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rlAV. n TT ,Oili...........\^uj Jr: CF TnCSj." bv G, Valson Vie hear a lot about the batterea dollar these aays. Generally, the economists are referrin^^ to the American aollar but we‘re so closely tied to it that it affects us, too, as we all know. The durability of our aollar might even have been suspect had not the government introduced the tranquil loon as in-contrivertible evidence that the demise of the dollar is not at hand. But our cent, ah, that’s a different story. 1 heard just the other aay that it might be on its way out. Promotea to glory, one might say, off to join the sou, farthing, kreutzer ana florin in a numismatic Nirvana - freed at last from the buffets of the external world, uut oefore vie say aaieu, ta ta, aufwieaersehen or ciao to our old friend, l«d like to say *thari< you". Thank you for the innumeraole times when, with a penny in my pocKet, the world was mine. For a penny bought power in the form of a red, licorice whip or braggadocio 'with a black cigar, the 'burning’ end 'lit' with a sprinkling of magenta colourea beads. Candy colours 'wei'e, quite siraply, awful and ihe more awful they were, the more appealing - a fact not overlooked by the candy manufacturers whose peachy coloured peanut shapes, tasting like stale marshmallows, were among their best sellers. A penny bought sophistication in a pack of pseudo 'ciggies', A penny bought a strip of waxy paper dotted with neat rows of yeliow icing buttons or 'dumb bells' - giant gumdrops impaled on the ends of a lethal wooden sicewer, A penny bought ciainchy chicken bones and pik-a-pak gum (a black stick won a pack of five) and chocolate coated teday bears molded of a hard, clear substance somewhat like an ice cube but rosy-red, Teddy bears had the tenacity of crazy glue when it came to stickirq^ zo the teeth. A penny oought walnui-sized jaw oreakers - messy to eat because most of the fun was derived from popping them in an out of one's mouth to check on the current colour, the choices being pearly mauve and grey (nothing edible should ever, ever be grey). There was a cardamom seed at the core of a jaw breaker, not especially^ liked by anyone but somehow regarded as a prize, A penny bought miniature sugary bottles filled with an equally sugary liquid or butterscotch lollipops shaped like golf balls ana if one had a vliole nickel to spend, vjhich was sometimes the case on a Saturaay, the business of selecting the confections was no less serious than a beau choosing an engagement ring. The proprietor seemea to have infinite patience, standing behind zhe counter, small brown bag in hand, keeping track of the purchases ana advising on how much one had left to spend, "I'll have one of those eventually came to an end. Five cent double-header ice cream cones ana nickel horseshoe suckers were just around the corner. It saddens, but doesn't surprise me that they’re saying the old peruiy has to go. I'm just wondering why it took so long? The writing was on the wall fifty years back when St. Clair's upped the price of their toffee suckers to 2^, ^ -K- -X- -X- -K- BLUF-BIRD GONFFCTiOkFRl - Tobaccos, Soft Brinks, Canay, Cold meats, ludU Marine Drive, West Vancouver; we Aim To please ... B0N-T0i\i CONFBCTlGilCini - Large Fresh Stocks - Tobacco, Cigarettes, Canay ALWAlS On HARD, 173U Marine Drive (Two Doors from Theatre); THF RIDGF, Service Station - Confectionery, Hiker ana picnic Supplies FOUNTAIN 3FRV1CF, West 013, 2203 Marine; GAiiDnFR'S GROCERY anc Confectionary, Sherman. And there were others, of course. Can you supply us with the names of one of them.....two of them......three of them?