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Throwback Thursday

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1968.
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“There were some nostalgic moments at Paterson Park Harnessway Saturday night, for the sentimentalists at least,” the Optimist reported on July 24, 1968. “The B.C. Standardbred Breeders Society celebrated the 80th birthday of the historic track during the evening. To mark the occasion, and to illustrate the dramatic growth of their society, the breeders paraded the stallion Actor Abbe hitched to a high-wheel sulkey that was in vogue around 1890.”

The Optimist is taking a step back in time each week with Throwback Thursday. We’ll dig up an interesting item from the pages of the paper’s back issues and post it online. This week we go back to 1968.

“There were some nostalgic moments at Paterson Park Harnessway Saturday night, for the sentimentalists at least,” the Optimist reported on July 24, 1968. “The B.C. Standardbred Breeders Society celebrated the 80th birthday of the historic track during the evening. To mark the occasion, and to illustrate the dramatic growth of their society, the breeders paraded the stallion Actor Abbe hitched to a high-wheel sulkey that was in vogue around 1890.”