CRRA EREL ELIS AUER RTL 1.35 PELTON AB LOTTA NO AEG ERTS PLIERS ANCL E ATES ATAMALE RTH STI TOA NET SEDAN EI ELS REO, Tourist-in- your-own- ~* LIKE A bear coming out of winter habitat I find myself grouchy, ‘not ready yet (who =: woke me up, anyway? - PH eat him’ alive), “And of course it makes me crankier to see the trees “full of buds’ and the crocus blooms painting the grassy Knolls and birds building “nests, all that hokey stuff. it takes so dared much ener- gy to respond io’ spring : properly. Maybe what I need i is a good ‘dose of sulphur and . you know what.-I think: . what it is really, it’ 8 an attack’of old age. ; find myself, brooding ut things I can’t change, like the frequency and ease: - - value: You | Can get © divorce tie family - nockage” Pent leaves. ind, and the number of ‘being brought up by. others than their mothers. who have gone’. ~: Anid'about the night- 3 mares of the old, who feer . “the discovery, that they are, hosting a cancer. So I ‘need something pos- itive.to clasp.to my bosom, mmething optimistic and forward-looking, something to work towards. And here it is, right at > hand.: I was reminded by: ing about Doug Pahl ‘ (last week) and from materi: al the City sent me that a project: designed’ to resurrect - our past is Feally going to come about. ” ae » «There is enough momen- . ‘tum, I'm sure, that the plans | ‘won't just. fade away. Not “one of us could dream of COLLISION SPECIALISTS) Our 38th Year L.C.B.C. - APPROVED CENTRE - + here very - Great.” ‘of the little biues rejecting the idea of bring- ing the Gateway to North Vancouver to fruition, which entails the restoration and imaginative renewal of areas long given over to commerce, much of which packed up years ago. And there is an abun- dance of imagination and drive amongst our planners that will bring about such a transformation. But when you focus on it, you realize the problem starts right at our front door. Our present Gateway is short on inviting lures, is actually downright unfriend- ly, and certainly tight- mouthed about offering » invitations. : Be a tourist for a minute. Pretend you've come from Alabama to enjoy the much advertised beauties of the city of Vancouver, and - you have seen our attractive slopes and want to enjoy those pleasures too. You ~ Jearn there is a cute little — ’ SeaBus available day and night, that leads into an interesting © . and busy. ‘market full . to the brim with" . Canadian ‘ there from handily. - You get a kick out."- sea journey, . > brushing * past the . a great foreign freighters. The landing area doesn’t offer much, not even a directive to the talked-about - market, but when you - emerge into a vast domed space you see buses, and a . lot of your fellow travellers seem to head purposefully “to the right, so you go with the flow. Off ahead you can see an open area — oh, it’s got a fountain, too — and there is a flower stall and look, a door. 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Gosh, took at all the stuff — glis-. - tening fruits and vegetables and spinach pies and sushi and great pans of chocolate and baked goods of every - 66 Not one of us could dream of rejecting the idea of bringing the . Gateway of North. Vancouver to. fruition, which entails the restoration: and imaginative renewal of areas long” af " given’ over to commerce, much of which packed up years ago. ?9 persuasion. There's a book store, even, and some cloth- © ing places, plus a creative - : layover for bored children. Wonderful place. . So you find the door you came in by and follow the - route back to the cute little Seabus. . . . Well, that was nice, but . where was the town? Was there semeplace else we could have gone? Funny, there weren’t any signs. You and I know there are all sorts of interesting Speelalizing Reading, Study & Tutoring things, a bit of .a tough up- hill pull, of course. But what if we moderated the up-hill part by providing a pretty walkway, angling say as far up as Third Street, which would take a lot of © sweat out of it. There could be alcoves and benches and lots of . shrubs and." flowers ‘and information’ :: panels about: tions of the delights to be : _ found on the “way back down. What in the mean- ‘time we made more of the sad sur- vivors, the buildings the town has grown up with? And they. talk of reviving the little old street-car that’s being saved - somewhere to run it up as far as Victoria Park, with informal stops for rubber- necking. And the conductors would give little spiels about the land marks and stuff like the horse-trough on Keith and take advantage of all the beautiful views Lonsdale’s width offers. 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