Interviewer: Oh yeah. When they put the casinos in. Like, there used to be some nice res-- restaurants on the- that main drag there, you know where the- that Haunted place is or what the- Interviewer: Yeah, there was a lovely restaurant there but I think it 's gone now.

And it used to be a small town when they had it called what the Main-Drag.

And they're on the main drag and- Main-Street I should say. And ah not too far from the post-office-

Speaker: Yeah. There- there were many many hotels in Kirkland around that time, I remember. Interviewer: Oh there had to be at least fifteen, yeah. On the main drag alone, there were f-- six or seven.

There were about ten on- just on the main drag.

They amalgamated and- and where the bank was is Kirkland-Pharmacy is now. On the main drag.

Speaker: And then there's also one down on Government-Road, the main drag, it's um- Speaker: Main drag? Interviewer: Yeah, the main- (laughs) the main road in town. Speaker: So you use 'drag' for 'road'? Interviewer: Yeah (laughs). Speaker: Awesome. Interviewer: (laughs). Speaker: (inc) Interviewer: Yeah, the main drag and the Mile-of-Gold. Speaker: Oh. Interviewer: Because you-know, they said that when they paved that road, they used the wrong rock pile, so there's gold in it, apparently. That's- that's the rumour (laughs). Speaker: Yay. Interviewer: Anyway, so yeah there's um there's a gym on the main drag (laughs) um and it's more intense I-guess, it's- it's more money to go to it, and you get a key so you can go twenty-four-seven and yeah, there's probably better equipment there.

But even in the sixties, we had lots of stores on our main drag, our main downtown street.

Yeah there was like a dozen on the main drag alone and then there was like the Teck-Hotel, Capital-Arms on the side-streets.

And that's (inc) and that's up the hill but- oh yeah, that's the- the main drag.