During the 1950s I lived in North Vancouver, Canada. Two of my younger friends reported seeing a bear in the forest. Our parents believed that all bears had been killed off. Even an older brother said that my two friends had just seen a big black dog (wandering in the forest alone? How ignorant!) Gasoline Alley was written in a different time when animals such as bears seemed to have been seen at threats and were killed.
Now-a-days, as I have read, bears that wander from the forest to residential areas in North Vancouver can be scared back to the forest by yelling with aggressive appearing actions. The death of Bear in this series is a very great tragedy. A black cat of mine some years ago was named “Bear” and I even have a large cat with big paws named “Bearpaw”.
During the 1950s I lived in North Vancouver, Canada. Two of my younger friends reported seeing a bear in the forest. Our parents believed that all bears had been killed off. Even an older brother said that my two friends had just seen a big black dog (wandering in the forest alone? How ignorant!) Gasoline Alley was written in a different time when animals such as bears seemed to have been seen at threats and were killed.
Now-a-days, as I have read, bears that wander from the forest to residential areas in North Vancouver can be scared back to the forest by yelling with aggressive appearing actions. The death of Bear in this series is a very great tragedy. A black cat of mine some years ago was named “Bear” and I even have a large cat with big paws named “Bearpaw”.
Jay