A painting by Bruce Stewart.
Bruce
writes: "The scene is Fraser at
47th Avenue in South Vancouver, May 1960. The neighbourhood's Fraser
Theatre was playing "A Summer Place" and the kids were gathering at
their own 'summer place' -- the nearby Dairy Queen to see and be seen;
'hardrockers' and 'squares' alike indulging in soft ice cream and
strawberry sundaes. Not to mention some 'car envy'.
"This is really a fantasy self-portrait - me
on the back of an (imagined) T-Bird, with a girl from high school days
whom I never really got to know. The 'Bird I found in the back
lane of my Kitsilano appartment and with my 'muse' became the focus of
my vision: a place too soon lost to the inevitable realities to come."
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