yesterday -growing up in the crowsnest pass

I was born in 1959 and remember vividly about growing up in Coleman. At that time most kids came from large families their were eleven in ours. However in our neighborhood their was a "small" family of three boys and another that only had one child, that was unusual for the time.To this day i still dont think we realize how hard our parents worked to maintain a household. Our mothers had none of the modern conveniencises or appliances of today. Today i see they have these little gift cards in the drugstore that show you the price of things and what was happening the year you were born. I cannot say they are entirely accurate because a chocolate bar was only 10 cents and a saturday movie with a chocolate bar was under 50 cents well into the sixtys. One of my favourite recollections is the old Toppanos grocery store on what was second street downtown coleman (the building is still there). Our parents would buy our groceries there and then spend the day in town, the groceries would be delivered to the house in that old truck i believe it was a red ford but maybe someone can help me with that. Anyway our parents would send a chocolate bar home with the groceries for each of us. That was very good planning they knew someone would be around to put the groceries away. I would also go into Topanos just before school in the morning to get my hockey cards anxiously hoping he had brought in a new batch of cards. I believe they came in on a certain day of the week maybe someone can help me with that one. Anyway i plan on writing a lot more about this, hope it brings back some good memories for you too.