ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Bump Murphy
From: CRBC

Comments:
I have a darn good recall of Shilo in my day from very early fifties to say 1960. ...The maps I dig up on line and some of which are maps posted by Shilo brats do not reflect my mental images of some of my shortcuts across camp. Would any 'brat' have a map of Shilo proper for circa mid- fifties? For example: The original canteen/ the PX(Maple Leaf Services). I can trace my exact route across camp from Ubique and across Royal and across the field where the weather station was located and on to the ' H' huts there. The old Theater and the Sgt's mess and so on. Then over to the Motor Pool. There were two newer barrack blocks there. Two story and made out of brick I believe. The Admin bldg or HQ was up from the Motor Pool shop and I traversed a alley way between them and over and up to get to Canteen and Spots Palace. The snow fences and drifts certainly were a chore mid- winter. Chuckle. My feet and hands and face(lips) would freeze so bad I could not walk or talk by time I got home. I was in no good condition to help my brothers or friends pry their tongues off the steel posts or mail slots in the doors. Anyone remember those times. ....We spent many hours in summer and winter at the golf course and the dump of course. Many hous playing too close to the tank course and the indoor firing range collecting brass casings. Of course both were off limits. Huh! Duh! What did we know. We were just dumb kids.
We were quite a ' rat brat pack' occupying ourselves in all of the Shilo frontiers. .. We were always able to outrun or dodge the ' meatheads' . ... In reality I am sure they let us get away with many shenanigans.
Later. .......bump

Added: April 2, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Doug Jordan

Comments:
M. Balitsky - That is sad. He was a good guy. My favorite memory is not from school but rather teaching him and other seniors how to race walk. That must have been at least 20 years ago. I didn't realize he was that old - he certainly looked younger than he must have been when last I saw him walking up a storm.

Added: March 30, 2016

Submitted by
Name: ShiloBrats
E-mail: shilobrats@shaw.ca

Comments:
We have just learned that beloved Shilo teacher Mr. Balitsky passed away Easter morning at 90 + years. A full obituary has not been posted yet, and will appear here when available.
Tell us your memories of Mr. Balitsky, 20+ years at PEHS.

Added: March 30, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Brian Titus
From: Alberta
E-mail: betitus@xplornet.ca

Comments:
We lived at 11 Quebec 54-60 and then 23 Ubique 60-63. Remember when we had a colour tv in 1954. It was a green or red screen that fit the tv and - voila - colour tv

Added: March 27, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Doug Jordan

Comments:
We also got our first TV in the mid 50's (Sylvania TV, with halo light, the best in TV, Sylvania that's right). I remember waiting for Saturday (I think) when wrestling was big. I only remember 2 names, Hard Boiled Haggerty and Killer Kowalski. The best wrestling was the little people ("midgits" back then). I seem to recall one named Ski lo lo, or something along those lines and Little Beaver who I think wrestled near the end of the 50's. Good times. Good memories.

Added: March 26, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Ian Malcolm
From: Ottawa
E-mail: jmalcolm99@gmail.com

Comments:
I enjoy these posts about "culture" in the early days of TV. Shows were much more naive and simpler then and focused on "family" themes such as parental discipline (Father Knows Best), family situations (My Three Sons) and good old fashioned heroes (The Lone Ranger). I did not get to Shilo until the mid sixties but offerings had not changed that much. My enduring memory is watching the Stanley Cup playoffs (4 teams only) which were always shown earlier in French (when Montreal played) and then CBC would start coverage around the second period. My Dad's solution was to put the portable radio in front of the TV and we would listen to the English radio broadcast with the TV sound off. The fact that the radio announcer sometimes described a different game than the action on TV was only secondary as we got to watch Les Canadiens once again defeat that team in blue. Cheers!

Added: March 26, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Bump

Comments:
Hi Alf,
Yes that test pattern. Arggg! How many hours did we look,at,that although when we first got our tv we sat riveted to it waiting for something. Off at around 9 or 10 pm and on around 11 am or something. ....In early fifties we watched 'Tugboat Annie and ' Mister Peepers' and ' Life of Riley'. Lots of news programs and documentaries for sure. The old thirties movies were very common such as ' Charlie Chan' 'The Thin Man' 'The Saint' 'Bulldog Drummomd'. 'The Bowery Boys'.
There was a friend of my Dad and his PMQ was across the field from our back door over on Stonehenge and he repaired TV sets. Ours was a regular customer. Mostly the 'tubes'. Remember those things.

Added: March 26, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Bill Gillespie
From: AB
E-mail: bgillespie@shaw.ca

Comments:
The posts regarding early tv shows triggers memories from the 50's. I think our first tv arrived in '55 or '56 when we were stationed in NB when my dad in the Engineers was helping build CFB Gagetown.

The first image that I recall viewing was some CBC documentary with a guy paddling a canoe, then Howdy Dowdy and also the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans show (with their sidekick Pat Brady in his jeep named "Nellie Belle"

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Prior to our tv arrival, I used to visit our next door neighbour to watch Buck Rodgers.

Due to the limited CBC viewing schedule-the test pattern with the Indian Chief Head was probably the predominant image for years!

Added: March 25, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Turk
From: Victoria
E-mail: mturk204@shaw.ca

Comments:
Every one enjoy the weekend and hunt for lots of treats.
Be safe.
Cheers
Turk

Added: March 24, 2016

Submitted by
Name: alf

Comments:
Oops! Sorry Bump....see you already mentioned I Love Lucy. Not only losing my hearing but now my sight too.

Added: March 24, 2016