Boy, things sure were different back in the day.
Actor Ryan Reynolds has a lot of his Instagram followers amazed at a throwback photo the Vancouver-born star shared that was clipped from his 鈥渉ometown newspaper鈥� back in the summer of 1980.
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鈥淭his is Ryan Reynolds, 3, and he鈥檚 enjoying the water at Kits Community Centre wading pool. Ryan lives at 2382 Oliver Cr. This playground and others have supervised programs for tots and kids in summer,鈥� reads the caption on the newspaper clipping.
Yes, they did publish this cherubic little boy鈥檚 home address.
Kits, of course, is Vancouver鈥檚 Kitsilano, and the Oliver Cr. address is to the south in Arbutus Ridge. So what 鈥渉ometown paper鈥� would have been so folksy as to share a three-year-old鈥檚 home address?
We鈥檝e been trying to figure that out for ourselves. There鈥檚 the 麻豆传媒映画Sun and Province, of course, covering the city at the time. But the real local stuff, the real 鈥渉ometown鈥� neighbourhood stuff, was primarily the turf of publications like (which was once the Kerrisdale Courier) as well as eventual sibling publication the Westender. Here鈥檚 on the Courier鈥檚 history.
Since V.I.A. is also siblings with the Courier, we stopped by their newsroom to see if the photog鈥檚 name, Shirley Nicholls, rang a bell. Sadly it did not, and our internet sleuthing is coming up dry on this one at first pass.
While we keep trying to puzzle this one out (hey @vancityreynolds, give us a shout!), we can all enjoy the OMG-ness of the published address, the witty quips of the commenters, and the absolute cuteness of local pool-loving 鈥渢ot鈥� Reynolds. Thanks for the throwback, kid!
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