Because I collect dragon statues, and I have a lot of little chintzy ones from the dollar store that people see and go, "Oh you collect these, so I bought eight of them for you, they are a set, they cost eight dollars." So I have like these little- she calls them tchotchkys. That 's my sister's word for these things, cheap little pieces of junk that I like putting everywhere.

And there were school-dances of course and tea dances and formal things where you got all dressed up.

Yeah. You-know I was- if you got invited to it you were lucky. And then you could go down to the auditorium where they held the tea dances which were in the afternoons and hopefully somebody would ask you to dance. Stand there like a wallflower.

Speaker: Oh yes. That 's with the poodle-skirt-'n-days and the saddle-shoes and jitterbugging. Oh yeah. I- I never did that much involved but I mean, the- the experts, you went down under the- your- the- your part-- in between your partner's legs and up over their head. Yeah, never got that involved but- at- and that- at school, we had what they called tea dances and I used to- Interviewer: Afternoon-dances, right? Speaker: Afternoon-dances.

I thought "I 'm going to have to go on at least te-- tea dances." So I went to the tea- dance, and the boys were all standing around, the girls were all dancing together

I thought "I 'm going to have to go on at least te-- tea-dances." So I went to the tea dance, and the boys were all standing around, the girls were all dancing together

So I knew, that was so much, and I- I still didn 't know how to get to meet her, and then I heard they were starting tea dances at tea- at four-o 'clock on Friday, after school...

... how I come to move up here was my dad was a teamster. If you don 't know what a teamster is, he has horses and he always figured that one day the city would outlaw horses, so he bought the lot over on Lindsmore where I built my house ...

Well my dad being a teamster and you-know this is in the Depression times, and nineteen-twenty-eight the Union-Station was all rebuilt or something, and in- in doing that, they had to move a lot of earth from one place to another and that, and of course in those days, you done that with a horse and wagon mostly.

Well anyways, we got the goat home ... Well my mother says, "You 're not keeping it here." ... So across the street, my uncle used to be a teamster also, but he had moved to- to a farm in Whitby, but he- his barn was still there, so we take him across the street to put in my Uncle-Billy's barn.

Speaker 1: Because they have issues with everything. And they can't live by the rules, or guidelines that we have lived by. And they think that they're better than us. Speaker 2: They're the Palazzo age that go to Siblings to buy their clothes. Speaker 1: The age where the teeny-boppers go to Silver City or Colossus and they're twelve-years- old, and they come dressed up like these shooters, who look like they're going clubbing and their parents drop them off. And they say, "Bye Mom. Be back in an hour. Yo what's-up?"

Speaker 1: No, you kind-of did cause trouble in grade eight. Speaker 2: Well yeah, but that- Speaker 1: That was during your teenybopper stage. Speaker 2: Hey, don't- don't use my term against me. I was just trying to fit in with a bad crowd.

Speaker: I know, I 'll look young. Yeah. Mm but yeah, that bugs me. These little teenyboppers. Interviewer: Were you once a teenybopper? Speaker: No, I was never a teenybopper. Interviewer: I was never! Speaker: I was never. What? Interviewer: Party! Speaker: No, I was never a teenybopper no. Interviewer: So you said you were a party-animal.

Yes these like little teenybopper thirteen year olds. They like ah they like dress like they 're like sexteen. They dress like they 're like sixteen and they wear these little tops and they go to Yorkdale and they try to pick up older guys and it 's like "Nooo. No Nobody." Yeah, that really bugs me. That bugs me a lot. And they like they pretend they like they 're all that but they 're not. News flash.

It was- oh no it was just a social phenomena at the time. And we 'd hike up our skirts we 'd roll them up. Now I- I just have visions of all these you-know teenyboppers with lumps around their middle from their skirts rolled- but it didn 't feel like it then.

Not all the same time. Like one year we camped East and one we went West, yeah. Um (inc) a girlfriend and I, and we had a Pinto- she had a Pinto. And we tented. And we have tented down to Yellowstone- Park and we 've tented from- over to far as we can go West, and we 've tented to Prince- Edward-Island.

By that time, your grandfather was into mutual funds and we did very well for a while thank-you and then the bottom fell out of the mutual-fund, and the bottom basically fell out of our world too, to a great extent financially. We ended up selling the cottage. And we moved into an apartment.

Interviewer: That's awesome. Wait so, what are some of the better coin machines that you've seen? Speaker: Um, right now, usually they would run, like- I went to the States in, every year like, when I go to, like, Buffalo or Niagara-Falls. Now the cool thing in Niagara-Falls I don't know have you gone to Niagara-Falls lately?

Interviewer: Where'd you guys used to go to? Speaker: Okay. Um, the farthest place I think, my dad drove. 'Cause I guess tickets were expensive. We drove to- once, I remember when I- talking in the States, and then, I think I (inc) Canada where we drove. The States we drove down to Boston, and then went to Las Vegas we drove down there. And we drove back up. To Buffalo, and then to Montreal, and then Ottawa and then go home.

Speaker: Yeah the- the on-- the only thing that's um, challenging to work... um, with math at home when my dad's give- helping me, is he was um, raised using the imperial system of inches, yards. Which is something that I naturally use anyway. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: 'Cause I'm from the States. But- so that makes it harder.