Presented here is a gallery of images intended to function as an ancillary to McCorry's Memoirs Era 2. The era of my life in which I was an inhabitant of the village of Douglastown along the Miramichi River in New Brunswick, Canada.

First cluster of images showing New Brunswick's Miramichi region as it was when I lived there, and as it was through my second life era (1972-7).

First cluster of images shows New Brunswick's Highway 11, which goes north from Moncton to Tracadie, and passes through the Miramichi region beginning with Chatham (both Canadian Forces Base (C.F.B.) Chatham and Chatham town). In the 1970s, Highway 11 skirted one of the perimeters (the eastern one) of C.F.B. Chatham, passed the Portage Restaurant, and then met the Chatham town limits and a welcome sign, before yielding one offshoot, that became Chatham's King Street passing through residential, hotel, administrative, and business parts of Chatham.

My father worked in C.F.B. Chatham, and we sometimes shopped there at a CANEX store. I also spent some time at a C.F.B. Chatham cafeteria and a library. And in spring of 1975, I accompanied my father to his workplace for an hour or so before he brought me back to our village of Douglastown and deposited me at the entry to the yard of my school. And I was making use of a typewriter at my father's workplace to do a book version of cartoon "Hyde and Go Tweet". There was also a dump some distance up Highway 11 toward Moncton, and I sometimes accompanied my father there, with us returning home via Highway 11, passing C.F.B. Chatham en route.

Top image in the image cluster has a fencing along the C.F.B. Chatham perimeter on Highway 11's left side, and on the highway's right side, beyond a railway crossing of the highway, the Portage Restaurant. The Portage's sign is in the distance, as are those of a Texaco gasoline station and restaurant on left side of road and an Esso gasoline station on road's right side (past the Portage).

Centre image of the image cluster shows the signs to Portage, Texaco, and Esso at closer range, making them more clearly visible. Far in the distance, beyond the Texaco, is an Irving gasoline station on road's left side. So, a car's driver had three gasoline stations from which to choose, to fill his or her car's petroleum tank. I do not recall if my father was partial to any one of those gasoline stations. Between the Texaco and the Irving was a road, perpendicular to the highway and going left into C.F.B. Chatham, leading promptly to a baseball field visited one Sunday afternoon by my father and I, in summer of, I think, 1975 (I became bored with the baseball game that we were watching and went to a nearby park bench and pretended to be showing an episode of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner). A short distance from there, along same road, there was a recreation building whose swimming pool had me in mortal danger, on the second Saturday of 1975's February (day of "The Hasty Hare", "Beep Prepared", "Claws For Alarm", "Roman Legion-Hare", "Home, Tweet Home", "Terrier Stricken", and "Sugar and Spies" on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on CBC Television and northern New Brunswick's CKCD).

The Portage was one of the Miramichi region restaurants to receive McCorry family patronage. While there, I once used silverware to perform the music of the Pink Panther. "Ting-ting, ting-ting, ting-ting, ta, ting-ting..."

In bottom image in the image cluster, Highway 11, having passed the three aforementioned gasoline stations, approaches the welcome sign to Chatham on right side of road. On left side of road is a small string of mobile homes and, not to be pushed out of contention by its three rivals, a Gulf gasoline station. So, make that four gasoline stations on the stretch of Highway 11 nearing Chatham. The King Street offshoot is somewhat near image centre. Highway 11 then veers to the left as it moves toward the Chatham Bridge, which will be visible in next cluster of images.

Second cluster of images.

Top image in second image cluster shows Highway 11 passing, on its left, a shopping centre consisting of grocery store Sobeys and department store Zellers. It was there where I, circa 1975, bought three-packs of Gold Key comic books with such characters as the Pink Panther, Underdog, and Hewey, Dewey, and Louie. And where I, in 1977, found and purchased Space: 1999 colouring books and Professor Bergman doll, and a battery-operated Star Trek phaser. The Skillet restaurant inside Zellers was one of my favourite places at which to eat. On right side of road was the Town of Chatham water tower.

