July 28,

ing Lynn Valley as

MY WIFE and I are one of those
couples considered to be almost
an endangered species on the
North Shore: we were both born
here.

By Paul Hughes
Contributing Writer

In fact, we are such a rarity
that, if we were spotted owls,
Greenpeace would have halted all
new-home construction by now
and sealed off both bridges, en-
couraging us to go off into. the
trees somewhere to breed in peace.

Strictly speaking, | suppose, my
wife's citizenship is in question,
since she was born — two months
early — in the back of a cab
halfway across the Lions Gate
Bridge. (i throw this historical
tidbit in because it was the last re-
corded instance when she was ever
on time for anything, much less
early.)

Regardless of her true origins,
we both recall many of the same
things from the dim past, and if
yow ll! hang on a minute while 1
put my teeth in, Il share a few
with you.

For instance, being Catholic, we
can remember making the weekly
trek every Friday to the old fish
and chip, joint at 19th Street and
Lonsdale Avenue.

We would stare out the wins"

dows, dtculiag with un-Cathalic
dribbles of envy as every Protes-
tant from Deep Cove to Horse-
shoe Bay drove down Lonsdale
Avenue on their way to King’s
Drive-In Eatery on Marine Drive
for a deluxe hamburger and fries.

We can also remember paying
tolis on the Lions Gate Bridge;
when the Second Narrows Bridge
didn’t exist; and when North
Vancouver had a drive-in movie
theatre (and the fess prying into
that the better).

Although we can’t personally
reminisce about the strect cars
that used to ply our byways, we
sometimes pretend to, in order to
* make our older friend, Darlene,

' feel better.

_ 1 grew up in Lynn Valley, and
this makes any memories | have
of that area doubly fascinating
because at that time the Valley
was- considered a wild outpost
with about 2s much connection to
North Van proper as Bangladesh.
Only real leoney-tunes lived way
aut there,

I suppose there was some
justification fer this attitude.
After all, wasn't Lynn Valley the
habitat of that first class nut-case,
Nature Boy? ;

God knows what his real name
was, but I remember this legend-
ary character lived all alone in a
shack on 2%h Street and some-
where, He wore his hair down to
his shoulders which, in the
sparsely-domed, crew-cut era of
the ’50s, was definitely uncool.

His yard was littered with pro-
test signs, warning passers-by to
all manner of unlikely doom, such
as the dangers of nuclear fallout
and the global effect of industrial
pollution.

He never possessed a car, or to
my knowledge, ever rode the cr-
ratic, once-every-solstice transit
system of the day. He maintained,
you sec, that the internal combus-
tion engine was the curse of mod-
em civilization, and rather than
poilute the air with . noxious
fumes, he chose to walk every-
where,

I often wonder where he is to-
day. Probably still there — we
just don’t notice hint, °

Lynn Valley was also famous
for its gangs. Oh yes, we had
gangs in those days too, but they
had it all over these modern-day,
hats-on-backwards types currently
slithering through the night.

At least gangs in my day had

some imagination. and didn’t

choose wussy names th. sound ag
if they were all stringers for the
Vicnna Boy’s Choir. | mean I ask
you, who would you rather be
mugeed by -—- The North Van
Club, or the Lynn Valley Smiling
Crabs Society?

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