PHOPALOGGO Abe nob seaeeaseeecesanseneaeeseenet leanor vintage years WE go shopping, my “husband and I, now that he is free in the daytime, sometimes taking the-car, some- times just walking up to the cornucopia which lies on Lonsdale. And I think of shop- ping as it was in my girlhood and I feel like Alice in Wonderland. There weren’t that many , places to choose from in my town, in the first place, and. oe a lot of our purchases, e majority of the scrious ~- ones certainly, came via the in from Eaton’ $ catalogue. fectly. Even our honey, whieh the stepfather considered an sary adjunct to his brea — we'd get six, cight f ‘ tins at a time; it came by train trom the Prairies somewhere, Buckwheat was his favorite, awfully strong and dark col- ored. [hated it. But we did use one of the local stores for most of our other groceries, and that grocery store reflected the times per- You didn’t walk in with your list and start filling your cart, I can tell you — tor one thing the goods were all on shelves on the walls, which must have been 30 feet high. No, you went to the propri- etor and recited your list, which he copied onto his pad and then went to round up for you. : He'd run around the cav- ernous store, picking up this and that, dragging c wheeled ladder here and -- there, and when all was cor- ralled he would tote up the #® SENIORS Remembering origin of one-stop shopping bill and give you a copy, I'you could carry the stuff, fines if it required deliv- OK it would be along as s possible, certainly ner time, «'.. you weat to the proprietor. and recited your list, which he -copied and then went to round up for you. ” I can’t remember any sort of charge for that, can you? Not even a dime fr the boy who brought it. If memory serves, a and it doesn’t always these days, the store we patronized was kitty- corner from the Government Buildings where the step{a- ther had his office. It was the store that men would go to who were heading for the northern bush, because it handled the sort of stuff they’d need, bulk sugar and flour and slabs of bacon and blankets and coal oil and chewing tobacco, I recall snow-shoes on the store walls NEWS photo Miko Wakstieid “Beacon Hill bus” WEST Vancouver’ 3 Beacon Hill Lodge raised $110,000 tow rd purchas of a new us. Above, resident Margaretta Foster cuts the riobon while executive director “Janet Cunningham looks on. The charitable society provides transportation for care-home residents and the disaoled. There’s a zeal alternative’ to the high cost of dealer service. ae AP Me fad Summer Service Specials Save 20% off our already icw rates on air ‘conditioning & transmission service BMW INSPECTION | ONLY $145" PLUS PARTS* INSPECTION I! 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