In second, middle image of image cluster two, Highway 11 reaches the Chatham Bridge. There is an option of turning right onto Chatham's Church Street permitting entry into Chatham's central core. Going straight ahead and crossing the Chatham Bridge brings one to Douglastown, my home village from 1972 to 1977. Third and bottom image in second image cluster shows one descending the Chatham Bridge on the Douglastown side of it.

Third image cluster.

Top image of image cluster three has one coming off of the Chatham Bridge and immediately being prompted with signs to turn right to go to Fredericton, Neguac, Newcastle, and Tracadie. Highway 11 would then do a partial loop and meet King George Highway, the main road of the village of Douglastown. Left turn there at that meeting of roads is a turn onto the route toward Neguac and Tracadie, Francophone communities on New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula several dozens of miles distant. And a right turn will have one going through Douglastown in the direction of Newcastle and Fredericton. Newcastle being some five miles distant, and Fredericton more than a hundred miles so. The more immediate location for persons turning right is the village of Douglastown, where one already is situated at this place on road.

Highway 11 becomes Neguac Highway once one has turned left. Right turn puts one on the way into Douglastown's more populous sections. If one were to continue ahead on the road coming off of the Chatham Bridge, one is on Highway 8, going to Bathurst.

In middle image of image cluster three, the Neguac Highway begins. Sign somewhat near image centre indicates that one is now going to Neguac and Tracadie. One is still in Douglastown at this particular juncture, and will be for some distance going up Neguac Highway. One is going further and further away from the central part of Douglastown where I lived, when one is driving up Neguac Highway.

Bottom image of image cluster three. About a quarter of a mile up Neguac Highway from perspective in middle image, one encounters Big Ferry Road intersecting with the highway, and on corners of that intersection were an Irving car service station and a general store. Thompson's. This is the northernmost fringe of Douglastown. Beyond it, one is in the village of Millbank. We inhabited a trailer park up Big Ferry Road (some distance off to the left edge of image) for a short time in 1970 before moving to Newcastle. I remember my grandfather and I being at the Thompson's general store after a plan in summer of 1972 to rendez-vous with my father on the road to the Miramichi, had gone awry. My mother and I sometimes went to the Thompson store if Dot's Store in Douglastown was closed, or was lacking whatever it was that my mother wanted.

Fourth image cluster.

Top image of this fourth cluster of three images is of an exit lane veering off of the highway from Bathurst to Chatham just before that highway crosses the Chatham Bridge in the direction of Chatham on the other side of the Miramichi River. Said exit lane leads toward the main road of Douglastown, King George Highway, which goes left to right and right to left in image. Signs in foreground indicate that a left turn onto King George Highway will put one on a route to Neguac and Tracadie. And a right turn will have one going in the direction of Newcastle and Fredericton. Newcastle being some five miles distant, and Fredericton more than a hundred miles so. The more immediate location for persons turning right is the village of Douglastown, where one now is already situated at this particular juncture.

Second image, middle image, shows Douglastown being penetrated by King George Highway a hundred yards or so from the right turn in first image from top of image cluster four. This part of Douglastown known as Douglastown's lowermost section, was sparsely populated through most of the 1970s (and all five of the years in which we lived in central Douglastown). There was just a small apartment building and a few homes strung along the road between expansive fields. A Shell gasoline can be seen far in the distance.

Third and bottom image shows the turn to the Rennie Road running perpendicular to King George Highway. The large white house at image right at corner of King George Highway and Rennie Road, had behind it a barn and a vast field, and that was where the Douglastown Days parade on the final Saturday of July, 1976, was organised, assembled, started. I rode my bicycle with streamers in that parade. Pre-planning of that parade on the Frioday afternoon previous happened close to that barn and near a small trailer park. I had at noon hour that same Friday seen and audiotape-recorded the episode of The Flintstones name of "The Hyponotist", Fred meeting the Great Mesmo after having inadvertantly gypnotising Barney to act like a dog. That episode of The Flintstones and an episode of The Pink Panther Show (with "Pink Panzer", "La Feet's Defeat", "Pink On the Cob") at 2 P.M. on the Saturday of the parade, are associated in my mind with the parade, that lasted most of that Saturday morning.

