Sunday, December 12, 1999 - North Shore News - 15

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EVELYN (Boyes) McKay, who has lived 72 years on |
the North Shore, remembers the 1930s as happy and
carefree days even though the Depression hit the com-
munity like the plague.

Jobs were scarce and wages
ranged from 25 cents to 50 cents
an hour if you were lucky to get a
job ar all. One didn't buy any-
thing that was not necessary. A
good steak dinner on Lower
Lonsdale with veggies cust tifty
cents, atid an excellent meal at

id do work
sework, Waitressing or
ting for pin money, and
young men would get 2 few days’
work at a mill or ce city would hire chem temporarily for snow
shovelling or ditching. A few got permits to cut wood and sell i it.

One good thing: the Depression | years sponsored a resourceful
breed

ighbours grew closer and shared garden produce, hand-me-
down baby clothes, met at each other's homes for cards, games
and social even here were no drugs, very little drinking, and
no nervous breakdowns. Crime was negligible and divorce was
almost a no-no. :

Folks became the greatest of economists. They could make any
salary pay the bills, They knew the value of che dollar,

Not too many students went on to high school. Their goal was
to get work and eg get on with life. Tuition fees for a more formal
education were hard to come by. The forrunate ones went on to
attend university, normal school or business college. Some became
teachers, lawyers or accountants at a later time in their lives.

During the summer months, recreation mainly consisted of
free sports like baseball, soccer, softball, basketball, grass hockey
and even kick-the-can. Swimming was always fun in Mosquito
Creck and in the natural pool in Lynn Valley.

In evenings, the young folks attended the weekly dance at
Dundarave in West Vancouver ~admission was 25 cents — and
kicked up their heels to the live music of Jack Black's band, and
other groups. Two of the favourite wal n those days were Let
Me Call You Sweetheart and Save the Last Dance for Me.

After the dance they would return to North Vancouver to ¢at
at the Heywood Park Barbecue or the Tomahawk Barbecue, com-
monly called “Chick’s” — yes, you guessed i it, “Chuck”
Chamberlain’s grandfather's eatery, but in a slightly different loca-
tion than the Tomahawk Restaurant is today.

Another neat thing to do was to hire Shannon’s Taxi for $2 to

; eoee take you to the chalet at the top of Grouse Mountain to ren-
NEWS photo Mike Wakefiatd dezvous with friends.
a In winter rhe young people would go tobogganing down

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G ngerb read orl ns : | Chestertield — trom Keith Road down, Lonsdale or Mahon
Avenue. They would also take the Lynn Valley streetcar, get off at
PRESCHOOLERS Kassaundera, Stefan and Casey baked gingerbread ornaments to trim the tree at
Lynn Valley’s Chalet Preschool, run by Janet Phillips and in: operation for more than 30 years. See B.C. page 19

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