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. The era of my life in which my interest in the cartoons of Warner Brothers was cemented. The era of my life in which I first saw the television series, Space: 1999. The era of my life in which I had first memorable impressions from cartoon television series Spiderman and Rocket Robin Hood, and The Pink Panther Show, and numerous other productions yielded by the human imagination at its most elaborate.

I lived in the Miramichi region of New Brunswick in the years when I had early experiences of imaginative works of my favour.

The sights of the Miramichi region are inextricably conjoined in my mind with early experiences of many works of imagination favourably regarded by me.

This image gallery starts with a cluster of three images of late autumn of 1974.

Top image in the image cluster shows Douglastown's Kelly Drive. The house closest in view on right side of road, was that of my friend, Kevin MacD., whom I visited a number of times in 1974. In one of the finished downstairs rooms of Kevin's house, he and I made, for him, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, an audiotape copy of the CBC Television broadcast of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour episode containing cartoons "Devil May Hare", "Rushing Roulette", "Tweet and Lovely", and others, audiotape-recorded by me the Saturday previous, that of 6 July, 1974. More than a month prior to that, I was visiting Kevin on a sunny Saturday afternoon, thinking of the previous Saturday's Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour with cartoons "Tweet and Sour", "Hot Cross Bunny", "Muzzle Tough, "Bugs' Bonnets", and others. And hours after that sunny Saturday visit with Kevin, I would see a further Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, with "Mississippi Hare", "Duck Amuck"., "Tweet Zoo", et cetera.

On some school days in 1974, Kevin would go home for lunch, and would be conducted by car back to school, where I would be awaiting for him at the opening to the school grounds' fence. He would pass my place on his way back to school, and in the late autumn his sights on his return to school from lunch, would include what is shown in the middle image in image cluster. School in distance past the Hutchinson Brook, my home to the right, concealed by trees. In bottom image in image cluster is the aforementioned opening in fence to school grounds. Kevin would see me standing at that fence opening, waiting to see him and talk with him.

Television programmes of 1974 that connected me, in some way, with my friend, Kevin MacD.. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour and cartoons, "Devil May Hare", "Rushing Roulette", "Tweet and Lovely", of the episode of it airing Saturday, July 6, 1974. Planet of the Apes. Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins.

In autumn of 1974, Kevin and I, together with our mutual friend, Evie, were followers of the broadcasts, on Friday evenings, of Planet of the Apes. In the above clustered three images of Douglastown were sights before our eyes in the late autumn weeks of 1974 as we were in our Douglastown habitat, cogitating and conversing about Planet of the Apes. That autumn also continued engagement of me and friends with The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, and it was also when I watched Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins on weekday afternoons after school. And thinking of Kevin, to whom the dark-haired boy in that television show, was, for me, resemblant. My thoughts were with Kevin and these television programmes, as I went about the part of Douglastown shown in middle image in the image cluster.

The image gallery will now bring its beholder through the major Miramichi area townships and villages as they looked in the 1970s, starting with the outskirts of the Town of Chatham at its southernmost and easternmost. This process will extend through thirteen clusters of three place images.

First cluster of three place 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).

This 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 on weekday mornings 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).

The episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour shown by CBC Television on the second Saturday of February, 1975, contained the cartoons, "Claws For Alarm" (first image from left), "Roman Legion-Hare" (second image from left), "Home, Tweet Home" (third image from left), "Terrier-Stricken" (fourth image from left), and "Sugar and Spies" (last image from left), and two others. That was a Saturday of mortal danger for me in a C.F.B. Chatham swimming pool.

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 The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour). 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).

Images of The Pink Panther Show. The music of the Pink Panther would be performed by me using silverware of the Portage Restaurant near C.F.B. Chatham, Miramichi region of New Brunswick, Canada.

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. Texaco, Irving, Esso, and Gulf. 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 the main road of the village of Douglastown. Left turn there at that meeting of roads is a turn onto the highway 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. Closest municipality for persons turning right is the village of Douglastown, for which the sign demarcating its limit soon becomes visible.

Highway 11 becomes Neguac Highway once one has turned left. Right turn puts one on the way into Douglastown's more populous sections. And 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 going further and further away from Douglastown and the part of Douglastown where I lived, when one is driving up Neguac Highway.

