tee Certainly,” there, ,is--no Li, a, “lifestyle like it. Just being on. ae . “the water has some kindof ~ . - definite (if as yet not defined) oe : _effect.‘on your brain. One ! ‘theory says the ions in the air, change over water, but that. doesn’t really tell me a Jot. 1 used to live in Faise Creek ‘in that little dogleg lagoon on rat Granville Isiand. Our / :floathouse — rented from a ‘s>7*North. Van, doctor friend, who'd gonzed out there in his student days — was tied up at the end of a totally hazardous lot dock; It compared with Hong ot :*.. Kong's finest, seaside shantie a - . scenes. “About the. only thing that © x wasn't happening down there ; was that nobody was selling fish,.“And of course. the ‘. reason for that’ was--that ‘ ' False, Creek. in those. days ‘ ‘ought to! have been. charged >with attempted suicide. ‘My beloved and I were ac- ae tually “foolish' enough to Fou: _|, «plunge -into the water one mal afternoon. We were wearing _ wetsuits. And we only stayed in a few minutes. ‘hat’s what + , saved us. The skin rashes and ” sickening coughing bouts ime. when all the heavy cwas being torn down. The ‘landmark. then was | the ' \V.LE.W. building. But as the bulldozers: snarled their way through toxic: rubble in: the “wake of the wrecking cranes, 4- Sunday, Apri! 28, 1985 - North Shore News “the northeastern side of - * anybody who ate a fish out of - ‘industry along Sixth Avenue” - they. ie high as they got: down | ee that floathous¢s’ are coming’ bak: ‘in . style. Good. Good. Someday ul mig tn 4 back #3. and: ‘live on one myself." shelling out a, few, ‘bucks a “month to some foundry - owner or-even just to a night watchman. ‘who conveniently looked the other way. Wharf-rats all, we liked to think. of ourselves as “‘tiveaboards.”* It had a ring. Except for our floathouse, looming squatly aad somewhat gigantically among the masts and riggings, the rest of the denizens down there in the shadow reaim of False Creek lived on their boats. . And a motley collection of boats it was, from a plywood trimaran -kept afloat with styrofoam blocks and corked ‘empty bottles (it made quite beautiful sounds as it rocked in the water, tinkling) to the immense blue yacht owned by Old Man Clay. Yet'our floathouse was the queen. Green shingles with a . peaked cedar shake roof and . most distinctively of all a ten- foot-high drawing of Charles Shultz’s ‘‘Snoopy,’’’ perched on his doghouse. The massive logs — three feet across — upon whick the Snoony house sat so calmly, had been in the ocean for a Jong, Jong time. No one knew been moved into the Creek sometime’ ‘shortly after the fire that razed the once-vast (and iil-reputed) floathouse community. existing there back in the 1940s. 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