The series of rotating strikes at BC Liquor Distribution Branches would have been good news years ago for bootleggers, but, laments Laverne Bouley, "These darned private stores have put us out of the liquor business. However, we do have a sideline in bootleg recordings. Want a tape of Bob Dylan singing at his nephew's bar mitzvah?"
The LCB dispute reminded us of a brewery strike in Vancouver during a hot 1960s summer. This occasioned the publication in Vancouver magazine of "How I Survived the Beer Strike," written under the nom de six-pack of Manville Rathborne III.
As we remember the story, the desperately parched author, encouraged by his housekeeper, Mrs. McGregor, rode his polo pony onto the Bowen Island ferry, and headed off in search of a cache of Guinness.
If the LCB walkout spreads, it may be time for Rathborne III to saddle up again.
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