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"In the summertime, there was always swimming out at Elk Lake and Beaver Lake if you could get there. We used to go pretty well everywhere on a bike. We pretty well made Out own entertainment, although there was a church on Cedar Hill Rd. where we used to go every Friday night to see a free show. All you had to do was bring something to eat." RICHARD 'BUNGY' WILLIAMS, 80 "We'd play soccer, but there wasn't really a field. We did sneak out in the middle of the night." CHARLES ROY SPELLER, 76 "As a teenager, I collected Old Model T's. When I was in high school, I was the only person with a car except for one teacher. When I was 15, I used to drive a 1917 Model T to school without a driver's licence. The police used to think it was funny because the car had a 1915 licence plate on it. As school years went on, I was transportation for the soccer team together with the one teacher who had a car. Once in awhile a teacher would come along and give me 50 cents from the school board to pay for the gas. Gas was around 25 cents a gallon back then. I didn't have time for anything else. I didn't smoke, and all my money went into gasoline and 10 cent hamburgers." GEORGE F. WILLIAMSON, 79 "We window-shopped-we wandered around town looking in the windows hoping we could buy something. It was like admiring things in the catalogue. We'd go to movies downtown or for long walks. I loved to dance so we'd go to dances at the Crystal Gardens. It's turned into a tourist attraction now, but it had a beautiful swimming pool and a wonderful dance floor. It was very, very romantic because we were sitting around under palm trees, listening to the music, and we could look down at the water. It was just a lovely place to dance." LYNETIE 'LYN' STOFER, 76 A day out at Cadboro Beach "We all had bicycles, and we'd take a picnic and go on bicycle afternoons. We'd go to the occasional movie which was kind of cheap in those days. It was 5 cents on the bus each way, 10 cents to get in the theatre, and then we had a nickel to spend. We could go out for the afternoon for 25 cents-you can't even get a chocolate bar for that now." GRACE LOUISA (SINCLAIR) NICKELS, 77 "We used to ice skate at the arena, then unfortunately it burned down. My brother had a little job, and he paid to have my ice blades taken off and roller bottoms put on. Then I roller-skated at the roller bowl on Government St. We had a live organist who played music-it was nice to skate to live music. When we got the arena downtown, I went back to ice-skating. We also did things at home. We played marbles, and in the house, we did embroidery, tablecloths and napkins for our hope chest." MEETING PLACES ... BETTY-JEAN 'BY (SAUNDERS) FAIR "We had one street lamp at Cedar Hill Cross Rd. and Richmond and we used to gather at that corner. There was only one other light at Shelbourne and Cedar Hill Cross Rd., and there was another gang a little older than we were who used to gather there." ERIC 'STOFE' STOFER, 85 ' \ ."
"We used to playa fair amount of basketball at the Lakehill Community Centre. We didn't hang around on street corners. One of my three best friends had a ping pong table and we used to play ping pong day and night. It was great." RIC HARD 'BUNGY' WILLIAMS, 80 "We used to get together on the corner of Milgrove and Obed because there was a street light there. We'd play 'Run Sheep Run' or 'Follow the Arrow' or something like that, then mom was always ready to call us home by 9 a' clock." GRACE HAWKINS, 79 ''At school, I'm in Leadership which is a group that organizes fun activities for the school." TESSA HOLOWACHUK, 17 "I'm involved with my church youth group, and when I was younger I was in Cubs and Scouts. By the time I was that age it was co-ed." BETHANY ELLIS, 16 ABOUT SPORTS ... "I played soccer this year and I play basketball and volleyball. I'm playing rugby right now. I'll probably participate in track this year." RICK DOWNIE, 12 'Tm a big sports fanatic. I love soccer; I enjoy playing baseball and volleyball. I swim a lot and I like tennis, too." SARAH JURICIC, 15 "Outside of school, I play softball and I like to do a bit of bowling. I might go back and do lO-pin. The team I played with this year- we were the league champions." VANESSA WHITE, 16 "I play basketball, golfing. I'm a member at Gorge Vale. I play road hockey with my friends." JAY CASANOVA, 15 "I've been in baseball. This is my first year and, well, I'm a little paranoid of the ball, but I've been getting over it. I like playing third base, second base and field and I want to try pitching. Once in awhile I play hockey with my friends, and I play basketb\lll with my dad a lot. "TOM M ILLS, 9 "I play golf regularly, three times a week, maybe. I play badmi nton for the school team." PETER GUAN, 17 "I like to jog and run and do track. I like swimming, roller-blading and mountain-biking." VALERIE VOSPER, lB OUR LEISURE TIME ... "I play on a Playstation, that's like Nintendo. I like rollerblading a lot. I go down to Gordon H ead and do tricks and jumps." RICK DOWNIE, 12 "All my girlfriends and I, we love to go to the mall to shop or just look around. Sometimes there are parties we go to and we go to movies a lat." SARAH JURICIC. 15 "I like to go downtown. I'm a downtown person." AARON WICKS, 16
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