Delights from the mid-1970s. Tic Tac candy (in mint and cinnamon), sold at the cashiers' stations at the Chatham, Miramichi Save-Easy grocery store. Humpty Dumpty and Hostess potato chips, available at grocery and general stores throughout the Miramichi region. Including Dot's Store in Douglastown. Same went for Vachon cakes. And for travels of my parents and I to Fredericton or Moncton, A & W Root Beer (as advertised with the Root Bear and his distinctive musical accompaniment).

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 outside Douglastown, technically. Though regarded, spoken about, as still being part 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, which runs left to right and right to left in image. Signs in foreground indicate that a left turn 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 closest municipal boundary for persons turning right is that of the village of Douglastown. One is yards away from the village limit of Douglastown at this particular juncture.

Second image, middle image, shows Douglastown being penetrated by its main road a few dozen 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.

The Flintstones episode, "The Hypnotist", was telecast in the noon hour of the 1976 July Friday preceding the Saturday of a parade in celebration of Douglastown Days, a parade in which I was a participant. Pre-planning of the parade was in the afternoon of that Friday on which I saw The Flintstones- "The Hypnotist".

An episode of The Pink Panther Show with the three cartoons, "Pink Panzer", "La Feet's Defeat", and "Pink On the Cob", aired at 2 P.M. on the Saturday of the Douglastown Days parade in July, 1976.

Third and bottom image shows the turn to the Rennie Road running perpendicular to the main Douglastown road. The large white house at image right at corner of main Douglastown road 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 Friday 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 hypnotising 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 on main Douglastown road past Rennie Road, and beside it a diminutive dealership of used cars. Beyond this, on main Douglastown road, 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 Douglastown road. A short distance past the Seven Sisters, main Douglastown road 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 main Douglastown road. That street was Kearney Street. The backs of houses on Kearney 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 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.

Television shows that I watched on many a Saturday morning in my time as an inhabitant of Douglastown. Rocket Robin Hood and Spiderman.

Centre image of image cluster six 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, main Douglastown road 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 by the Hutchinson Brook and the bridge (and later causeway). Them plus a street going to the left of the main road after it passes the Hutchinson Brook, that street going to St. Samuel’s Church hall and turning to become the road behind my home. 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.

My beholding of the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Transylvania 6-5000", in an instalment of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour airing late Januarys and late Julys, was one of a multitude of my television viewing experiences while I was a young inhabitant of the village of Douglastown, along the Miramichi River of New Brunswick, Canada.

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, Transylvania, 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 of Douglastown. This is the upper part of the village, in which my friend, Evie, 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 main Douglastown road. 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 main road between the two cars in this image. Far in the distance is the village limit of Douglastown, as main Douglastown road becomes King George Highway, which proceeds along to pass through Nordin on its way to Newcastle.

I was fully enamoured with The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour in its CBC Television Saturday transmissions in years of my inhabitation of Douglastown, New Brunswick, Canada.

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 CBC Television 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 started 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 via King George Highway. 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.

Images of a serial of the television series, The Tomorrow People. A serial name of "The Slaves of Jedikiah". The second part of which I saw at the home of a friend of my mother's, in the New Brunswick, Canada, town of Newcastle, in the spring of 1977.

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.

And now, some image clusters showing the sights of travel from Newcastle to New Brunswick's Capital Region and the City of Fredericton, where my grandparents resided.

This is what I will call image cluster one-a.

Top image in image cluster one-a 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 image cluster one-a. 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 two-a.

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 image cluster two-a 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 image cluster two-a, Gibson Street met a street called Barker as it approached Union Street of Fredericton and the Saint John River. Bottom image of image cluster two-a 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.

Television on Saturday mornings at the cable television-endowed home of my grandparents in Fredericton, included, from left to right in this quintet of images, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, Speed Buggy, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, Scooby-Doo, and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

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, Clue Club, Scooby-Doo, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, 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).

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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 three-a. Image cluster three-a'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.

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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.

