Chris Hadfield, Commander of the International Space Station, has tweeted a picture of Moose Jaw, "The Friendly City," as seen from space. His twitter reads, in part, "Moose Jaw, SK, and the airport where I truly learned how to fly."
That airport would be 15 Wing, which has been training pilots since the 1940s, and is the base of the RCAF Snowbirds.
And while you can see Wing 15--sort of--if you look very closely and concentrate you will also see The Milk Bar next to the Capitol Theatre, Otis Bowes standing in front of the Orpheum, Principal Max Ballard exhorting the Central Collegiate football team ("Play up, Sirs!"), couples arriving at Temple Gardens to dance to the music of Bill Smail's Belbeck Hillbilly Band, Dick Lillico running down Main Street to CHAB before they play his theme a third time, and the student nurses at Moose Jaw General in their starched white uniforms and navy capes.
Thanks to Commander Hadfield (and A. Einstein) time and space come together again.
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Temple Gardens from space, indeed - Font of such gifted musical aggregations as Gene Dlouhy's Orchestra, and Clem Gelowitz, his C melody sax and the Happy Roamin' Rangers.
ReplyDeleteAnd C.H.A. BOO, Meese Jaw, training ground for the irrepressible young announcer who famously interviewed a handful of rural Saskatchewan visitors into a coffee pot in the studio hallway..."We'd like to say hi to Merle and the family back in Smeaton, and we should be getting in on the 6:45 Greyhound tomorrow."
Thanks for the memories!
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