The aforementioned Shell gasoline station is now better visible. Some short distance up the Rennie Road was the small trailer park to which I above refer.

Moving onward to fifth cluster of three images as one goes further into Douglastown.

Top image in this image cluster shows the Shell gasoline station past Rennie Road, and beside it a diminutive dealership of used cars. Beyond this, on King George Highway, houses start becoming more abundant. And then, one sees the famous Seven Sisters, a row of houses of identical construction, seen on left side of road in centre image in image cluster. This section of Douglastown was home to numerous of my school classmates. Harry and Kevin L. lived in houses on the right side of the main road. A short distance past the Seven Sisters, King George Highway went into a slight dip and had a minor change of direction, seen in bottom image. In the right section of bottom image is another street running perpendicular to King George Highway. Kearney Street (in the 1970s called Blarney Street). The backs of houses on that street are visible in this image, including the house of my 1973-5 sitter, Mrs. Walsh. The white house at right-most section of image. Off to the right of this image's right edge was a beaver dam that I liked to visit in 1973.

Next image cluster. Image cluster six.

Top image in image cluster six has one entering what I would call the middle part of Douglastown. The busier sector of the village where was found a general store (Dot's Store), two churches, two (eventually three) halls, Douglastown Post Office, and Douglastown Elementary School. The aforementioned Kearney Street (Blarney Street) is at a ninety-degree turn off of main road in low-right quadrant of image. Again, that street was where my sitter lived. I would be with her and her family most weekdays between 1973 and 1975 until my father collected me sometime around 5 P.M.. The general store, Dot's Store, is in the distance on left side of main road.

Centre image of image cluster three has the general store (with Pepsi sign) more clearly visible. Brick structure behind metal fence in low-right quadrant is St. Mark's Church Hall, now called Associated Lodge Hall. And the steeple to St. Mark's Church is visible in right side of image.

Bottom image provides a closer view of Dot's Store. My father and I, on our way home from my sitter's place in the afternoon, would sometimes stop at the store, and he would purchase a snack for me to "tie me over" until supper. Dot's Store was where I would procure chocolate bars, potato chips, Vachon cakes such as the 1/2 Moon, Jos Louis, and caramel Flakie, Bazooka Bubble Gum, and the Moncton Times and Saint John Telegraph Journal newspaper television listings sections in which my eyes would be searching most keenly, most hopefully, for notation of Bugs Bunny (until 1975) or Space: 1999 (from autumn of 1976), on Saturday. In front of that store was where I learned of many an upcoming broadcast of one of my two most favourite television shows. It was alongside that store that I was talked into parking my Kool Aid stand in summer of 1975. Dot was none pleased about that. St. Mark's Church, the church that we attended is the large white structure in right half of image. A short village block into the distance in bottom image, beyond St. Mark's Church and not yet visible, was the Douglastown Post Office on right side of road and Douglastown Elementary School on left side of road.

And the next image cluster. Image cluster seven.

In top image in image cluster seven are Douglastown Elementary School in foreground at image left edge, the bridge crossing Hutchinson Brook at image centre, and in distance, from left to right, St. Samuel's Church hall (with white belfry), my garage, my house, King George Highway passing my place, and a, before 1975, disused building that would be demolished in 1975 and replaced with the ill-fated Douglastown village hall (it burned to the ground in early 1978). As one can see, my school and my home were separated only by the Hutchinson Brook and the bridge (and later causeway). The shore to the Miramichi River was to the left of image's left edge. The Hutchinson Brook spilled into the Miramichi River. My habitat, my congenial habitat, this was, for the five years (1972-7) that I resided in Douglastown. One is still in Douglastown village centre, here. My friend, Michael, lived next to the St. Samuel's Church hall, behind it from this perspective, and the large tree in my front yard obscures the house of the grandparents of my friends, Johnny and Rob, who were in Douglastown for the summers. Second and middle image in the image cluster offers a view of my estate at a closer range as one is about to cross the bridge at Hutchinson Brook. Bottom image provides a perspective of the McCorry property as one is about to come off of the bridge. The impressive road curb of our property, was a favourite meeting place of neighbourhood teenagers, to the chagrin of my mother. Walking home from school, I would climb the grassy slope to our yard in advance of the street curb, pass through the fence trellis of our side yard, and enter our house through the back door, walking into our kitchen.