Images representative of the first twelve months of my life's second era. Huckleberry Hound, whose weekday 5 P.M. broadcasts were watched by me in the living room of my Douglastown domicile. Miniature cars which I collected, and with which I played, after I had made roads for them in the sand. A book about Biblical times, that caught my notice at at my grandparents' place on Saunders Street, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, on the weekend in June, 1973 whereupon I saw the episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour with cartoons "This is a Life?", "The Jet Cage", "Mouse Wreckers", "Wideo Wabbit", "Stop! Look! And Hasten!", "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", and "There They Go-Go-Go!". Me having some backyard fun with my new friends, Johnny and Rob, outside their grandparents' Douglastown residence sometime in summer of 1972. I am the tyke on the pool mattress, behind Rob and Johnny. The book of Bible stories read by my Grade 1 teacher, Mrs. Boomer, at Douglastown Elementary School.

Middle image of image cluster four-a 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 four-a 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 threesome of images representing the year in my life that was 1974.

Centre image is a picture, a photograph, of the going-away party held on the evening of August 19, 1974 for my friends, Johnny and Rob, as they were about to return to Ontario after their usual summer's stay with their grandparents in Douglastown. In the photograph, my friend, Michael, and I are with Johnny and Rob and their younger cousin, for some fun with sparklers, in the backyard of Johnny and Rob's grandparents' place in central Douglastown, two doors up Douglastown main road from my home. Michael is farthest left in photograph, and I, in my bell-bottom red pants, am beside him. Beside me on my other side is Rob. Johnny is most prominent in picture. And to his side, farthest from left left in photograph, is his and Rob's younger cousin. Going-away parties for Johnny and Rob were a yearly event. Always on the Monday after the third weekend of August. They would board an aeroplane for Ontario on the following morning.

Photograph is flanked on its left by an image of the Tweety-and-Sylvester cartoon, "Hyde and Go Tweet", which was in my thoughts while I was at the party, a reappearance of it on the following Saturday (i.e. that of August 24, 1974) on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour evidently imminent, based on what I was noticing of the CBC Television sequence of repeated episodes of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour through that summer. And photograph is flanked on its right by an image of the house of Johnny and Rob's grandparents from later that same year (late autumn, to be more precise). In the distance in image is the Miramichi River, and, beyond it, Chatham Head.

My parents and I had a stereo system that included an 8-track audiotape deck. Here is an image of a 1973 Realistic 8-track audiotape stereo deck that closely resembles the one that we had. The image is flanked by representation of some television programming that I captured on 8-track audiotape while I was between "compact cassette" machines for a time. My parents allowed me to use some of their pre-recorded 8-track audiotapes for my off-of-television audiotape-recordings. An episode of The Flintstones, "A Star is Almost Born", that aired on CHSJ-TV one weekday in 1973. One of the less interesting (to me, at least) entries in the Flintstones trope of show business aspiration for Fred and Wilma (and Barney and Betty). And the early-to-mid-January and early-to-mid-July CBC Television-broadcast instalment of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour containing such cartoons as "Tree Cornered Tweety", "The Dixie Fryer", "Tugboat Granny", and "Hopalong Casualty". I had those 8-track audiotape recordings for quite a long time. They were recorded on the left audio channel only, which for some reason could not be erased in subsequent repurposings of those 8-track audiotapes.

One of my earliest "compact cassette" machines was a compact, portable one. Battery powered. And as such unreliable in the audiotape-recording of an hour-long television show, such as The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Loss of battery power could cause the recording process to slow, before the energy supply depleted altogether, right in the middle of an audiotape-recording. It was not long before I had a "compact cassette" machine with a power cord and plug, to preserve the sound of my favourite works on television on magnetic tape. My newer machines would come with exterior, wired microphones that I could place on pillows beaneath the television speaker. Whereas the compact, portable device had an internal microphone. The Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in a television studio cartoon, "Wideo Wabbit", was in the first episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour that I committed to audiocassette, in June of 1973. On the cover of a Radio Shack 1973 catalogue, was the stereo system that my parents and I had. Not all of it. The 8-track audiotape deck was missing from the photograph. And unrelated to my interest in audiotape-recordings, was chewing gum. Of the non-bubble variety. Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, and Big Red were routinely partaken by me, often with multiple strips of gum at a time. We bought some Big Red at a restaurant in Doaktown on one of our travels from Douglastown to Fredericton, after I had a hot dog at that restaurant, Betts' Family Restaurant, central Doaktown. Chiclets were usually a Halloween item. Given during tricks-or-treats.

