{"id":340,"date":"2020-06-19T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=340"},"modified":"2020-06-19T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T20:13:15","slug":"that-was-a-while-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"That was a while ago."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It was a while ago. And even then it really wasn’t that good.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I was asked by one of the utilities here in British Columbia<\/a> to take a few photos of some of their properties. I made a fairly large loop (about 600km) and ended up driving down the Fraser Canyon on my homeward leg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandparents lived in Salmon Arm, BC<\/a> and we would regularly drive the 7 hours and visit them. Before 1986 when they built a new highway,<\/a> the only reasonable way up was the road beside the Fraser River<\/a>. Several times a year we would all pile into our car (1977 Chevrolet Impala – quite the machine) and we would make the trek. Once, and only once as I recall, we stopped here for breakfast, as my dad always wanted to get on the road early. It was a Smitty’s Pancake House in Yale, BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first decade of my life I probably traveled this road 30 times. In the following three decades I have been up it three times, as I recall. Wait. Maybe four times. Regardless, it has been a while. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things have changed, obviously. This location has, sadly, closed and the town which always felt somewhat bustling is now very quiet. The food here was really not very good, and I expect that there were a number of factors that involved the closing, but ‘great food, I’ll miss it’ was probably not something that people said much of. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, though, I remember being here once, probably when I was about 8 years old. And I remember it like it was yesterday, almost 40 years later. Even bad meals can do that to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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