Growing up in Fernie in the sixties meant socializing with friends at the popular Diamond Grill on Victoria Avenue owned by Charlie and Annie Yip. It was like a scene out of TV’s “Happy Days” sitting on smooth vinyl covered seats of booths or on stools along the lunch counter of the restaurant.
You could turn the pages of the miniature jukeboxes on the wall of each booth to select a record title or put in the quarter on the big jukebox by the door to choose the latest hit parade song.
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