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 the television listings for Saturday, July 26, 1975, in The Moncton Times' "Leisure Living" supplement. "Leisure Living" was to be found in the Saturday issue of the Moncton, New Brunswick newspaper, read by me often in front of Dot's Store in Douglastown as I was searching for Bugs Bunny in the Saturday television listings. And, later, Space: 1999, also in the Saturday television listings, post-September-of-1976, Space: 1999 having assumed the Saturday airtime formerly occupied, until autumn of 1975, by Bugs Bunny (and his "fast-feathered" friend, the Road Runner). July 26, 1975 saw the final airing on CBC Television and on CBC affiliates CKCD and CHSJ (and its Moncton re-transmitter, CHMT), of the episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour with cartoons "Robot Rabbit", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight", "Transylvania 6-5000", "A Bird in a Guilty Cage", "Lickety-Splat!", and "Clippety Clobbered". Airing at 4 P.M. instead of 6 P.M. due to The Canadian Open golf tournament broadcast live from 5 P.M. to 7 P.M.. My audiotape-recording of that day's Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was with me some days later while I was at my Newcastle-based sitter's place. I was listening to it in my sitter's front yard as I was awaiting my father's coming to bring me home.

Here are the television listings for Saturday, 25 September, 1976 in The Moncton Times "Leisure Living" supplement for the previous Saturday. In 1976, newspaper television listings in New Brunswick were inclusive of cable television channels, Maine television stations affiliated with one or more of the then three U.S. television networks, ABC, CBS, NBC. In Moncton, WLBZ- Bangor, Maine, was channel 3, and WVII- Bangor, Maine, was channel 8. WLBZ was NBC affiliated. WVII was an affiliate of ABC. Not available in Moncton were Bangor's CBS-affiliated WABI and Presque Isle, Maine's WAGM, which was primarily CBS but also aired ABC and NBC programming. Fredericton had WAGM on its cable television dial. It was a good thing that I did not have a cable television option that day in my Douglastown home (cable television would not be in New Brunswick's Miramichi region for another few years yet), as Space: 1999 and Bugs Bunny being shown at the same time would have presented me with a most perplexing dilemma of a choice; I was intent on seeing the next hour of action on Moonbase Alpha after Maya had joined the Moonbase crew in "The Metamorph" the week before, but could I possibly resist an opportunity to see (and audiotape-record) Bugs Bunny? The Space: 1999 episode that day was "The Exiles". Cosmos 1999 was as yet undiscovered by me. It would not be so until October 16. Its episode that evening was "Collision Inevitable". The episode of The Flintstones that sunny autumn morning was, I think, "Curtain Call at Bedrock", with Gazoo laughing himself silly as Fred and Barney's turn as Romeorock and Juiletstone was as disastrous as it was hilarious.

Here is a cluster of images of depictions of otherworldliness in entertainments of my viewing in my second life era. Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian cartoons. Rocket Robin Hood and Spiderman episodes involving a Dr. Manta on either Manta Asteroid (Rocket Robin Hood) or some uncharted island (Spiderman). The Inspector cartoon, "Bomb Voyage", on The Pink Panther Show. And Space: 1999 and Star Trek.

Here are images of two movies that I saw at a Chatham drive-in theatre. Juggernaut and The Return of the Pink Panther. Both were filmed in the U.K.. Both had amongst their actors and actresses people who were, or would be, in my favourite television series, Space: 1999. Space: 1999, of which I had no awareness, experience, or knowledge on the nights that I saw those two movies on the drive-in film screen.

ATV's Midday Matinee was a vehicle for my watching of movies on television in the 1970s. Airing from 1 P.M. to 2:30 P.M., Midday Matinee offered movies of diverse genres to television viewers of Canada's eastern Maritimes. Here is a collation, in alphabetical order, of the titlings of movies that were shown on Midday Matinee.

I am certain that I saw six of these nine movies on Midday Matinee. Them being Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, The Green Slime, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Night Strangler, Pinocchio in Outer Space, and The Projected Man. "Baby Elephant Walk" was one of my favourite pieces of music, and that being the case, I likely did see at least some of Hatari!. But whether or not that was by way of its airing on Midday Matinee, I cannot say with certainty.

