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his is something |
frivolous about,
seriously.

Ou; subject is Expo.

Let me confess something.
First of afl, | am one of
those British Columbians,
perhaps rare at this stage,
but certain to be ome more
numerous, who has actually
made money out of Expo

Made money? Well, aren't
1 making money at the mo-
ment by writing about it?
Darn toots! And that’s the
essence of the operation,
folks! There are a whole
bunch of people already
making money out of Expo,

‘although Jimmy Pattison,

the number one honcho,
isn’t one of them. He’s do-
ing it gratis.
Thank you, Jimmy.

What | really mean by
“making money’’ is as a
freelance writer who is called
upon from afar to tell it like
it is about Expo. I’m not th
e only one,. by the way.
There are any number of
wordsmiths in B.C. who
never got a call from an
editor further east than Bur-
naby or further south than
Richmond in their lives who
are suddenly having. to
answer calls in the middle of
the night from Australia and
Switzerland, asking them
what’s going to happen in
Vancouver in 1986?

«1 was talking to.an_ editor
down east the other day
about an Expo story—one,

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can’t even get seriously
let alone frivolously

like I say, of many—and she
wanted to know, come on,
really, Bob, is it gonna
work?

Without any hesitation, 1
found myself saying: Yeh, of
course it ist 1-can hardly
wait!

And, by the way, it will.

Locally, there is this
bizarre mindset that suggest
(a) if you think Expo might
work you must be some kind
of Socred agent eager to
stomp on the fingers of poor
carpenters trying to feed
their children, and (b) you
must be oblivious to the fact
that the 1985 World Exposi-
tion at Tusukuba, Japan, is
going to make everything
that follows look like Boon-
dock City, the view advanc-
ed by futurist Frank Ogden.

Well, hold it! Among the
people I’ve talked to is a
chap who was high. up in
management ait the previous
three North Amcrica World
Fairs, and his comment is
that everybody is going to be
blown out of their chairs by
what they see at Expo 86 in
Vancouver ‘once. the wraps
come off what is being kept
secret so far.

This is a guy with no axe
to grind whatsoever, since
he's not involved in the cur-
rent project.

Let me add that | have
Spent a good amount of time

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10 am to 5 pm

yakking it up with Bruno
Freschi, Expo's chief ar-
chitect, and while Bruno is
always careful to keep trade
secrets secret, | get a definite
impression that he is not ex-
actly expecting to walk away
in disgrace from this
ultimate opportunity to
show his stuff.

There’s the key. There are
a lot of local people with
that same feeling.

The obvious example is
Jimmy Pattison himself.
Would he risk the credibility
he has built up over the
years on hare-brained
scheme? You'd have to be
hare-brained yourself to
think so.

It is easy to forget how
much pleasure and pride
Vancouver got out of the
Habitat convention in 1976.
For a moment, you may
recall, we were the centre of
the United Nations’ atten-
tion.

On the whole, we laid on a

mind-boggling show, and it
had its wee effect on the
world.

At Expo, we're going to
do the same, only on a larger
scale. I'm not saying this out
of mindless boosterism, by
the way. Gimme a break!
From what few inside tracks
I have, it is clear to me that
this is going to be a great
show,

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