 | | | | Rogers is giving away 250 pairs of tickets for every Toronto Blue Jays home game in the post-season, including their series with the New York Yankees, CBC News reported Thursday.
In 1985, even before the team was guaranteed to finish first in the American League, the ticket office was ready for the playoffs, and the CBC's Steve Paikin got a peek at the Jays' post-season preparations.
George Holm, a manager in the team’s ticket office, showed off a bundle he said was worth perhaps $30,000. “What they are actually going to be worth on the street, I would hate to think,” he said.
The World Series ring Holm wore, seen above, dated from his days with the Cincinnati Reds. | | |  | | | | Highway 86, seen above, was part of Vancouver's Expo 86. It's a lost work of Canadian art that Chris Hampton of CBC Arts recently described as “an open-air pavilion celebrating the history of 20th-century land, air and sea travel.”
Months before Expo 86 opened, CBC’s The Journal gave its audience a preview of the artwork and other attractions at the world’s fair and how the organizers planned to publicize it.
“To make a TV commercial about a fair that’s still under construction, they used computer animation,” reporter Jerry Thompson said. “It seems you can do almost anything with a good enough computer.” | | |  | | | | "Struggle meals" like tuna casserole and Hamburger Helper are trending online, according to CBC News. They’re “inexpensive and simple, often made from cheap items or what might already be in your pantry,” reporter Natalie Stechyson writes.
People were looking for ways to stretch their food dollar in 1962 too. An episode of the seven-part CBC show Making Ends Meet learned one family’s strategy was to buy in bulk. For another, making bread at home saved money.
“If we had more to spend, I think we’d get more wine,” mother of six Lorraine Fairley told host Percy Saltzman when he asked how she’d splurge. | | | |