Some of the movies that I saw on Midday Matinee were before my eyes while I was staying with my sitter, Mrs. Walsh. The Projected Man, for one. This cluster of images shows my route, on an autumn's day in 1974, from school past the Douglastown general store (Dot's Store) and up Kearney Street to where the Walshes lived. The house at the intersection of Kearney Street with Douglastown's main road, is visible in the top image to the left of the truck. In middle image is Kearney Street going up a slight incline after its intersection with main road of Douglastown. Closest house on the right was the Walshes' place. I was standing in front of the Walsh doorway farthest from foreground on the afternoon on which I saw The Projected Man, contemplating the horrific happenings in the movie. I was also in that same location on the day that I had heard of Adam Drake having been stabbed on The Edge of Night. Far in the distance was a farmhouse, whose long driveway was sometimes the site of some miniature car play on my part. Bottom image shows that farmhouse and driveway at closer range.

All of the other above mentioned movies on Midday Matinee that I saw, were experienced by me in my home's living room. I stopped going to Mrs. Walsh in 1975. In autumn of 1975, in 1976, and in 1977, I went directly home after school, and was usually by myself when I watched television in the afternoon.

And here are images of the titling to an array of weekly or daily 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.

The following clusters of images are from sunny Friday, August 9, 1974. The Friday before the twenty-second Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour instalment, with cartoons "The Hasty Hare", "Beep Prepared", "Claws For Alarm", "Roman Legion-Hare", "Home, Tweet Home", "Terrier-Stricken", and "Sugar and Spies", aired on CBC Television and on CKCD and CHSJ in New Brunswick.

These three images show the above mentioned Neguac Highway and Big Ferry Road, and a turn lane that joined to the Chatham Bridge on its Douglastown side.

And these three images are of the highest section of the Chatham Bridge, the descending of the bridge on the Chatham side, and the road, Highway 11, going past turn lanes to and from downtown Chatham.

First and second images from top in this trio of images show Highway 11 passing the Sobeys and Zellers shopping centre (called County Fair Mall) at which, in Zellers, I, in 1977, bought Space: 1999 colouring books, a Space: 1999 Professor Bergman doll, and a Star Trek phaser. I ate many a meal at Zellers' Skillet restaurant, rode a mechanical horse ride in that shopping centre's main corridor, and bought three-packs of Gold Key comic books. Bottom image has Highway 11 nearing the signpost to C.F.B. Chatham, workplace of my father and at which I shopped at a CANEX (which had Memorex and SONY audio cassettes with which I audiotape-recorded episodes of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour).

Another item of Space: 1999 merchandise that I bought in 1977 was a Space: 1999 water "stun gun". Purchased at the Continental department store in a strip mall in Chatham's downtown. Here is an image of the Space: 1999 water "stun gun", and some images, showing the Space: 1999 laser gun upon which the water "stun gun" was designed, of episodes of Space: 1999.

Highway 11 running along C.F.B. Chatham, and passing a baseball field at which my father and I one afternoon in 1975 attended a baseball game, the Texaco Restaurant, the Portage Restaurant, and Chatham Airport.

Here is an assemblage of images of various delicious items of which I partook in the Douglastown years of my upbringing. Kraft Marshmallows in hot chocolate or toasted above an open fire. Kraft Caramels. Lipton Cup-a-Soup.

And my sweet tooth was gratified, also, by everything in this image compilation. Shreddies, Rice Krispies, and Corn Flakes cereals with copious particles of sugar applied by me. And already sweetened Kelloggs cereals Froot Loops, Apple Jacks, and Frosted Flakes. And pinwheel cookies and ginger snap cookies made by my mother. And marketed-in-stores Chocolate Wafers and Ginger Snaps.

Lipton Cup-a-Soup shown two image conglomerations above, was one lunch item that I had in my second life era. I remember one day my Grade 2 teacher, Mrs. Lyons, boiling some water for me to have Cup-a-Soup during a lunch hour at school. Here is an assemblage of images of some of my other lunch and dinner meals in my Douglastown years. Kraft and Chef Boyardee pizzas for preparation in home kitchen. McCain oven-heated French fries. Campbell's Chunky Soup. Kraft offered a sausage meat pizza as Chef Boyardee did. It was not until my final year or so in Douglastown that I started having the sausage meat pizza of both brands. In my subsequent life era, sausage meat pizza, Kraft and Chef Boyardee, was my go-to for pizza made in the home. My preferred Chunky Soup was Beef Burger.

