Pilot's Hill, Spring 1975

Today a friend dropt off to me a brochure she had put together on "heritage colours" on houses in St John's. One of the photos she had included was a colour slide I took in spring 1975 at the bottom of Pilot's Hill in downtown St John's. She used it to indicate how drab the greens and burgundies and browns were that people used on their houses fifty years ago.

I found the scan of the slide tonight and made this b&w version of it. In b&w you can't see much to indicate how drab the colours were back then.

You can just see the handlebar of my red-and-white three-speed CCM bicycle in the left lower corner. Sigh. It was already twenty years old and third-hand. Someone stole it from my backyard about ten years later; maybe someone is still riding it.