BOOM

<p class=ql-align-justify><span>Everyone has to grow up sometime and everyone has to grow up somewhere and I am delighted that I did it in </span><strong>the Fifties</strong><span> and in </span><strong>the Beach</strong><span>. Keith Black who was born in 1947 provides a sparkling narrative about what it was like to be a child during </span><strong>the 50's in the Beach</strong><span> area of Toronto at a time when the streets teemed with children. </span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span>As we watch the children play and roam far from home we also meet some of the residents shop in some of the long-forgotten stores dine in the restaurants and remember some surprising events such as a blazing gun battle on Queen Street and the year everyone received updated appliances.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span>Even if you are not familiar with the neighbourhood there is something here for you. As Keith says in the Introduction if you remember </span><strong>mello rolls</strong><span> and </span><strong>Murray Westgate</strong><span> it doesn't really matter where you lived. Or </span><strong>Chum Charts</strong><span> or </span><strong>The Yummy Man</strong><span> or </span><strong>Al Boliska</strong><span> or </span><strong>Nash Metropolitans</strong><span> or </span><strong>cap pistols</strong><span> or </span><strong>The Happy Gang</strong><span>. And the list goes on.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>BOOM.</em></strong><span> A book not just for </span><strong>Baby Boomers</strong><span> but also for their kids and grandkids as they try to understand what it was that molded this fascinating but often peculiar generation.</span></p><p></p>