Grandpa’s Memory Journal, Entry #9 – How I met your (Grand)Mother

(This entry was originally posted in Facebook in 2016)

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The short answer: Beverly Seafoot and I lived together BEFORE WE MET!

That happened because we both lived at the Wascana Student Housing Co-op when we went to university. This housing co-op occupied a number of renovated old houses on 15^th Ave in Regina. I began living there in the fall of 1967 and Bev moved in in the fall of 1968.

We were kind of aware of each others presence during the fall of 1968. However, after our last day of school before Christmas, Bev’s dad, Bud Seafoot, arrived to take her home for the holiday.

Bev and her dad were having lunch at the cafeteria which was in the “main house” of the co-op. I lived in a different house, but showed up for a late lunch and Bev introduced me to her dad! This was the first time that she had indicated that she even knew my name!

We began dating as soon as we returned from the Christmas break. Oh that was a cold, snowy winter. We walked everywhere for dates. We went mostly to the movie theatre attached to the Regina Inn. We went there because you lined up indoors – just like theatres today.

We started “going steady” on Valentines Day 1968. “Going steady” was the term for an exclusive relationship, as is implied by changing your Facebook status to “in a relationship” in present times!

I believe that this is the first photo of us taken together.

(By the way, granddaughters, grammy says that fashion standards were a little different then and that you should “dress as I say, not as I did!”)

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