Comments on: 7 Most Pivotal Musical Memories

By: Bill Ursulescu

Bill Ursulescu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:04:37 +0000

It’s always amazing what can trigger a memory. A sound, a smell, even just a single word said in another converation. Thanks for sharing with me Jacquie. And I hope you moved somewhere just as memorable.

“There are no days more full than those we go back to.”
— Colum McCann

By: jacquie

jacquie — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:33:53 +0000

Your attention to detail is remarkable, Bill. I think the most daring of us used to make our way down to the sawdust piles near Marine Dr. to risk life and limb sliding down the Mt Everests of wood chip piles.

I loved heading out over the old Fraser Bridge. My dad would take us to a pool out in Richmond along that route. I left the area at the start of grade 4 so my memories stop there (duh).

So many changes … sigh…

By: Bill Ursulescu

Bill Ursulescu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:22:59 +0000

I can remember smokes costing 66 cents a pack back then. At the D and I market it was candy to the right, pop to the left and no tofu in sight.
If someone was really went on an adventure then went down to the Blue Boy hotel or for the truley gutsy the old Fraser Street Bridge.

By: jacquie

jacquie — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:13:23 +0000

I was often sent on a ‘cigarette run’ up to that corner store. Imagine that. A little kid popping by to pick up cigs for the parents! So not PC!

: )

By: Bill Ursulescu

Bill Ursulescu — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:18:23 +0000

Thanks for posting back. The 70′s were such great time. No fear of being outside at the park or walking to school. I remember my parents sending me to the corner store, D and I market it was call at 61st and Frasier. Goodtimes
P.S. Thank god for sisters with records