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Summer in the City.
The crested steel arch of the Granville Street Bridge is 3,900 feet long – and no more than 300 feet into the south end, a sign summed up the two most compelling news stories of the day in two words. Trade Mulroney, said the hand-painted sign in the window of a Granville island apartment.
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A good, strong voice was singing a country blues, Walkin’ After Midnight, at the Pacific Centre courtyard, backed by a slap-bass player. It was, blast from the past, Billy Cowsill, oldest of the seven Rhode Island Cowsill kids, who had a couple of hits in the Sixties and were the models for television’s The Partridge Family. Billy would be 40 now, tall and enduring in dark glasses, cowboy boots and weathered jeans.
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