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Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City

Look out, Winnipeg, here come the beach boys

Sep 11, 2022
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Winnipeg Beach rollercoaster - 1919-1967. Photo - Internet Archive

Man oh man oh man. How lucky can a kid get. Living right across from the boardwalk, the beach, the amusement park – and that rollercoaster… There’s Jimmy Grabowski’s bedroom window out behind parents’ shop on Main Street, Mike and Nellie’s Barber and Beauty Shop. “Every May long weekend,…

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