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Ad. Friday, January 25, 1985 - North Shore News

71

by Bob Hunter

Hello, Teckies :

WAS JUST TRYING to: figure out the other

day who is a modern person? I mean,,
nowadays modern. 1985. Early spring. In:

B.C., especially the Vancouver area where most of,
the people I know live.

Back in the Sixties, I recall, . beatniks, has manceed | to
-it was easy to distinguish the hold its ground as a ‘sible:
modern people from the nor- ° ' minority all this time. Con
mals, normals - meaning ~ figure it out. You never seea
anybody who-came to © beatnik.
maturity in. a ‘previous Beatniks were dead. the
decade, except for eccentrics, “moment long hair became
“mental cases and ‘folks who. something worn by anybody ~
had somehow read McLuhan, - “except concert’ pianists: and
.. despite everything. _Indians and judges with wigs.
-You could be.a. professor. Briars were replaced by fun-

with. white . hair and ‘siill be. ny little metal pipes. A lot of :

modern $0! long. as. you were: modern. people started smok- ‘

into communications: or.” ing you-know-what. Strange‘:

genetics. ‘Economics was ‘as things happened to a lot: of”

passe. as the ROTC. Art?  - people.

Well..... Sortof. vo There was this
Artists are dlways..a bit- phenomenon called ““dropp-

tricky. to’ ‘categoriz During: ‘ing out.’*. “ Lawyers meta-

the: Fifties,-’ you See,’ it‘ was. thorphosed into squatters

’ black turtle neck sweater with © It was the epitome ‘of
; your jeans ‘and ‘sandals, a str- modernity by the end of the”
ingy | beard, maybe a touique, Sixties!:to be changing .

relationships, ie., - getting -

ties. Mid-decade, though, the
underground health fad burst
into the middle class main-
stream.

Straddling this period like

_ a shaggy media coiossus was

“the image of the hippie.
There never actually were
-that. many hippies but they
“were a good Story so they got
a fot of air time. ‘Amazing
how many people I know
‘who flowered there for a
while with headbands and
bellbottoms,

. _ Alas, as the counterculture
got absorbed, an element of
wholesomeness crept in,
along with the quiche and the
‘ferns. ‘

People started stopping :
‘smeking.: Vitamins came in,
- Jogging. Swimming for long-
term health instead of
pleasure. Calories. counting

“came close to replacing reali

tate prices and interest rates
as your: set-piece Canadian
dinner conversation.

_ By. the dawn of the
‘Eighties; hippies -had’ gone
the way of the beatniks, ex-

“cept. for. the rare older
specimen bopping along, .

looking kind of happy for no

" yeason at all,

Ah, today! T’ve been temp-
| ted for quite a while to call

“the Bighties the Tech Dec ~
(Technology Decade) mean- -

ing that the-paraphenalia of

ultra technological develop-

ment has crawied in through

; athe bathroom window, so to

“in order to’ get the widest.

‘range of ideas, opinions and |
- identification of issues con-

cerned with development of
the parks, the district is en-

P_- couraging all - residents . 10

West Vancouver | 926-7547

drop in at the. Gallant
Avenue location. a _

speak. Video cassette
recorders. Cordless phones.
Answering machines. Solar-
powered calculators. Jane
Fonda workout tapes. Digital

toys. Microwave ovens. -

Home computers.

I mean, speaking ‘for
myself, we even have a
battery-operated chair that
the baby is swung back and
forth in, called (I’m not kid-
ding) a Swyngomatic.

Somewhere in the vicinity
of.the zone where the hot tub
and the software program for

personal. accounting ' meet,”.

where Beta and VHS fight to
the death for the market, and

the modem and..the-.

transformer toy lie down
together,. a new breed of
West coast modern: person is
a-mutating. | know it in my
bones.

What-to call it? A”

‘*Teckie'’? I thing that's
more to the point ‘than Yup-
pie, since so many of us who
have been through it all can
scarcely be described as
young urban anythings. But
Teckies? Yeh, I can live. with
that. Even ‘‘Tekkers.”’~

‘Gee, 1° wonder what the
Nineties will bring?

LAW SOCIETY
OF BRITISH
COLUMBIA

Q.C., has. been elected’
Treasurer tor. 1985 of the
Law Society of British,
Columbia. The Treasur- ‘
er is the senior etected .
officer of the Society.

Mr. Edwards, a part-

ner in @ Vancouver law
firm, has been a Bencher
of the Law Society since
1977. He has been chair-
man of the discipline and
finance committees and
has‘also been active in |:
the Vancouver and Can-
adian Bar associations.
.. The Law Society is the
governing, body for the
5,200-member tegal pro:
fessioninB.C.

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