Browse around Arnold’s Pawn shop and that famous neon Krak-A-Joke sign. My how those old Vancouver memories they restore! The Ritz Hotel and the Cave Theatre Restaurant; the Everly Brothers at Isys Supper Club; all those printers melting letters with that old fashioned font; expressions like...”How are things going...bub”; drooling at Leica and Nikon cameras at Dunne and Rundle down on Granville; those luxury cars at Bowell and Maclean on the corner of Dunsmuir and Burrard.
So many changes, so fast...and all those demolitions...as Durante might have dragged out the final lines...”It’s...hard...I kinda miss KIK COLA and Uncle Ben;s lager Beer”. The old time soul of Vancouver...ah...sure wish it was still here.
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