Love Those Cars By Rod Brown   Here’s the scene – 1965 and my father is constantly complaining about those long haired beatniks (imagine my father quoting Jack Kerouac) called The Beatles. I’m in high school searching for that one true love, that one special person, who would inspire me to achieve greatness or at least to get my own … Read More

Murphy’s Drug Store by Carl Harrison   I grew up in a part of town called St. Vital and the street I lived on was a couple of blocks from the end of the bus line. Life in the mid 60’s was simpler and parents thought nothing of kids heading downtown by bus on Saturday to catch a matinee. Our … Read More

The One Room School House by Helga Ross Growing up on the farm in southwestern Manitoba in the fifties, I spent my entire elementary school days at a small red- brick, one- room school house in Lena, Manitoba on the prairie. People often joked that Lena was so small they didn’t allow electric razors, otherwise the street lights would go … Read More

The Westwood Dubs by Johnston Smith   It was a 1967 February Saturday around 4:00 in the afternoon and the gang was hanging around in Allan and Dan’s basement. The twins had very progressive parents who’d allowed these two talented artists to create a teen hangout out of about 1/3 of the basement of their River Heights home. Technically, it … Read More