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John Byrne
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| Posted: 26 May 2024 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | 1
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Under the heading of Time Passes…My father was a Buddhist, as many of you know. Realized just now that assuming he joined the right club, there’s a thirteen year old out there somewhere carrying around my father’s atman!
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Andrew Bitner
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| Posted: 27 May 2024 at 2:21pm | IP Logged | 2
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I like that idea--though if it were my father, they would be 36
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Steve Coates
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| Posted: 27 May 2024 at 2:49pm | IP Logged | 3
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John, Many I share a picture of your father? It is a group photo during his time at the City of Calgary.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 27 May 2024 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | 4
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Sure
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Steve Coates
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Staff of the City Clerk's Department, City of Calgary, (1980).
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 27 May 2024 at 10:23pm | IP Logged | 6
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Ah, yes. I posted that a few years back along with an equivalent shot of the City Clerk and his staff from 1912.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 18 July 2024 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | 7
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We drifted past what would have been my father’s 104th birthday on the 15th. Hard to imagine 1920 being more than a century ago. I mean, there were cars and planes and movies and radios and telephones!!I think I mentioned before that as he rolled into his nineties I challenged him to live to be 99. That way he would have been born in 1920 and checked out in 2019. Only one chance per century to do that.
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Michael Penn
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It's fascinating to watch movies or other film footage from the 1920s and think about the ways in which our lives today were not astonishingly dissimilar to then.
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John Byrne
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Walking around in my street clothes, it I accidentally stepped thru a time portal and found myself in 1920 I would not raise too many eyebrows. But that would change more and more with each century I went back.
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Michael Penn
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Because my parents came from villages that were essentially unchanged from the middle ages and they and their parents luckily survived WW2, I got to go back to that surviving old world -- no electricity, no phones, no plumbing, hardly anything modern -- so it was kind of a "time travel" experience for me every summer. On the mountain road way down at the bottom of the village, I would call out in a loud echo to my grandmother to bring down the donkey to carry up our luggage. It was actually kind of sad when the first electric lines to homes were established in 1975!
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John Byrne
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Fifteen years (!!!) slipped past me.
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Craig Earl
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My granddad passed away 38 years ago and yet his physical appearance and personality are still so fresh in my mind today (he was the spitting image of Vincent Price and fought in Africa for Monty in WWII).
There's something something special about guys from that era...
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