In that house, I saw every, or almost every, episode of television programmes that caught my fancy, airing between 1972 and 1977, and indulged such fancy with play and project, often with friends at my side. I saw Huckleberry Hound encountering a Dr. Jikkle and a "Piccadilly Dilly". I saw Yogi and his gang searching for "the perfect place". I saw Bugs Bunny finding himself in Scotland, the Sahara Desert, Antarctica, Roman times, a bullfight ring, the Wild West, a Martian space platform, a spaceship, and the terrain of the surface of Mars, Sylvester pursuing Tweety all over the world and into the realms of fiction, including the laboratory of a mind-and-body-altering scientist, and Wile E. Coyote chasing Road Runner with no end to the inventive contraptions utilised in that pursuit. I saw Fred Flintstone and his family and friends going on Stone Age excursions and even into some future times. I saw the Pink Panther and his often surrealistic surroundings and situations. I saw Spiderman going deep underground, or through portals, or into crazily psychedelic dimensions. I saw Rocket Robin Hood battling giants, denizens of The Odyssey, Electrosaurs, the controller of a giant sphinx, Lords of the Shadows and the Underworld, a "Living Planet", and the overlord of something called Dementia Five. And I saw the Moon being blasted out of Earth orbit, and Moonbase Alpha and its inhabitants in spacefaring Eagles encountering many an exceedingly extraterrestrial environment or alien life form. Or the Starship Enterprise and its heroes having "brushes" with bizarre, luminescent life forms, men with black and ghostly white sides to their faces, and alien webs, touch-of-death sirens, and doomed-to-destruction environments.

Eighth image cluster.

This is a couple of village blocks further up the main road, King George Highway, of Douglastown. This is the upper part of the village, in which my friend, Evie (Ev), lived. Also Evie's friend (and mine), Peter. And our friend, Kevin MacD.. Top image of this image cluster has Evie's house, the big, light brown one, being approached. I would walk or bicycle the left side of the road while going to see Evie. The house at left-most part of image was that of one of my sitters who was with me at our home in my later Douglastown years (1976, 1977). House with bright red trim on right side of road was Peter's. Middle image provides a view of Evie and Peter's houses at much closer range. One can visualise, I trust, Evie, Kevin MacD., and myself playing Planet of the Apes around Evie's house, and the three of us celebrating Evie's birthday on a mid-July Saturday in 1974, before I returned home for The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (and cartoons "The Windblown Hare", "Tree Cornered Tweety", "To Beep or Not to Beep", "The Dixie Fryer", "Tugboat Granny", "Bonanza Bunny", and "Hopalong Casualty"). And one can clearly see Peter's spacious yard, where Evie and Peter and I would play baseball base running.

Bottom image is the view of the main road as it passes Evie's front yard. The gravel road lowest in low-right quadrant of image was Peter's driveway, and the sandier roadway above it in image led to the Douglastown baseball park, a wide, grassy field where we had our school Olympics in 1976, and the entry to a vast array of nature trails, including my favourite of those that my grandmother and I discovered, in, I think, 1975. Further back in image, in image's right half, are houses of Kelly Drive, another of the roads perpendicular to King George Highway. Kevin MacD. lived some substantial distance up Kelly Drive, far out of the range of his image. Douglastown Cemetery was on the left side of road between the two cars in this image. Far in the distance is the village limit of Douglastown, as King George Highway proceeds along to pass through Nordin on its way to Newcastle.

