Christmas In Fort Erie Circa 1958
Christmas In Fort Erie Circa 1958 Before the end of our innocence…Before JFK and RFK and their assassinations . Before the countercultural revolution and the Vietnam war and the great divide that grew up like a jagged wall in society. Before the majority of people who are reading this were even conceived of, there was a world that I was 12 years old in. I didn’t know much about the bigger world back then. None of us did. Oh sure, we learned about it in school …but we didn’t really know about it the way we can know about things today. Mostly what we knew were the guys we hung out with, the hockey and baseball cards we collected and traded, the comic books we read, the Friday night Drive-In movies, the Saturday afternoon skating at the arena, the endless games we played, from hockey to baseball to football and back around again, as the seasons changed and the West End Billiards & Lunch where I learned to play pool and pinball and listened to the elders, the b...