Al8 - Sunday, April 17, 1983 - North Shore News

IN_THE SPRING OF '77

REMEMBER the way things
were just six short years ago?
The year in which the
Sunday News first hit the
doorsteps of North and West
Vancouver, on April 17,
1977...

The big thrill for North
Shore commuters was the
introduction of the SeaBus
ferry from Lower Lonsdale
to the foot of Granville.

The date announced for
completing the new centre-
span deck of the Lions Gate
Bridge was the late summer
of 1978 (in April 1983 it
hasn't even been started!)

West Van _ Presbyterian
Church celebrated its 25th
anniversary by burning its
mortgage.

They were arguing about

whether to allow a neigh-
borhood pub at Queen's and
Lonsdale.
_ West Van's” recycling
depot for newspapers,
bottles and tin cans began
operating 12 hours a day, six
days ae week.

The Internationa! Plaza —
in receivership for six
months — was facing im-
minent foreclosure for a
$12.5 million default.

West Van residents were
fighting each other over a
proposed skateboard rink at
Inglewood School.

The 30-year-old North
Shore Times and its two-
month-old Sunday edition
closed down for good.

Don Bell was just getting
into his stride as mayor of
North Van District for the
next six years.

Mayor Peter’ Jones
presided over West Van
council and Mayor Tom

Reid was still cracking the

whip in the City council
chamber.

Seat belts became
mandatory.

Jack Webster (as yet with
no three-piece suits) was the
morning hotliner at CJOR
Radio.

CBC-TV = anchor-woman
Judy Piercy wore her hair
down over her shoulders and
dressed like a varsity under-
grad on a federal scholar-
ship.

Bing Crosby, 72, was. just
out of hospital after injuring
himself by falling off a stage
(in front of Bob Hope, too!)

Toronto's Jerome
Drayton, a 32-year-old civil
servant, won the Boston
Marathon.

Dutch adventurer Willy de
Roos, 54, sailed alone round
the Northwest Passage in a
40-foot ketch.

The Canadiens beat out
the Boston Bruins to win the
Stanley Cup. And Montreal
also grabbed the Grey Cup
when the Alouettes defeated
the Edmonton Eskimos.

The Canadian dollar
dipped to 95 cents U.S.

The federal deficit rose to
$8 billion (this year it will be
nicely over $20 billion. )

Inflation was running at
eight per cent.

So was unemployment,
with 800,000 jobless and the
rate in the 15-24 age group
nudging 15 per cent.

Sunday News ads featured

new two-bedroom condos in
West Van for under $60,000:

car tune-ups (parts and
labor) for $35; three room-
size carpets cleaned for

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browse

The way things were ...

$34.95; prime rib restaurant
dinners for $7.95; and sirloin
tip roasts at $1.55 per lb. and
the average weekly wage
was $270.

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statement in our 2-
piece suits by EDEN
Creations and Mr.
Leonard. New mer-
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daily to add to our
finest selection of
spring stock.

Priced from$ 120.

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