And here it is. Douglastown as it was whilst I was an inhabitant of that village along the Miramichi River in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. My childhood world. Where I became fully enamoured with The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour in its Saturday transmissions, was increasingly fascinated in otherworldly locales such as those of Bugs and company, Spiderman, Rocket Robin Hood, Planet of the Apes, The Pink Panther Show, and The Flintstones, and where I became immersed in astronomy and thence the fantastic future and space phenomena of Space: 1999. Where I saw all episodes of the second season of Space: 1999, and, in French, numerous of its first season episodes. Where I was terrified and enthralled in the concept of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as envisaged in cartoons, and in Space: 1999. Where I learned of the planets and stars. Where I "took" to audiotape-recording episodes of my favourite television programmes. Where I collected comic books. Where I turned my garage into a variety of things, accompanied by friends who partook in my fun in the garage transformations. Where I was a wide-eyed, mainly happy tot. Where I belonged, back when the place looked as it does here.

Image cluster nine.

Image cluster nine shows Nordin as one is passing through it on one's way from Douglastown to Newcastle on King George Highway, the main road to Nordin as it was to Douglastown. In first image from top is Nordin Esso approached from a dip in the road. Second image from top is a view of some of the homes of Nordin. Houses and one mobile home. Far in the distance is a brick smoke stack at French Fort Cove, where Nordin ends and Newcastle begins. In bottom image, King George Highway is approaching the driveway and parking lot to French Fort Cove Restaurant, on left side of road. My parents and I ate lunch at French Fort Cove Restaurant in the afternoon on Monday, 16 February, 1976, after I had watched the Flintstones episode, "Bedrock Rodeo Roundup", that day from 12:30 P.M. to 1 P.M.. Past brick smoke stack, the King George Highway dipped as it passed the gorgeous French Fort Cove, which looked like a sight from The Beachcombers or Adventures in Rainbow Country, in advance of reaching the Newcastle town limit.

Image cluster ten.

One has passed through Nordin, on King George Highway, to go from Douglastown to the northernmost town limits of Newcastle, which are seen in top and middle images of image cluster ten. At street side in low-right quadrant of top image, my father and I found that our car had exhausted its fuel supply, as we were going home to our mobile home in Newcastle trailer court one day in my life's first era. A man assisted my father to acquire the gasoline needed for our car to reach the Shell gasoline station in bottom image in image cluster ten. Whenever we would go from our 1972-7 home in Douglastown to Newcastle, we would go through Nordin to Newcastle and meet Newcastle town limit, Newcastle welcome sign, and Esso gasometers shown in top and middle images of image cluster ten. Right turn just ahead of Newcastle welcome sign is onto Cove Road, leading to Old King George Highway and the trailer court wherein we lived from 1970 to 1972, and my 1970-2 and 1975 sitter Mrs. Waye's place.

Continuing on King George Highway past the Esso gasometers, one is on the road to the Newcastle town core, passing Fundy Line Motel and numerous houses and apartment buildings, until reaching the merging of King George Highway and Old King George Highway with Shell gasoline station situated at the union of the two highways of King George, as seen in tenth image cluster's bottom image. Running right to left in right portion of image is Old King George Highway.

Following the joining of the two roadways at near image centre, King George Highway is Newcastle's main road, going leftward in the distance, moving through a residential area with several impressive houses (including one with clovers on its faux shutters), and passing the Miramichi Hospital where my mother worked.

Image cluster eleven.

King George Highway, now deep within Newcastle, meets, in top image of image cluster eleven, Prince William Street, and at the intersection of the two roads, a Texaco car service station and a church. A left turn to Prince William Street is one way of reaching, down a hill, Pleasant Street, the thoroughfare of downtown Newcastle. Downtown Newcastle, where I shopped at such stores as Gallivan's Bookstore (buying Gold Key Looney Tunes, Tweety and Sylvester, Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, and Daffy Duck comic books, Pink Panther and Inspector Comics Digests, a Planet of the Apes paperback book, a Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, and Space: 1999 paperbacks Planets of Peril, Moon Odyssey, and Alien Seed), the Dupuis hobby store and photography store (whereat I purchased the Space: 1999 View-Master packet and other items in the View-Master line of merchandise), and some department stores, boarded S.M.T. buses to Fredericton, saw parades, and enjoyed some food at Jean's Restaurant.

