January 17, 2015 – Kirk was pulling apart a vent that is between our garage and our mechanical room to install a small fan to turn the mechanical room into a cooler space for pantry storage. I was inside cleaning the parrot’s cage when Kirk came in and dropped something on the counter and I did a double take!
It was part of a very old newspaper that had been used inside the vent to block cold air I assume. There was apparently also old cardboard and a board across the outside. Probably placed there back when the present day garage was a carport and the wall was an outside wall.
What a fascinating snapshot form the past. It was disintegrating as we gently turned the pages, but it still provided a great deal of entertainment as we looked through it.
Check it out…look at the old advertisements!
Buy a new TV, trade in your old tv, or radio, or piano…or any other appliance you may have and want to dispose of.
And then there is a Woodwards advertisement. I loved that jingle…and everyone in BC knew it “Dollar forty-nine day, Tuesday, dollar-forty-nine day, Woodwards!” Woodwards food floor in Prince George held the best butterhorn danishes I’ve ever had. I miss those.
There were articles on world politics of the day…
And it was interesting to see a news story indicating that the Socreds, the long time juggernauts of politics in BC, would win again. The party was decimated years ago and disintegrated into history after it fell.
The entertainment section held newsbytes on the current bestseller list, and what was playing – in technicolor – at theatres that no longer exist.
It seems that even in 1959 they wanted a new crossing at First Narrows….I wish that story was more legible, but the paper was crumbling as we touched it.
Other stories that seem to be similar stories to those I find in today’s papers:
The flu shot – school staff are urged to get a free shot to reduce absenteeism. And then as now, the success rested on the attitude of the people it was being offered to it. Apparently we haven’t come very far, even with all of the success stories since then.
And dear to my heart, a story about fish prices. Canned fish was going up by six cents a can.
I’d sure like to go back to those prices for salmon…sadly we’ve decimated stocks since 1956…probably because those prices were so low….
What a cool treasure to have found!
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‘ and i lOve the font’ ~_~
We played a game at Lorne’s Christmas party that was “guess the year”. They gave us a bunch of headlines from the local paper and we had to guess when the story was printed. History truly does repeat itself.
This is my date of birth , I was seven then remember loosing a tooth after jumping on my bed and falling into the metal frame