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Nicholas Wind's avatar

Ya the 50s and 60s was a different world here in CHINADA.

My family on both sides came from Holland in the early 50s and 60s.

My Dad and 6 uncles and two aunts were GM workers in Oshawa Ontario and all fed their families on one income.

I'm from 7 boys and feeding the family was easy because most of us had gardens.

Big ones since we are Dutch and pretty good at that.

I fell in love with hockey and played for decades.

I put the blades on at 4 years old in 1960 and lived on the pond for two decades plus I played the best of the best for 10 years and played in 4 Ontario championships and a silver stick in 1973 at 16.We won 3.

Same league as my idle Bobby Orr.

So we watched Leafs Habs starting back in 1958 when if you remember Ely the game started on TV in the second period.

They started showing the whole game in early 60s.

Hockey night in Canada.

In those days there was always folks outside being active in something.

Opposite of now with never seeing children play outside.

I'm 10 years your junior.

You were a lean machine Ely in your youth.

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Abigail Starke's avatar

Agree with all that you said. Grateful for my parents who were the same as you. They protected us from what we didn’t need to know and enabled us to be successful. They are still happily married together.

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