In middle and bottom images of image cluster eleven are King George Highway at further intersections with roads going to Pleasant Street. First, Henry Street (in middle image), and second, George Street (in bottom image). Right turns at Prince William and George Streets put one of the course of encountering the Newcastle railway station. Prince William Street, going in that direction, passes Harkins Junior High School, a huge Catholic church, and some graveyards, crosses the train tracks, and goes through a Newcastle subdivision with Estey's Fish and Chips, an IGA store, and many residential streets, including a house in which my mother's colleague allowed me to watch The Tomorrow People (episode "The Slaves of Jedikiah: Pt. 2") one Friday afternoon in spring of 1977. There was a bakery that I quite liked, on Henry Street. Delectable marble cakes there.

Image cluster twelve.

Top image of image cluster twelve has King George Highway nearing Sweeney Lane, which extends perpendecular to King George Highway, on King George Highway's right from this image's perspective. On Sweeney Lane on, I think, Victoria Day Monday, 1976, an overcast day, I was with my mother on Sweeney Lane as she was visiting one of her patients, and with me I had, on a Memorex C-120 audiocassette, the Flintstones episode, "Kleptomaniac Caper", captured on audiotape by me earlier that day from CKCD-TV telecast. Middle image of image cluster twelve shows King George Highway nearing Newvcastle's uptown, that included a gasoline station seen in image's leftmost sector adjacent to unseen (more to left) Miramichi Mall, for which a red and white sign is present in left portion of image. Bottom image in image cluster twelve offers a view of King George Highway nearing Kingsway Restaurant (one of our family's occasional eating places) on its right, a Volkswagen automobile dealership on its left, and in its distance a Fina gasoline station, and sign to the Dairy Queen fast food restaurant of uptown Newcastle, behind which was a bowling alley and a grocery store.

Image cluster thirteen.

King George Highway is about to pass the Sinclair Rink in top image of image cluster thirteen. The rink at which I and my Douglastown Elementary School schoolmates had Friday morning skating in early 1977, and discussions about Space: 1999 and other entertainment of an imaginative nature, while in the boots-to-skates changing room or at the canteen for the procurement of some of the best French fries that I have ever had. Middle image of thirteenth image cluster has King George Highway approaching the Dairy Queen, one of my more frequented eating establishments in all of the years of my living in the Miramichi region. And bottom image of image cluster thirteen shows King George Highway reaching Parks' Dairy Bar, also in uptown Newcastle a town block or two beyond the Dairy Queen on one's way toward the Repap paper mill and the highway to Fredericton. Many a memory of having ice cream there. Chocolate ripple, and sometimes even coffee-flavoured ice cream. One day, in August of 1975, people were watching The Edge of Night on television inside Parks' Dairy Bar, and I remember seeing Serena Faraday in her Josie personality and black wig scheming to do something sinister.

Image cluster fourteen.

Top image in fourteenth image cluster shows King George Highway in Newcastle, making a ninety-degree right turn to proceed alongside the Repap paper mill in Newcastle's southernmost section. The sulphurous odours were unforgettable. A car with all windows sealed was still flooded with the gaseous discharge from the mill, as one passed the mill and neared the Newcastle town limit and the Anderson Bridge through which Highway 8 started its 100-mile span toward the Capital Region of New Brunswick.

From Newcastle on our way to Fredericton, we passed The Enclosure campground and went through Millerton, Renous, Blackville, Doaktown, and Boiestown, the last of which is shown in centre and bottom images of fourteenth image cluster. As the highway left Boiestown to continue onward to Fredericton, it gave way to an offshoot to the village of Stanley and a Porter Ridge, before turning to the left. At the junction of the highway and its offshoot was a small mobile home that my mother always remarked about, as we passed.

Image cluster fifteen.