Here are more image representations of meals of mine of my years betwixt 1972 and 1977. Chef Boyardee also offered a spaghetti dinner, with pasta, sauce, and cheese. I had that occasionally, but much less often than I partook of Kraft's Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, which had a meatier, thicker, tangier sauce. Swanson frozen dinners, colloquially called "TV dinners", and their inferior quality rival, Savarin frozen dinners, also of the colloquial "TV dinner" designation, were sometimes on my daily food intake. I was eating one of them while staying at my grandparents' place in Fredericton in June of 1973, on the Saturday that I first audiotape-recorded an episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. The Ponderosa Steakhouse's opening in Fredericton in the mid-1970s enabled me to enjoy a juicy, flame-broiled, exquisitely tender sirloin steak while on a visit with my grandparents.

Here are images of five of the seven cartoons in the episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour broadcast of CBC Television on Saturday, May 4, 1974. From left to right, "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse", "The Slick Chick", "Tree For Two", "Hoppy Daze", and "A Bird in a Bonnet". That episode was not listed in New Brunswick newspaper television guides for that day, CBC Television slated as preempting The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour for Kentucky Derby. And to my surprise, there it was, on the living room television screen, serving to me colourful cartoon action. CBC's rival Canadian television network, CTV, was airing the Kentucky-situated horse race instead.

On Saturday, August 3, 1974, a family reunion at my grandparents' house in Fredericton brought about my watching of that day's broadcast-on-CBC Television episode of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour with a couple of my cousins. And in that episode, the cartoons, "Beanstalk Bunny", "Double or Mutton", "The Wild Chase", "Bugsy and Mugsy", "Hawaiian Aye Aye". "Chili Weather", and "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner". From left to right in these images are the first five cartoons here mentioned by title.

Five images of an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man that constituted a nerve-racking hour of television viewing for me in the autumn of 1974. Called "The Pioneers", it involved two astronauts, a married couple, with an experimental blood serum that turns one of them, the man (played by Mike Farrell), into a rampaging maniac with super-strength. Bionic man Colonel Steve Austin and Dr. Rudy Wells parachute to a fallen space capsule containing the astronauts.

Here are some late autumn, 1974 images of various parts of Douglastown. Around the time that I was watching and audiotape-recording such cartoons as "Catty Cornered", "Cannery Woe", "Stupor Duck", "Wet Hare", "A Pizza Tweety-Pie", "Dog Pounded", "Lighter Than Hare", "Claws in the Lease", "Mississippi Hare", "Duck Amuck", "Tweet Zoo", "Big House Bunny", and "Mad as a Mars Hare" on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, being amused at The Hudson Brothers Razzle-Dazzle Show, beholding Dr. Zonk and the Zunkins, observing the struggles of Virdon, Burke, and Galen against Urko in such Planet of the Apes episodes as "The Interrogation", "The Tyrant", and "The Cure", and preparing with my Grade 3 class for the Douglastown Elementary School Christmas show, I was seeing sights of Douglastown such as these.

In top image is the Rennie Road of Douglastown' lower end, going into the distance from its beginning off of the Douglastown main road. This sector of Douglastown is most memorable for me for it being where the Douglastown Days parade formed and began its progress through the village, on Saturday, July 31, 1976. More specifically, in the vicinity of the barn in image's left half. Far in the distance is a trailer park, where I remember being on the afternoon of the Friday before the parade, and thinking about the Flintstones episode, "The Hypnotist", that aired earlier that day.

Centre image shows the road running between my yard and the bank of the Hutchinson Brook, intersecting in the distance with the main Douglastown road, along whose sidewalk a pedestrian is approaching the Hutchinson Brook bridge, which was to the right beyond image's right edge. The fringes of my yard are in foreground at image left. Far in distance is a disused hall that would, in 1975, be replaced by the Douglastown village hall and fire station. The street across the intersection, going past and behind the hall, led to St. Samuel's Roman Catholic Church.

In bottom image is a short road of centre Douglastown not far from my home surroundings, running along the Miramichi River. One of the girls in my class used to live in the house at back of the road.

The Peanuts television special, Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown, premiered in Canada and the U.S. in February, 1975. Almost a year after my first experience of a Valentine's Day celebration at school, in February of 1974. Here are four images of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. I would note that music in that particular Peanuts outing, was in places heart-rending, and intensely melancholic. An effect complemented by visuals of trees in their sparse-of-leaf February state, and some decidedly un-cheery sky. Nine-year-old me was moved in emotion by sound and sights of Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown. A television special that visited upon Charlie Brown and Linus the cruellest imaginable disappointments on a day that for everybody else in the Peanuts fold, was quite fulfilling.

