Friday, May 28, 2010

Oak Bay Teaparty - June 5-6

OK, Max is old enough that we are considering going to the Oak Bay Teaparty.   It has been a LONG time since I was last at the teaparty (link is to some info on the new US movement that stole the name, Oak Bay should sue).

The last time I went was in 1988 with Steve Holland and Phil Hoover.   We came armed with a tape recorder and were investigating the use and abuse of tea in Oak Bay for our late night radio program The Anarchist Teaparty - the link has nothing do with our show of the time.  Actually the most professional part of our show were the posters Rob Passingham did for us, in writing this I am wondering how to get a hold of Rob and see if he has any posters left from that time.

The piece we aired was medium funny - us asking the organizers about tea as if it an illicit substance.  That, along with everything else we did over three years on the show, has been lost.  

I will post some pictures of Max and rides and such after the event.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Or the US Tea Party movement should sue Oak Bay considering they're based on the Boston Tea Party which occurred in 1773 and Oak Bay's Teaparty has only been going on for a mere 48 years. Just sayin' . . .

Bernard said...

Last time I checked, the current US tea party has no connections to the 1773 one.

Actually, I have no idea what this US teaparty movement in the US wants in the US, as it seems nothing they say seems to make any rational sense

Mike Laplante said...

Yes, my wife and I have fond memories of taking our boys there when they were young.
It was always followed by Buccaneer Days in Esquimalt where we got to do it all over again, usually the very next weekend.