From Boiestown, we went through McGivney, Taymouth, and finally Marysville. Now a part of Fredericton, Marysville in 1973 was a town in its own right, albeit a small one. Highway 8 became Marysville's Canada Street and encountered a church hall with a message about Jesus Christ scrolled on its side, saying that He died for our sins, or, later, that His blood has clenseth us of all sin. Top image in fifteenth image cluster shows that Church hall to the right of the road. At this stage of its passage through Marysville, the road changed name from Canada Street to Gibson Street. Less than half a mile up the road, as seen in centre image of fifteenth image cluster, Gibson Street met a street called Barker as it approached Union Street of Fredericton and the Saint John River. Bottom image of image cluster fifteen has Gibson Street meeting Union Street, beyond which is Carleton Park, the Saint John River, and the skyline of downtown Fredericton, including the dome of the New Brunswick Legislature building. A right turn onto Union Street would put one in the direction of the Carleton Street Bridge and the means of reaching the West Plat area of Fredericton South, where my grandparents lived on Saunders Street until the autumn of 1973. From autumn of 1973 onward, they lived in Skyline Acres, reachable with a left turn onto Union Street and a mile-away Princess Margaret Bridge. Skyline Acres was on the southern side of the Princess Margaret, past a Keddy's Motor Inn.

My grandparents in their Skyline Acres home (on Bristol Street) lived in close proximity to a Scholten's 7-11 where I partook in Bubblicious, Bubble Yum, or Hubba Bubba gum (none of which was available then in the Miramichi), enjoyed Strawberry Shortcake or Fudgsicle or Drumstick ice cream bars, and/or bought TV Guide magazine or a Flintstones or Great Gazoo comic book. My grandparents were possessors of something called cable television, through which American network television was available, including the CBS television network, via WAGM-TV Presque Isle, Maine, and a Saturday A.M. line-up including The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (and episodes of which I had not seen before on Canada's CBC Television), The Sylvester and Tweety Show (in 1976-7), Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, Speed Buggy, Fat Albert, Clue Club, Scooby-Doo, et cetera, et cetera. Skyline Acres boasted an vast array of impressive streets, all of them named after British cities or districts, on which I walked and bicycled- when not watching television (whilst my grandfather was enjoying his favourite television game shows or my grandmother was "catching up" with Another World).

Image cluster sixteen.

We went from the Miramichi to Fredericton to visit my grandparents three or four times every summer, most Christmases and Easters, and a few other times each year, before our moving to northside Fredericton on that fateful day in August of 1977. After a stay with my grandparents, we would return to the Miramichi and our home in Douglastown via Highway 8 and the same above mentioned New Brunswick communities along the way. If we were staying with my grandparents before autumn of 1973, we would cross the Saint John River by way of the Carleton Street Bridge, the Fredericton South entry to which is seen in top image of image cluster sixteen. Image cluster sixteen's middle and bottom images show the Carleton Street Bridge reaching Fredericton North and giving way to Cliffe Street, which intersects with Union Street. When returning to the Miramichi after a stay with my grandparents in their Saunders Street house, pre-autumn-of-1973, my parents and I crossed the Saint John River via the Carleton Street Bridge, and would then use Cliffe Street, Union Street, and Highway 8 starting as Gibson Street, becoming Canada Street, and, post-Marysville, the highway to Newcastle.

Seventeenth image cluster.

This cluster of images is more eclectic than the others. First, with top image, is shown the Vanier Highway of Fredericton passing Skyline Acres and Liverpool Street, which connected Skyline Acres to the Vanier. The road extending from left corner of image to meet the Vanier Highway was Liverpool Street. I would walk or bicycle street Liverpool to its fringe shown in image and observe the highway traffic and be impressed by a direction sign for Saint John and Edmundston, duplicating that sign in our driveway in Douglastown.

Middle image of image cluster seventeen offers a view of the intersecting of Union Street with Gibson Street, from Union Street as it proceeds from the Carleton Street Bridge to the beginning (Gibson Street) of the road to Newcastle. One turns left onto Gibson Street from this perspective, to go to the Miramichi. And if my parents and I were returning home after a visit with my grandparents in Skyline Acres, we would approach this intersection from the opposite direction (from background to foreground). And turn right onto Gibson.