And here are episodes of The Flintstones that I saw in 1976. "Indianrockolis 500", which I remember seeing on a Thursday late in February. "The Rolls Rock Caper" and "Superstone" were two of the Flintstones episodes that I experienced during March Break. I beheld them on the Thursday and Friday of that week while in the comfort of our living room. All of these were via ATV broadcaster CKCW (or CKCD). 12:30 P.M.. "Nothing But the Tooth", I saw from a 5:30 P.M. broadcast on a cable television channel while I was staying with my grandparents. I audiotape-recorded "Kleptomaniac Caper" on a Memorex C-120 "compact cassette" from its ATV showing on Victoria Day. I remember reclining comfortably in the black chair in our living room on the sunny June Friday that "The Buffalo Convention" aired at 12:30 P.M. on ATV, a full afternoon off from school ahead of me. "Wilma, the Maid" was another June Friday 12:30 P.M. Flintstones viewing engagement. And "Foxy Grandma" on a late June Thursday constituted one of my first post-school-year Flintstones watchings. I remember thinking about it later the same afternoon while I was in our garage.

And here are five images of episodes of Space: 1999 aired in English or in French in my part of planet Earth in December of 1976. "La metamorphose" (on Cosmos 1999, Space: 1999-Francophone) on 4 December, and its English counterpart, "The Metamorph", on December 11. "Tout ce qui Reluit" (French iteration of "All That Glisters") also on December 11. "Journey to Where" on December 18. And, on Christmas Day, "The Taybor" and "Humain, ne serait-ce qu'un Moment" (French version of "One Moment of Humanity").

CHSJ-TV in New Brunswick in early 1977 had a Saturday line-up that consisted of such television programmes as The Adventures of the Lone Ranger, Star Trek, CBC Curling Classic, Space: 1999, The Muppet Show, and Welcome Back, Kotter. CBC Curling Classic and Space: 1999 were aired by CHSJ off of the CBC feed from CBHT Halifax. Here are images of those television programmes.

Episodes of Star Trek on CHSJ in early 1977.

Three spring images of the Miramichi region of New Brunswick. The Hutchinson Brook flowing into the Miramichi River with Douglastown Elementary School building in background. Church Street in Chatham. And Texaco gasoline station on King George Highway in Newcastle, with Flett Apartments behind it.

Here are four images of the Peanuts television special, There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown. First airing in 1973, it was shown a number of times in Canada on CBC Television. My most memorable viewing of it was on the evening of Friday, June 17, 1977. And I audiotape-recorded that broadcast to go after an episode of Space: 1999 ("The Beta Cloud", I believe) on a C-90 "compact cassette", and was listening to that audiotape-recording while laying on my stomach on the bed of my room in my Douglastown home one sunny late spring Sunday afternoon. I most specifically recall hearing Linus talking to Charlie Brown about grades, detailing very cogently the unending cycle of toil in human existence, prompting a, "Good grief," from Charlie Brown, as they were walking from school up a long street to their homes. Later, Charlie Brown, Sally, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie walk into a supermarket adjacent to an art museum designated as the destination of their schools' "field trip", and think that the supermarket's inventory items are "pop art" exhibits in the museum. And Peppermint Patty insults Charlie Brown with some very indelicate words. Then, she has to make amends. It was an apt television special to air in mid-to-late June, as the happenings in it were occurring in the final semester of a school year. I do not believe that I saw There's No Time For Love, Charlie Brown again on television after that.

Here is a quintet of images of "The Last of the Cybernauts...?" An episode of the British espionage and science fiction/fantasy television series, The New Avengers, that was made in 1976 and in 1977 and aired in Canada on the CTV television network. In "The Last of the Cybernauts...?", a double-agent exposed by heroes Steed, Purdey, and Gambit and caught in an inferno of car crash while trying to escape them, uses a cache of super-strong humanoid robots, and a shell of steel constructed around himself, on his initiative of vengeance upon the Steed, Purdey, and Gambit trio. I remember watching "The Last of the Cybernauts...?" on a weekday evening in July of 1977.

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