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Prohibition was repealed in B.C. in 1921. But booze remained illegal in the U.S. until 1933, which made it a very lucrative export business for enterprising Canadians.
Hence you had a story on an “international convention of bootleggers” in Winnipeg that ran in the May 15, 1922, Vancouver Sun. The “three-day session” attracted “more than 30 members of the ‘profession’ from the principal cities of Canada and the United States.”
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Details were scant the meeting was at an unnamed hotel, by unnamed bootleggers. But an “informant” spilled the beans.
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Some days nothing seems to go right. Other days, somebody gives you a giant poster of Frank Sinatra, and the world is your oyster.
The latter happened last month, when Dal Richards’s widow, Muriel Honey, gave me a poster the local big band legend had received when he had a radio show at AM 600. It’s a classic photo of Frank from the cover of his 1959 album Come Dance With Me. Sinatra is winking at the camera, beckoning a lady to come shake a leg with his finger.
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Today, on the 11th anniversary of 2010, one year later after last year’s festivities for the decennial, and following nearly a year of being under the weather of COVID-19, the idea of the region staging the 26th Winter Games has further evolved into a rare and timely opportunity to provide Metro Vancouver and British Columbia as a whole with a beacon of hope, and a powerful economic jumpstart for the years-long recovery ahead.
Convincing ourselves always comes as the first major hurdle, but what would it take to overcome the ultimate hurdle of actually winning the rights to host the Games, again?