Just to say "Hi." Steal- steal some beer from your old man and awake for the whole night.

No. I didn 't 'cause I know if I ever got brought home by the cop my old man would hoof me in the ass.

I-mean there was a lot of you-know don 't forget you-know back then forty-five years ago you had a lot of people like people that came over from other countries and-stuff. You-know referred as honkies back in those days right? So you-know they 'd be had a hard time now like Italians and you-know the Maltese and-whatever. They came here they would al-- they were like you-know "They 're all honkies". I mean my father you-know how many times my father 's thrown guy- he 'd throw a guy- guy from Shell-Home- Comfort about your size guy you-know? He threw him out on his head he called him- my- my old man a honkie right?

But yeah they got to come from something that is just a- just a disaster in their life because that disaster- I 've never had a disaster in my life. Everything 's been easy for me. Compared to my old man? I don 't have bombs dropping on my head. Do-you-know-what-I-mean? I never had three kids. I didn 't have to work go w-- welding to feed- no I didn 't have that.

So you-know he did that and ah he was- he was just a- my old man was ah- ah- ah jack-of-all-trades master-of-none. Right? He could b-- he used to do ama-- he- he 'd do anything man.

Both. You know what I found? Most- most of the ah- the men from the fifties are an Archie-Bunker-type. They were assholes. Ah men were king and if "Yeah, the old man said it", that 's the way it was.

Well that's one of them anyway. Um I- and another thing is too like a lo-- ah some kids now they call their parents the old man or- or a- a language like that you-know, "The old that" or- or -something-like-that I notice that like you-know you wouldn't say that about your dad or-something-like-that.

And ah my father, and he was an alchy too. And ah they were hustling and bustling around the house, the old man says "Let's go for a drink." So we went over Ma-and-Pa-Bruno's and he made the mistake of telling Ma and Pa that I was getting married the next day.

And he had trouble with his brother. There were in partners. The old man- the old man didn't have any money and his brother was taking trips to Greece. So the old man got out of it and come up here and open it up.

Interviewer: And he wasn't paying my father for what- for the bill and the business he got from him. Speaker: That's the old man on the bottom. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: With the cue-stick- he liked to play pool.

Interviewer: Now why did your family come to K-L? Speaker: Well the town was booming. Interviewer: Ah yes. Speaker: And the old man was a carpenter. So things were going here pretty good.

Interviewer: She worked in the restaurant that was in North-Bay but not in Kirkland-Lake 'cause she wasn't old enough. Speaker: The old man had a motel in North-Bay with a restaurant in it.

Mum was from Almonte and the old man was from up the Gatineau there above Ottawa in Quebec.

Speaker: Yeah like there were (inc). They're- they're supposed to tear that down. And her dad's whole restaurant- it's all in one building. Interviewer: We had a good business there. Speaker: But the old man practically lives there twenty-four hours a day.

The one that didn't have the money those who were the workers. The one who had the money, they were- they're going to work. Oh man, the old man didn't give me money if I wanted.