KnowItAll wrote:Fire alarms on most corners
I remember one in East Van (near Grandma's house on 47th @ Quebec). Obviously long since gone. (Both).
Air raid drills at school
colored sugar cube vacinations (polio?)
Nope. We didn't have the money for the horses to play polio.
the old fraser street bridges
Nope. But I do remember occasionaly waiting for the old Cambie Bridge swing-span to let a boat through.
Johnny seven OMA
Secret Sam
Nope. Wait - if you can "remember" Secret Sam, you probably didn't have anything to do with it. I am having some fuzzy memories of something "Secret Sam"-ish.
Using roller skate keys
Yes! I remember those bloody awful rickety things. To make it worse, we lived on the side of a hill in North Van, and you could either struggle to go uphill, which would usually result in one or both of them coming loose - or, you could go down the hill, and feel terror every time you rolled over a pebble or grain of sand fearing that it would send you into a tumble resulting in some road rash on your face.