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President's Message - cont'd. We have an excellent speaker for our September 23'’'^ meeting. Lisa Smedmen has agreed to present information on her book Stories of a City - A History of Vancouver Neighbourhoods and the People who built them. Her efforts in this book are similar to what we have been preparing, therefore it is valuable to see what she has found and how she has presented the material. Jim Carter. MMMM Down Memory Lane! This article appeared in the January 1988 Historionics, by G. Wiison. "I'll have one of those ...... and two of those ... and three of those". We hear a lot about the battered dollar these days. Generally, the economists are referring to the American dollar but we are so closely tied to it that it affects us too, as we all know. The durability of our dollar might even have been suspect had not the Government introduced the tranquil loon as incontrovertible evidence that the demise of the dollar is not at hand. But our cent, ah, that is a different story. I heard just the other day that it might be on Its way out. Promoted to glory, one might say, off to join the sou, farthing, Kreutzer and florin in a numismatic Nirvana - freed at last from the buffets of the external world. But before we say adieu, ta ta, aufwiedersehen or ciao to our old friend, rd like to say "thank you". Thank you for the innumerable times when, with a penny in my pocket, the world was mine. For the penny bought power in the form of a red liquorice whip or braggadocio with a black cigar, the 'burning' end 'lit' with a sparkling of magenta coloured beads. Candy colours were, quite simply, awful and the more awful they were, the more appealing - a fact not overlooked by the candy manufacturers whose peachy coloured peanut shapes, tasting like stale marshmellows, were among their best sellers. A penny bought sophistication in a pack of pseudo Cont'd. next column. Down Memory Lanei - cont'd. 'ciggies'. A penny bought a strip of waxy paper dotted with neat rows of yellow icing buttons or 'dumb bells' - giant gumdrops impaled on the end of a lethal wooden skewer. A penny bought crunchy chicken bones and pik-a-pak gum (a black stick won a pack of five) and chocolate coated teddy 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 sticking to the teeth. A penny bought walnut-sized jaw breakers messy to eat because most of the fun was derived from popping them in and 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 and if one had a whole nickel to spend, which was sometimes the case on a Saturday, the business of selecting the confections was no less serious than a beau choosing an engagement ring. The proprietor seemed to have infinite patience, standing behind the counter, small brown bag in hand, keeping track of the purchases and 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 and nickel horseshoe suckers were just around the corner. It saddens, but does not surprise me that they are saying the old penny has to go. I am 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 24:. Blue-Bird Confectionery - Tobaccos, Soft Drinks, Candy, Cold Meats, 1484 Marine Drive, West Vancouver-We Aim To Please.... Bon-Ton Confectionery - Large Fresh Stocks-Tobacco, Cigarettes, Cont'd. on page five. Paae 3