The memories were of Third Avenue S. and the corner of Eatons. Woolworths and Kresge's Department stores, evoking the smell of oiled floor boards, the revolving entry doors, milkshakes in thick glass tumblers, listening to 45's, and watching with fascination the Budgie birds in their cages. This photo for some reason is overwhelming in its nostalgic power. I can't stop looking at it. The slushy street and the simple lamp post decorations, the string of lights and the old city busses that we would ride using paper tokens. Makes me homesick for my childhood home.
One of my sisters gets a daily feed of archived Lethbridge Herald newspaper stories. She sent this link of main street Lethbridge out to us the other day which in turn led to a long string of memories on our family WhatsApp page, with one winter/Christmas memory leading to another. You don't know what you remember until someone else close helps you to bring it back from the files of your mind.
The memories were of Third Avenue S. and the corner of Eatons. Woolworths and Kresge's Department stores, evoking the smell of oiled floor boards, the revolving entry doors, milkshakes in thick glass tumblers, listening to 45's, and watching with fascination the Budgie birds in their cages. This photo for some reason is overwhelming in its nostalgic power. I can't stop looking at it. The slushy street and the simple lamp post decorations, the string of lights and the old city busses that we would ride using paper tokens. Makes me homesick for my childhood home.
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MASAYOSHI Matsushita
12/4/2021 01:35:37 am
I spent my first Christmas alone in Edmonton Alberta in 1977 after I had arrived in Canada from Japan in September and started my graduate study in U of A. That was the most miserable Christmas I ever had in my life. The sight of Edmonton in those days was not so different from the photo you copied that reminded me of my lonely experience I had in Canada. I share your nostalgy very much.
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Dennis deGroot
12/4/2021 10:03:30 am
Yes, it does have a lonely feeling about it doesn't it?
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