Christmas Grand market

[Islandman]

Grand Market (Gran Market) is a community fair characterised by food, street dancing, crafts and music. In the past, the weekend before Christmas and particularly on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, markets all over the island were awash with vendors selling small toys, firecrackers, balloons and sweets of all kinds * pinda (an African word for peanut) cakes, grater cakes and peppermint sticks. Oranges and even American apples were distinctive features of the Grand Markets. Sorrel, chocolate tea and coffee flowed, as did the Christmas carols and a merry banter between vendors and customers. On Christmas Day some markets were decorated with streamers, large accordion-style bells, and balloons. Many were decked out in fancy clothes, including bright hats purchased upon entering the Grand Market. Everyone came to town for Grand Market and the celebrations lasted throughout the day and well into the night.

[Don1]

oh for the good ole days...life was so much better then

[Jangle]

Can you imagine your kids saying today will be their good old days?

[Hortical]

And songs like this from Prince Buster was considered highly offensive in the early 60s!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKVB_8hwqk

[Islandman]

Will be interesting to hear what they say, like :

"Remember we when we growing up our teacher didn't have to keep a sub-machine gun in the classroom?"

OR

"I didn't have a cell phone until I was 10!"

[Don1]

Yes I can...and it's not something I would feel good about

[Bricktop]

Bet yuh Historian was boogeying down to tracks like these back then too...

[Historian]

Lol @ Bricktop

Bet yuh Historian was boogeying down to tracks like these back then too...

Lol. Bricktop ! I was born in the 1960s, boss, and that’s the truth!

Don’t let the title “Historian” fool you. It stems from my passion for history (as in the history of everything).