. Anyway. In that bldg. in the entrance there was a small post office but probably for quick and convenient service to single soldiers and the mail bag would be picked up and delivered to the main Base PO for handling. That is all I can remember about Post Offices or their Post Master. I will wild guess he was your Dad. Hmmmmn. I spent thousands of hours running around Shilo but it does not come to mind. It will not take much to jog my memory on it.
Added: August 29, 2015
Name: Floyd Turner
From: Alberta
Nice to see you chime in Bill. I hope life is treating you well. It's been a long time. Not sure if Bump would remember the YPA Hall. During the period when Bump lived in Shilo, that building was called the Coffee Shop. When they built the new MLS Mall across from Strange Hall, they opened a new Coffee Shop there and the old building was converted and became the YPA Hall. Today there is newer YPA Hall, that you mentioned, built on the PMQ side of Royal Avenue, but never attended any functions there. Bump, as I recall, the old post office was the building just north of the Old Fire Hall. I could be mistaken, but I think Mr. Archibald was the postmaster and had a house directly across the street. I remember those old stores in Shilo. The dry goods store that you described and a little further down was the grocery store. I didn't drink much chocolate milk and had to Goggle Topsy. Man, that was 60 years ago!