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There used to be this little two block area on Robson Street that that they called “Robsonstrasse” this was in… late 60’s going maybe to about 1975 somewhere in there maybe a little bit longer than that. And there were quite a few European places… there was European news on one side of the street. “Vreiber” which was selling delicatessen and stuff when there was hardly any delicatessen… that’s everywhere now but in those days there wasn’t so many.

 
And there was another German restaurant down the street from my dad’s… the funny thing he… instead of calling it something like German restaurant… or some kind of name that referred to German. Instead he called it the “Yellow Parrot”. I don’t where he… whatever name he didn’t like but he changed it to the “Yellow Parrot” and he didn’t emphasize anything German which might have been smart but he didn’t cause the other place was called “The Heidelberg” which made sense… anyway it wasn’t… he just did western food he wasn’t trying to… there might have been some German thing on the menu I don’t remember ‘cause I was pretty small…

 
I was around 12 or something… and that… was kind of fun for me because I went to school in North Van… we lived in North Van and then I would take the bus into town at night… after school. So I would arrive… you know… 4 o’clock in the afternoon or something… 4.30 maybe and hang out at the restaurant and then we’d all go home when the restaurant closed and they were… that was really tough work too.  
 
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