Georgia Straight, celebrates 50 years
Vintage 1967
The Georgia Straight newspaper has thrilled, enraged, educated, and enlightened Vancouverites for five decades. But even after all these years, some people remain confused about the name.
It originated over beers in the old Cecil Hotel in 1967. That's when poet and UBC math student Dan McLeod and artists Michael Morris and Glen Lewis settled on Georgia Straight in the hope of generating free publicity.
That's because radio stations of that era often mentioned marine conditions in the body of water known as Georgia Strait.
Many of the early writers and illustrators were keen environmentalists and antiwar activists. One of them, Paul Watson, went on to found the Sea Shepherd Society to save whales and other ocean wildlife. Another writer in the mid 1970s, Bob Geldof, became a household name when he organized the Live Aid Ethiopian famine-relief concerts in London and Philadelphia in 1985.
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The Georgia Straight newspaper has thrilled, enraged, educated, and enlightened Vancouverites for five decades. But even after all these years, some people remain confused about the name.
It originated over beers in the old Cecil Hotel in 1967. That's when poet and UBC math student Dan McLeod and artists Michael Morris and Glen Lewis settled on Georgia Straight in the hope of generating free publicity.
That's because radio stations of that era often mentioned marine conditions in the body of water known as Georgia Strait.
Many of the early writers and illustrators were keen environmentalists and antiwar activists. One of them, Paul Watson, went on to found the Sea Shepherd Society to save whales and other ocean wildlife. Another writer in the mid 1970s, Bob Geldof, became a household name when he organized the Live Aid Ethiopian famine-relief concerts in London and Philadelphia in 1985.
straight.com
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dr. π (pi)
.