A Trip Down Memory Lane 
     
    
   
   
    
     by Sean MacIntosh 
     
    

    
     This page is the first in a 
     
     series which will contain photos 
     
     or articles from a paper in the 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ GEM archives. This specific let- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ter ” Music” and the ad ”Happen- 
     
     ings” were taken from an issue 
     
     of the Cadre dated October 13, 
     
     1972. The Cadre was the name of 
     
     the UPEI Paper in the early Sev- 
     
     enties. 
     
    

    
     The letter has not been type- 
     
     set in order to give you an ex- 
     
     ample of what the paper looked 
     
    
   
   
    
     like in its origional form. Af- 
     
     ter finding the advertisement, it 
     
     took me a while to find out where 
     
     on Earth Montgomery Hall is but 
     
     with the help of Sharon Mullin- 
     
     Zimmerman, Health Nurse Ex- 
     
     trodanaire, I was enlightened. 
     
    

    
     Montgomery Hall now be- 
     
     longs to Holland College but dur- 
     
     ing the early life of UPEI, it was 
     
     part of our campus. I hope this 
     
     col umn will be entertaining. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HAPPENINGS 
     
    
   
   
    
     OCTOBER 14 Square Dance, Pig & 
     
     Whistle in the Barn 
     
     9:3: 30 toxk23730 
     
     Admission: 25¢ Per 
     
     Person 
     
     OCTOBER 19 Ryan's Fancy 
     
     Thursday 
     
    
   
   
    
     OCTOBER 28 - Home Coming Dance & 
     
    

    
     Coctail Hour 
     
    

    
     Montgomery Hall 
     
    

    
     Music by "BIG BROTHER" 
     
    

    
     Semi-formal - $3.00 per 
     
     couple. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MUSIC 
     
    
   
   
    
     When was the last 
     
     time you bought a 
     
     record album in 
     
     Charlottetown or a 
     
     casette or eight 
     
     track tape? When was 
     
     the last time you 
     
     could afford to? I 
     
     am a music lover, I 
     
     am also possessed of 
     
     more money than brains 
     
     As* a: vesult.of .the 
     
     aforementioned afflic- 
     
     tion I quite often run 
     
     rampant in searching 
     
     for records and eight 
     
     track tapes at reduced 
     
     prices. Last year the 
     
     search often yielded a 
     
     decent record or tape 
     
     at a price somewhat 
     
     less than an arm and 
     
     a lég. «This: vear: the 
     
     search to date has 
     
     been futile. -The only 
     
     records that one will 
     
     find in Charlottetown 
     
     at reduced prices are 
     
     albums that never sold 
     
     well because they are 
     
     second rite. “hat I 
     
     mean by seconc rate 
     
     would be say tne 
     
     Dicktown Band plays 
     
     the Beatles. There 
     
     are too many shitty 
     
     albums flooding the 
     
     stores billed as 
     
     astounding buys. 
     
     There is one other 
     
     type of record that 
     
     sells at low prices. 
     
     The country and 
     
     western record is 
     
     always on sale no 
     
     matter what store 
     
     you enter.~- The 
     
    
   
   
    
     stores offer no sales 
     
     on name records. If 
     
     a store in town does 
     
     offer a name record 
     
     for sale at a decent 
     
     price it is quickly 
     
     swallowed up and the 
     
     sale ends. .The store 
     
     is happy because it 
     
     has’ your money in its 
     
     pocket and you have 
     
     your record at "sale 
     
     price" which in case 
     
     you didn't know is 
     
     still roughly ten 
     
     times to twenty times 
     
     the price it cost ‘the 
     
     company to produce 
     
     your plastic copy. 
     
    
   
   
    
     This year I have not 
     
     yet seen even one of 
     
     these "sales". The 
     
     stores in town are 
     
     taking people for 
     
     ridiculous prices. 
     
     The average price 
     
     which you pay for 
     
     (in Charlottetown) a 
     
     recently released 
     
     album is $6.29 give 
     
     or take a few cents. 
     
     If you are fed up 
     
     with these prices 
     
    
   
   
    
     there are not very 
     
     many things that you 
     
     can do. You could 
     
     give up listening to 
     
     records and buy a 
     
     radio, or if you 
     
     have a great deal 
     
    

    
     of money you could 
     
     fly to the places 
     
     where they do have a 
     
     price students can 
     
     afford, or you can 
     
     JOins-arecorda::club. 
     
    
   
   
    
     There are many 
     
     different record 
     
     clubs. The best 
     
     record club for stu- 
     
     dents is one that 
     
     offers discounts and 
     
     none of these "obli- 
     
     gation to buy" 
     
     clauses. Therefore, 
     
    
   
   
    
     avoid the three major 
     
    
   
   
    
     record clubs that 
     
     offer these types of 
     
     plans. (Rumour has 
     
     it they are all run 
     
     by former Nazis who’ 
     
     will have you sent 
     
     to the bottom of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     local river in cement 
     
     sneakers or make lamp 
     
    
   
   
    
     shades out of you if 
     
     you don't make your 
     
     payment regularly.) 
     
     The clubs that are 
     
     better for students 
     
     have a free record 
     
     package to draw you 
     
     but they don't have 
     
     "Obligation to buy" 
     
     clauses. There are 
     
     two of these clubs 
     
     in Canada that so 
     
    
   
   
    
     “far have gone 
     
     National. The oldest 
     
    
   
   
    
     is the Record Club 
     
     of Canada (which I 
     
     belong to though as 
     
     of yet I have not 
     
     taken advantage of 
     
     my membership.) The 
     
    
   
   
    
     newest is, I believe, 
     
    
   
   
    
     called The Discount 
     
     Record Guild of 
     
     Canada. The latter 
     
    
   
   
    
     has emerged here only 
     
    
   
   
    
     since the commencement 
     
     of the last semester. 
     
    
   
   
    
     If you have become 
     
     tired of having to 
     
     trip around looking © 
     
    
   
   
    
     for buys like I have, 
     
    
   
   
    
     join a discount 
     
     record club. 
     
    
   
   
    
     N-B. I have just 
     
     come. from U.P.E.L. 
     
     Bookstore and have 
     
     discovered that they 
     
     have a fairly decent 
     
     selection of new 
     
     records that are 
     
     selling: £for:$5.33 
     
     which is about $1.00 
     
     cheaper than any- 
     
     where else. The 
     
     price was raised I 
     
     know though from the 
     
     $4 - $4.50 that they 
     
     sold for last year. 
     
     Go buy a record at 
     
     your store on campus 
     
     for a while and per- 
     
     haps the stores 
     
     downtown will fuck 
     
     off the prices and 
     
     toss a sale of some- 
     
     body other than 
     
     Charlie Pride and 
     
     The Living Strings. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Doug Gallant 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     => Thursday, October 12 3, 1989 
     
    
   
   
    
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