Summer of 1964

I had a paper route delivering the Southside Mirror, and flyers from the Hudson Bay, and Eatons the to big department stores in Calgary. I had 235 houses, apartments, and businesses to deliver them to one of my route and that ran from 18th St S.W. to 24th St S.W. (now Crowchild Trail) on 32nd and 33rd Avenues. I did this every Thursday through junior high school, and on other evenings when there were flyers to deliver. I was paid a penny apiece for every thing I delivered. Me and a friend of mine went around the businesses on 33rd Ave. to solicit work. We delivered fliers for the local delicatessen, and a furrier, to the districts of Bankview, South Calgary, and Altadore 10,000 in total. I saved every penny I made, and my father said he would double every cent I made. So at the and of grade 9 I had $500 enough to buy a motorbike. We went to Bow Cycle out in the district of Bowness and I purchased a brand-new Honda 90, black in color. This was a dream come true for me; it gave me the freedom of mobility, to go and discoverer parts of the city that I had never seen before. I drove on the new Blackfoot Trail in S.E. Calgary over the Alyth overpass that ran over the CPR train yard. I returned and took the exit on Portland Street that went through the industrial district of Bonniebrook. I crossed the Bow River on the silver. Bonniebrook Bridge that took me to Ogden Road that ran along the Imperial Oil Refinery. Travel through Ogden on 24th St, and ended up a the Canadian Industry Limited's explosive plant, where they made dynamite (this is now the district of Douglasdale) the plant was closed in 1975 after an explosion in the mixing room killed four employees.