Bottom image of image cluster seventeen is back in Newcastle, with King George Highway passing the Shell gasoline station at King George Highway's split into two roads (Old King George Highway, King George Highway). House dominating right half of image always had my fancy and my attention whenever my parents and I were going past it. I liked the design and colour of it. Three being my favourite number, it having three front windows on its upper floor, appealed to me. I remember thinking of the second instalment of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour and its final cartoon, "Birds of a Father", on the afternoon of Sunday, 22 September, 1974, as my parents and were returning to our home in Douglastown following a lunch at Newcastle Dairy Queen. That episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour had aired on the Saturday evening before. I was aware that CBC Television looked like it was going to go again through the cycle of twenty-six Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour episodes for another year and was feeling very appreciative of such. As I say, thoughts of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour episodes were with me often as we went about the Miramichi region, and memories of looking at houses and other structures are linked in my mind to episodes and cartoons of the television vehicle for the cartoons of Bugs Bunny and company as shown on the CBC television network and its northern New Brunswick affiliate, CKCD.

Here is a trio of images of some of the aforementioned ice cream treat products that I enjoyed while staying in Skyline Acres, Fredericton, with my grandparents.

And three images of aforementioned buggle gum of my favour.

And now, some cover images of cartoon character comic books bought by me in my second life era.

Here is a cluster of images representing my book shopping in the downtown core of Fredericton while in the New Brunswick Capital Region visiting my grandparents in the second era of my life in which I lived in Douglastown. Hall's Bookstore, which was on Queen Street in the Fredericton York-to-Carleton block, had in its inventory some of the Skills Handbooks for school reading textbooks of my Grade 2 and 3 time frame. And United Book Stores, a dealer in second-hand books (as its advertisement calling for used books of multiple sorts indicates), was a Fredericton shopping destination of me, with acquisitions of not-for-sale-in-Miramichi-region comic books in mind. Located then on Fredericton King Street within the York-to-Carleton block adjacent to the Zellers department store then dominating that block, United Book Stores was abundantly stocked with Gold Key comic books printed some years previous. Few of them in pristine, unread condition. I remember coming upon comic books of a wide range of wear. All had their front and back covers, but some were retaining them by one staple or half-staple. Others had tears in covers, or creases or folds. I remember buying some of the comic books in the mostly-undamaged condition bracket, and rejecting some that, although interesting, were extensively degraded. The row of comic book covers at top in this image cluster, is comprised of the covers of comic books that I encountered at Fredericton United Book Stores in my second life era. All of the comic books on display at Fredericton United Book Stores, were in boxes strung along the floor below the shelves bearing paperback books.

Here are images of the titling to an array of television programmes watched by me in my life's Era 2. Although I did favour cartoons, children's television shows, and science fiction/fantasy in my time in front of our living room television, I did give viewings to television programmes of a diversity of types. Domestic situation comedy, police and private detective drama, the game television show, and a panel television show about obscure Canadian laws being broken.

The Rookies and Hawaii Five-O were considered the most violent television series of their time. I do not remember watching Hawaii Five-O until after CHSJ-TV (which aired it) had a Miramichi region re-transmitter in operation starting October, 1976.

And here is my Douglastown Elementary School class picture for Grade 5 (1976-7). Photographed in the Grade 2 portable classroom on a morning in early 1977. I am second from right, bottom row. Looking rather contented. As I believe that I was, then. My friends and classmates looking as they did in my last days with them in our school.

In spring of 1977, I came upon the Space: 1999 paperback books being for sale in two Miramichi region stores, Gallivan's Bookstore in Newcastle, and Joe's Store in Chatham. Here are the back covers to two of the Space: 1999 books purchased by me from those two stores. Alien Seed on left and Phoenix of Megaron on right. Phoenix of Megaron was the first Space: 1999 paperback novel to be brought into my possession, one cool April evening in 1977. Alien Seed was bought a couple of months later, on a warm and sunny June Saturday. Phoenix of Megaron purchased at Joe's Store, and Alien Seed at Gallivan's.

And in my final weeks of living in the Miramichi, I was seeking to procure two other Space: 1999 books, Android Planet and Rogue Planet, that were listed in the "other books in this series" column in some of the Space: 1999 books that I did have. I was not able to find and acquire them in the Miramichi, and I bought them in Fredericton days after moving there. Here are the back covers to those two Space: 1999 books, Android Planet and Rogue Planet.

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