I had a paper route delivering the Star Weekly a newsmagazine published in Toronto that came out on Mondays, I had about 40 customers scattered around South Calgary, so there was a lot of walking involved, and I would have to go back and collect money at times, I was paid five cents a copy so made about two dollars a week, in Grade 7 I got a carrier route delivering The Southside Mirror, and flyers from the Hudson Bay, Woodwards and Eatons to big department stores in Calgary. I had 285 houses, apartments, and businesses to deliver them to on my route and that ran from 18th St S.W. to 24th St S.W. (now Crowchild Trail) on 32nd and 33rd Avenues. I delivered the Mirror on Thursdays, and the other Flyers on different days of the week, the South Side Mirror was small about 30 pages, and would carry them canvas bag. I would carry half of them to do 32nd Ave. with that done I would carry the rest to do 33rd Ave. The Flyers from The Bay, and Eatons were larger and heavier and I required two canvas paper bags to carry them, Woodwards flyers came out once a month on Tuesdays when they had their $1.49 Days sales, with the Mirror, and flyers. I was paid a penny apiece and was able to earn about $10 a week. I did this through junior high school, and it was good exercise, it could be a little brutal through the winter when there was lots of snow. . in Grade 8 some of the local businesses. I delivered to on 33rd Avenue asked me if I would be interested them delivering their flyers around the districts, being enterprising me and a friend of mine agreed to do it and split the money . We delivered fliers for Fechs a European delicatessen, and a furrier Jon Vozniuk who lived on 33rd Avenue and had his business about a block away East of 21st Street. We delivered to the districts of Bankview, South Calgary, and Altadore 10,000 in total, and made $50 each, it was in the summer and the Flyers were just one or two pages although it involved a lot of walking the renumeration was worth it. I saved VA penny I made, and my father said he would double every cent I made. So at the and of grade 9 I had $500 enough to buy a motorscooter, some of my older friends had Italian Vespas that were 125 cc. so I was inclined to buy one of them, Simpson Sears, had a their own brand made by Vespa so I was thinking of one of them. In junior high school. When we were young on weekends we used to go down to Kaynes motorcycle shop located in downtown Calgary at 515 4th Street, S.E. In an old wooden structure and drool over the Triumph’s, BSA’s, Norton’s the English motorcycles, and of course the Harley-Davidson’s these were big bikes and you had to be 16 to operate one, but 14 to 16-year-olds could drive scooters, or small motorcycles under 125 cc’s. My mother had seen an advertisement in the paper, so my father and I went to Bow Cycle out in the district of Bowness they were selling Hondas, I was familiar with the 50 cc Honda Cub, a small scooter, but they had come out with some larger bikes and we purchased a brand-new Honda 90, black in color. This was a dream come true for me, and I never regretted it; there were no helmet laws, and it gave me the freedom of mobility, to go and discoverer parts of the city that I had never seen before. In our old house the basement was made of wooden planks, they had rotted away, so my dad made up the crib using CPR boxcar lumber, on Saturdays I would go with him we thrown under a railway trestle, and turned south before another trestle, I really wanted to see what was East of the second wooden trestle. We turned right and headed south to the Standard General gravel pit there dad bought a bag of cement, and a yard of gravel and sand that was put into the trunk of our 1947 Dodge. I was able to find out what was behind the second wooden trestle on the other side was the Government Elevators, a sewage plant, driving north I came to Ogden Road, and turned and went southward over the Silver Bridge across the Bow River, the road ran along hedges of the Imperial oil refinery, at 50th Ave. to the east and opening CPR and CNR railway tracks to the district Valleyfield, continuing on I arrived in Ogden, there was a 3 story brick building that was the single man’s hostile. I came do a junction to the left was 26th Street and 24th St. SE. I chose 24 Street along side a park and had a concrete building that was demolished, and I thought to myself this must be a real tough district I Drove on the new Blackfoot Trail in S.E. Calgary over the Alyth overpass that ran over the CPR train yard. I returned and took the exit on Portland Street that went through the industrial district of Bonnybrook. I crossed the Bow River on the silver. Bonnybrook Bridge that took me to Ogden Road that ran along the Imperial Oil Refinery. At 50th Ave. there was a road that went over the CPR, and CNR railway tracks to the district of Valley Field, I went through Ogden on 24th St, and ended up a the Canadian Industry Limited’s explosive plant, where they made dynamite (this is now the district of Douglasdale) the plant was closed in 1975 after an explosion in the mixing room killed four. employees.