Expo 67

So today it has been 40 years since we had Expo in Montreal. It’s all over the news here, in the Gazette and on the TV. Those days it was so nice, there was so much love between everyone, the French and the English. And this Mayor Drapeau he opened the expo and the metro on the same day, and people started taking the metro around. We were talking, memories, Ezy worked there and Vera worked there. Vera used to work in a souvenir shop, I think she worked in two places. And Ezy took a job, we used to make fun of him. He was supervising the people that were cleaning the bathrooms, we made so much fun of him.

There were 110 pavilions and 50 million people came. It was so nice. The Iranian pavilion, you felt like you were in Iran, and the American pavilion, and the technology pavilion and Grandpa would look and be amazed at the new things that they were just started. Jackie Kennedy came and visited, and they made so much fuss for them, with people visiting and in the uniforms, it was very nice. It was like heaven, we used to go there every evening. The only thing that used to bother us was the line up, there were so many people, we used get tired after visiting just a few pavilions. The people that grew up after that and didn’t see it, they really missed something.