Earlier I got to thinking about my first newspaper carrier job and it was with the Vancouver Province in the early 1960’s. I must have been all but 8 years old. I had lasted only 1 day. I did another Newspaper job in 1971 with “The Columbian.” I thought it was called The Columbian because their production plant in 1971 was on Columbia street. Actually it was North Road but I always associated it (erroneously) with Columbia st. Anyway the job I had was working in the production plant and every Tuesday for 4 hours I’d stuff advertisements into Newspapers. I lasted a few months. On one week, we were called into work a weekend all nighter. I received the largest cheque I ever had at the time for $149. At that time $149 was a lot of money. And what did I do with it? Go out and buy records. Ok so why do I bring up The Columbian? Firstly it was the oldest newspaper in BC that lasted for 122 years and closed in 1983. I was 19 years old at the time in 1971. I don’t think buying records was truly my idea at the time though. But I have this mental picture of me working on that particular weekend and getting the cheque later. So I got to thinking about The Columbian and I did a Google search for it and I found an article about how the estate of the Newspaper is handing to the New Westminster museum a treasure hoard of about 8,000 photos and tons of articles from the paper. I thought maybe I might be able to find some photos of the old Bench & Gavel building and other spots in the 1970’s around the Lower Mainland, like Austin Heights school being torn down or the new Courthouse site having its ground breaking ceremony. Maybe even the apartment building I used to live, on the site of the current Douglas College being torn down and a lot of other things.