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Pemberton, about where the firehall
is now, where we swung from trees
On strips of rubber from a retreading
plant and paddled around on crazy
tafts made from packing lumber.

We explored the sucking mud of
the salt flats, scrambled over half-
stranded booins, bravely walked
along the Reserve to the PGE right:
of-way to explore the old fort under
the Lions Gate Bridge, complete
with squeaking rusty doors, rotting
sandbags, machine gun pits, sagging
barbed wire and utterly impenetrable
blackness inside,

We used to fish for bullheads
from the shore, whirling a stone tied
to green handline around and around
anid then letting it whiz out to sea,
with a little leader and a hook about
a foot from the end, and pieces of the
previous bullhead for bait.

There was a watchman, a kind
old guy who lived in a small green
shack under the bridge, where Welch
Street now runs under the bridge. He
had an old dog named Blackie and
always the time to talk to us.

I tried to sled down the ZigZag
once, during one of our winter
snows. The steep trail down from
Pemberton Heights to the north end

OF TRE

of Pemberton Avenue was tou much
for me: my sled runner hit a root, the
sled stopped dead, | forgot to let go
and went heels over head and hit
full-length on the icy ground with a
bang that knocked my breath out su
thoroughly that f thought] was going
to die before my lungs began work-
ing again.

When it came time for Junior
High pretty near the whole of North
Van's Grade Eights and Nines were
bused to Sutherland School. 1
remember those days as more dislo-
cation and terror, 1 wanted to contin-
ue to be taught by Frank Dawe, my
Grade Seven teacher and one of the
few teachers who had caught my
imagination.

However, busing it was. We
would wait on Marine Drive, then
two lanes, at Macgowan, across the
street from Davenport Motors, There
was a pervert on the loose then. He
was a subject of much conversation
on those mornings of gloomy dank
fog (so-called fogs were much more
prevalent, due to the thousands of
coal furnaces and sawdust burners in
use), Even in the $950s it wasn’t a
good idea for kids to take rides. Not
that anyone ever offered.

And Herbie Davenport soon
didn't need one: HE had a car from

PEAK

Van

the day we entered North Van High,
then run by Mickey MeDougall.

I was painfully shy and self-con-
scious, awkward and unable to talk
to girls, yet starting to grow facial
hair and becoming enormously sexu-
ally preoccupied, like many young
men,

The daily bus ride was a razor’s
edge between ogling the girls and
praying that my interest didn't get so
stimulated by the jiggling of the bus
that f would have to stay on it after
everyone else got off.

Kids seem a lot cooler these days.

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