Ok, how about bringing in groceries on Saturday afternoon when the Bugs Bunny Hour was on. The house would get cold fast and I could smell the paper bags mixed with cold weather mixed with fresh veggies. Crisp McIntosh apples in those long cardboard baskets with a paper or cheap light wood handle and piece of cardboard on top to cover the apples.
Gillan
Does anyone recall going as a family to the theatre next to the Calgary Tower to see Fiddler on the Roof?
Gillan
Fiddler on the roof was great, I had to wait a few years to see the "Dream" scene. I had to take Marsh out so he would not get scared.
Monte
The older kids went over to a member's house on 8th Avenue near Edmonton Trail on a Sunday evening I think to watch 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.
Watching Red Skelton, Rin Tin Tin, The Beatles cartoon series, Batman and Robin, Superman in black and white, that show about the Cavalry army traitor who got stripped of his emblems and had his sword broken.
Gillan
I remember a family tradition of mocking the commercial about the doctor who is with a patient and then comes out of the patient's room and addresses the camera as he holds a clip board and combs his other hand through his hair with a heavy sigh and says, "I try to do my job but I can't without your help". Marji was particularly good at capturing the campiness of it.
Gillan
Another commercial we all mocked for a local restaurant named ??? where the mom comes out of the kitchen at the end of the commercial and says, "Eat your pie son."
Gillan
Who remembers Bryan Sydorsky doing the cheeseiest commercials by jumping on a pile of tires? He was the original Brick Store on the corner of 16th Avenue and Centre. Somehow this also brings to mind a guy named Petrasuk who ran for Provincial election and had signs up all over the community. He wasn't our favourite so we spoke his name as Pet ra suck and thought we were very clever.
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