<div dir='auto'>Funny how the memory works...<div dir="auto">I remember life
before TV, before dishwashers, before music tapes, before gas lawn
mowers, but I cannot remember life before pizza.</div></div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec. 24, 2021 12:20 a.m.,
John Wellar <jwellaroz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:<br type="attribution"
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solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>G'day all <div dir="auto"><br
/></div><div dir="auto">Yes these bring back memories. </div>Giuseppe’s Pizza
is one. I was just starting my summer job in 1969 as an apprentice sprinkler
fitter (as on fire protection) We had to put a system in this new restaurant
that served Pizza, whatever that was. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div
dir="auto">The painter was painting the walls black with orange swirls and
other crazy colours. In the kitchen we had to put special sprinkler heads that
went off at 350f instead of the normal 165f. We couldn't understand how
you had an oven that hot a blast going to the ceiling.</div><div dir="auto"><br
/></div><div dir="auto">Fortunately we were there when they tested the ovens
with real pizza. Was totally strange food but very enjoyable.</div><div
dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">It was the start of the beatnik
era.</div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">Funny how we remember
things like that. </div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto">YITBOS
</div><div dir="auto">John Wellar <br /><br /><div dir="auto"
class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, 10:36 am Willow Arune,
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solid;padding-left:1ex"><p style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )">Random thoughts</p><p
style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )" dir="auto">Changes in food? Back in the day,
spaghetti was rare and there were few ethnic - if any - restaurants. Chinese,
yes, but not Thai, Korean, Japanese, etc. fFew French in the west. German, then
and now rare (any in Red Deer?). As I recall, Pizza arrived in the late sixties
in Edmonton with Giuseppe’s near the high level bridge. Other Italian, a few.
Greek? None. East Indian and others, no a one. Nor would you find any fixings
in grocery stores. There was a big pizza place in a tall apartment near the U
of A. In rural areas, you may have hotel coffee shops, with coffee for $.05 or
.10, and the standard pop was a dime but in small bottles. No Macdonalds! The
horrors of that building - what was it- that occupied the street near the old
library in my last years. Oh yes, something truly lost. GRASS! The square in
front of the Arts Building and Con Hall.</p><p style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )">I
could never understand why the Delta Sig cook never added milk or butter to
mashed potatoes or how Bryan could eat cold meat that was mouldy! We were the
front line for police raids due to our beer machine. (How in heaven’s sweet
name did we have live bands complete with go-go dancers in that basement?). The
pickup for very mild porn in the parking lot of Bonnie Doon shopping centre,
rear window down for the pass. And the Corner Cafe on the corner near the old
library. U of A radio in the old sub building. And the machine only dining in
the old Library basement. The Cameron made due with the Hot Caf next door.
</p><p style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )">But old favourites have disappeared.
Mushrooms and bacon on toast was always in the menu. Merritt BC was the only
place that prepared that. Flapper pie! </p><p style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )"
dir="auto">Back then, private clubs had little boxes under the tables for
liquor. Restaurants could not serve booze but members could bring their own.
And charge a slight fee. Hmmm. Seven Seas, Sahara, the old Mac Hotel. Can’t
remember any others. No food courts, of course. Odd drive ins - Burger Baron,
the first Burger King (local). Ice cream at NADP, with a bottle on top on Whyte
Avenue. The Purple Cow on the North Side. </p><p style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )"
dir="auto">And milk delivery to your door by a horse drawn wagon!</p><p
style="color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )" dir="auto">A is
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