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My “Eaton’s Scooter!

I can’t remember how or when I decided to buy a motor scooter, but I did buy one!  The T. Eaton Company were offering them in their mail-order catalogue. (Amazon didn’t exist) I was sold that I needed one. It was going to be my “freedom” on the road! Even though I was only 16 at the time (they were more lenient back then), I had my driver’s license plus, I had a job. A part-time one, but a job none the less, and, I had CREDIT! Actually, Eaton’s gave me an Eaton’s credit card, and that’s how I bought the new scooter. Now I was going to be able to fulfill all my dreams and ambitions!

During high school, I had a number of part-time jobs. The first two, as I mentioned before, were “gassing” jobs, Kelmar Marina in Baysville and my brother-n-law’s ESSO station in Toronto. When my job at the ESSO station stopped, that’s when my “ambition” kicked in, and when I decided I needed a “T. Eaton Company mail-order catalogue scooter’!


I think that this is what my scooter looked like. I know that it was able to hold two people (more about that later), and this is the right year, 1961.





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