The radio was never on. But after supper with Foster-Hewitt, that was always a ritual.

Speaker: And my wife had run across to do some shopping after supper, and when she come home, she says, "(inc) and pick up the groceries at Miller's," she said, "Because I- I couldn 't ask him to come out on a night like this, it 's raining so much."

So anyways, that was fine and dandy. And at the supper table, my mother just happened to mention that she was down at Luke's-Drugstore and- and Luke has got these here steel plates on his door and everything.

When I come home, you-know, I come in and the first- the first thing I take was this box of the money in it, you-know, under my arm and I go in the house, you- know, and Lorraine has my supper ready and everything. She says, "Well how did the books go?" "Oh," I said, "Not bad."

We weren't inconvenienced too much, no. Luckily I had just had supper. I'd- I'd prepared- you-know, so I was alright (inc). So, I just got- I- I keep some candles- old candles handy, and I- I was all right, yeah.

My grandmother owned Steven's-Café at the corner of Eighth-Street in New-Toronto. Um, it was for the working-class, you had all the factory workers come down for their lunch and suppers and so-on. And my mother worked there, and my aunt- my aunt worked there and so- on. I never did.

So ah, anyway we met- I was- I said "Well I'm taking your sister to Su-- we're going for supper tonight at Swiss-Chalet" and he knew the area 'cause he had worked down here, so he came down- I gave him the address. He came here, but I had to go up there to see my daughter, and I had told her about it on the phone.

And my youngest son knew but my oldest boy didn't know and ah, so we met John at Swiss-Chalet and had a supper. And I looked at my son-in-law, the Chinese one and he ah- I said "Well do you have any doubts that this is my son?" He said "I'm looking at the same face" (laughs). So there's no doubt about it.

... we were driving along the, ah, I-seventy-five one night a- around supper time and it was around a town called Lima-Ohio- it was either Lima-Ohio or Lima-Kentucky I forget which one- anyway, um- and there was this sign outside the Holiday-Inn and it said "Kids under fourteen eat free" so we- immediately Jack (inc) (makes a squealing noise)

They said to have two drinks if you want so- what is wrong? (whispers)- so, um- anyway (laughs), so we ordered these drinks and this food and had this huge meal and then we went, ah, after supper was over- and I was about- I think I was fifteen at the time or sixteen- I must have had my three-sixty-five which they call a G-one now. Yeah. So, ah, I was just- had a learner's-permit to drive which is important to know.

So, ah, I was just- had a learner's-permit to drive which is important to know. So, anyway we- after supper was over us kids went outside and to fiddle around and Jack and Berry stayed at the table- had their coffee and smoke and then they, ah- all of a sudden grammy comes out and she's "Okay get in the car" and I said "Okay" ...

And the- and there was something called um electrical savings, I don't know what they call it, like a blackout. But it was only at- for like a couple of hours. And I think it was at suppertime. 'Cause I 'member, I was- I 'member this because we used to listen to Queen-for-a-Day which was a - one of those quiz programs where was- women would tell- all these women would tell a sob story and then they would vote and whoever won.

They'd meet him every- he got paid every Friday and they meet him every Thursday. They'd meet every Friday for the pay- get the paycheck so they can buy groceries, and Thursday they had oatmeal for supper.

... Linda went down to the submarine shop and bought submarines for supper and we thought- we tried not to open the refrigerator and we have a- only a- we have a small freezer in the basement ...

Speaker: You did get your supper, around three or four-o-clock in the morning. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Three or four in the morning. Charming. Wow. But I guess you got to see some- Speaker: I think maybe we might have gotten a dollar.

No I uh- when I was brought up- I was brought up ah, I didn't- I wasn't allowed to go out- out after supper at night. And my only night out was going to Cubs on Friday night, from seven 'til nine, that was all, and ah, ah, we were- they were- and I had to go to church with my Mom and Dad.

We have chili leftovers, we have the lantu, maksa, and riisiporkkana leftovers (rutabaga, liver, and rice-carrot), we have ham, we have piirakka (Finnish rice pie), we have ah- we can eat that for lunch and get a pizza for supper or-something.

And I do believe, I wasn't going to the hotel at the time, but I'm sure they closed around the supper hour for an hour or two to make sure all the men left to go home and have their supper. Because men would go there after work and stay.

They would stay. So they would close it, so that they would go home for ah dinner. That was another thing. There was- ah everyone had Sunday supper. You'd look out on the street and there was nothing moving at five, six-o-clock because families, that was their family supper.

I mean, it 's a good album, but it didn 't- I didn 't take to it the way that I have the albums in the past and-