At the Fairview fire hall on Saturdays they would show movies for us kids, Tom Mix, Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan are two I remember. I remember being very exicited when they started Fairview Fish & Game at teh fire hall, us kids got to go to meetings with the adults and be part of the club. So exciting. Stu Beckman was probably the most successful hunter in Fairview, we would go to his place to see, deer, moose, bears when they were harvested.

We kept a pig around 1953, his first house was the dog house,then a rain barrel , he was so intelligent, when my fathers bus arrived ,about a quarter mile from our house, the pig knew he was getting off the bus, this bus went by every hour, but the five-thirty bus drove the pig crazy. When we slaughtered the pig, my father cried. You wouldn't be able to own a pig in Halifax, but we lived in Fairview, just this side of Dutch Village Road, the boundary between the city and county. I always said I had the best of both worlds, the city in my frontyard and the wilderness in my backyard.


Penny candy, actually three for a penny in most cases, green leaves ,licorice, black balls, ju jubes,pop was seven cents and you got 2 cents back for the bottle. If you had 25 cents you could go to the movies, have a pop and a chocolate bar or chips or popcorn. And that was two full length movies. We usually walked three miles to the Armview theatre, and sometimes downtown to the Oxford, the Casino, the Garrick, the Paramount, the Capitol, the Gaiety, the Empire. What was that other one on Gottingen Street?