All of North America was still watching ARCHIE BUNKER.
In the days when Vancouver still had a TOWN FOOL.
There was plenty of storage and parking for my V-8 CLUNKER.
Even a games room and an outdoor POOL,
around 1966, feeling like a billionaire on the fifteenth FLOOR,
living in a tower off Alberni and BUTE.
Wow, what a bird’s eye view of Stanley Park and the SHORE.
Rent was around one hundred fifty per month and that seemed like a lot of LOOT.
Later I found out that way down below Howard Hughes had a nice place at the BAYSHORE.
Just a little more spacious than MINE.
The secret was kept hush, hush, until some sharp reporter made that big SCORE.
For the city, what a publicity scoop, for the press, what a HEADLINE!
Good old CBUT had its TV studios half a block AWAY.
There were local big names like Ted Reynolds, Bill Good Sr., and shows like ALMANAC.
Those times help reprise many a special DAY.
They take us nostalgically way BACK.
Like the C.B.C. radio studios at the HOTEL VAN.
Do you recall Vic Waters on C.J.O.R.,
broadcasting from the basement of the Grosvenor Hotel, man oh man, oh MAN!
Today you can walk back to so many Vancouver places, including where my tower once WAS.
They’re just not there ANYMORE.