Bill Haley Rocks Around Kerrisdale

[radiofan]

54 years ago today, June 27 1956 Bill Haley & His Comets appeared in Vancouver at The Kerrisdale Arena ...
Rock and Roll comes to Vancouver thanks to Jack Cullen ...


Vancouver Sun ad June 27, 1956

And on June 28th came the reviews ....


Vancouver Sun June 28, 1956


Vancouver Province June 28, 1956


Vancouver Sun June 28, 1956


Vancouver Sun June 28, 1956


Vancouver Sun June 28, 1956


Vancouver Sun June 28, 1956

Thanks to Firedog for sharing these ... and in his words ..

Social and political leaders of the day as well as many of the parents thought that we, as the kids of the day, were all doomed. We sure showed them.

[Russ_Byth]

hah! Great seeing the comments of the 'longhairs'! I wonder what they thought a couple of years later when they knew that Rock n Roll was here to stay!

[cart_machine]

hah! Great seeing the comments of the 'longhairs'! I wonder what they thought a couple of years later when they knew that Rock n Roll was here to stay!

No doubt, classic buff John Avison excepted, the rest of the people quoted were fans in their younger days of either Charleston-playing dance bands or crooners like Rudy Vallee, whom their elders blamed for the same kind of juvenile deliquency.

cArtie.