So you-know he did that and ah he was- he was just a- my old man was ah- ah- ah jack-of-all-trades master-of-none. Right? He could b-- he used to do ama-- he- he 'd do anything man.

Both. You know what I found? Most- most of the ah- the men from the fifties are an Archie-Bunker-type. They were assholes. Ah men were king and if "Yeah, the old man said it", that 's the way it was.

Well that's one of them anyway. Um I- and another thing is too like a lo-- ah some kids now they call their parents the old man or- or a- a language like that you-know, "The old that" or- or -something-like-that I notice that like you-know you wouldn't say that about your dad or-something-like-that.

And ah my father, and he was an alchy too. And ah they were hustling and bustling around the house, the old man says "Let's go for a drink." So we went over Ma-and-Pa-Bruno's and he made the mistake of telling Ma and Pa that I was getting married the next day.

And he had trouble with his brother. There were in partners. The old man- the old man didn't have any money and his brother was taking trips to Greece. So the old man got out of it and come up here and open it up.

Interviewer: And he wasn't paying my father for what- for the bill and the business he got from him. Speaker: That's the old man on the bottom. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: With the cue-stick- he liked to play pool.

Interviewer: Now why did your family come to K-L? Speaker: Well the town was booming. Interviewer: Ah yes. Speaker: And the old man was a carpenter. So things were going here pretty good.

Interviewer: She worked in the restaurant that was in North-Bay but not in Kirkland-Lake 'cause she wasn't old enough. Speaker: The old man had a motel in North-Bay with a restaurant in it.

Mum was from Almonte and the old man was from up the Gatineau there above Ottawa in Quebec.

Speaker: Yeah like there were (inc). They're- they're supposed to tear that down. And her dad's whole restaurant- it's all in one building. Interviewer: We had a good business there. Speaker: But the old man practically lives there twenty-four hours a day.

The one that didn't have the money those who were the workers. The one who had the money, they were- they're going to work. Oh man, the old man didn't give me money if I wanted.

I'm not sure of that but I have heard Harry-James, say he's one old timer, he said that he understood that they came with the United-Empire-Loyalists, but I couldn't be sure of that.

But everybody blended in pretty well considering it was real mix of the old timers and a lot of young people who were- who were coming into the business th-- it'd be right around that time because that was an explosion of young teachers um from about ah nineteen-sixty-six right on through to seventy-one seventy-two and just new teachers coming in- in droves.

I played ah- one wint-- a couple of winters I played old timers hockey. Until she got- she wouldn't come watch me no more.

It is for the younger people, like I said, for the people above like nineteen and twenty, all there is- is baseball and like old timers hockey type-thing but there's no like basketball, volleyball.

As- after the d-- like you would dance and then at midnight there would be sandwiches and all the sweets you would want, pickles. Every meal in the county pretty well- the old timers had pickles at every meal. You always had a pickle with meal.

Whether it's true or not, I don't know. But that's what the old timers used to say. But you never went- you never had a meal that you didn't have pickles. There was always pickles.

You-know, that was- you-know- my c-- 'cause when my sister made Christmas cakes the- my son-in-law says "Boy, this is really good." And- but the old timers made Christmas cake. The old timers did down peaches and pears and tomatoes.

Well, you-know the old timers used to say though Garrett, that if you- you can kill anything if you hit them in the right spot with a twenty-two.

People who had been there literally for- for decades um wouldn't ever go anywhere else, um were kind-of the old-guard and they kind-of took pride in the way things went and- and ah kind-of instructed us rookies on the traditions of the school and how things should go.