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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 The Great Airship

2 The Fascination of Main Street

3 Adam Ainslie and His Street

4 Fun and Fear Before Television

5 Beware Gentle Percy

6 Crocodiles in Soper Park

7 Tink Clark Dazzles Leafs

8 Yes, Suh, No, Suh

9 What Winters We Had — Heroics on the Hills

10 A Child’s Christmas on Havill Street

11 Good Cheer at the Station

12 Express Lobsters

13 Taxi

14 The Radio Inspectors

15 Treasured Discipline

16 Slingshot Justice

17 Bedlam at the Funeral Home

18 Cinders Tell All

19 Professor Thiele

20 No Steroids for the Terriers

21 George Recalls Scott’s Opera House

22 The Daring Hespeler Girls

23 Isabella Wilson

24 More About Hespeler

25 A Scare for Hitler

26 All Aboard to See Their Majesties

27 Pop, What’s a Gentile?

28 The Palace and Jane Russell

29 The Great School Concerts

30 My Flying Father

31 Largo for Little Theatre

32 Father’s Obsession

33 The Air Raid Patrol

34 Victory

35 How Roger Ruined the War

36 More About Roger

37 Lucky Eddie Martin

38 More Lore from Bing

39 Our Nutty Dentists

40 Green Nile Compost

41 Dr. Hartman Scuttles History

42 Werstine and Herbert

43 The Raid Next Door

44 Alfie Lee

45 History of Our Morale Decline — It Started in Hespeler

46 The Ballet African

47 The Foxy Lady

48 Preston Hastens the Decline

49 Sin on the Golden Mile

50 Liberated Breasts

51 The Good Guys Gangbuster Pickett

52 The Royal Hespeler Constabulary

53 Heartbreaking Arrest

54 Safety Joe McCabe

55 Len Gaudette — Another Good Guy

56 The Piano Marathon

57 The Wooden-Legged Goaltender

58 Incidental Disasters — Hazel

59 Punished for Rejecting Billy Graham

60 The Discount Fire

61 The Fireproof Inferno

62 The Liberal Disaster

63 The Indestructible Unsafe Bridge

64 A Disaster for the Orange Lodge

65 Great Moments in Medicine

66 The Viagra Moment

67 The G Spot Unleashed

68 The Prostate — Piece of Cake

69 Damn!

70 The Geezer Squeezer

71 Tiddly Anyone?

72 Worst of All — M.S.UR.ATION

73 Almost As Bad — M.DIC.T.ON

74 Alternative Medicine’s Effect on World War II

75 Maturity It’s Called

76 The Devil’s Therapy

77 Alternative Therapy — The Bass Drum

78 The Beat Goes On

79 Amazing Grace

80 Super Seniors Pass the Torch

81 The Inspiration of Art Wilson

82 Ben Graham — Poet at Heart

83 Historic Toilet Seat

84 Victor’s Out the Window

85 An Old Shaggy Drunk

86 A Visit with Pratt

87 Too Busy to Grow Old Quietly

88 Janet of Swamp Angel Street

89 Cliffhanging with IMAX

90 Consider a Miracle

91 Fearful Reverie