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It's All There in Black and White: Comox Valley Real Estate in 1961

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1961 was a good year. Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, Joseph Heller's Catch 22 was published, and the Courtenay and District Historical Society officially registered as a nonprofit society.

It was also a year of wonderfully reasonable house prices in the Comox Valley. Take a look back 50 years at this advertisement from the Comox District Free Press newspaper microfilm and have a good drool.