Climbing up into a 1950s-era logging truck in Port Alberni on Thursday, 84-year-old Hank Bakken said he could almost smell the timber at his back and feel the hillside air rushing by his face after making a life as a logging truck driver.

“Just makes my day. I almost feel like I’m 18 again. It’s quite a feeling,” Bakken told CHEK News.

Now, the Port Alberni retiree volunteers with the Western Vancouver Island Industrial Heritage Museum on 9th Avenue.

It’s a place that brings the past to life, with hands-on exhibits, storytelling and the actual logging machines that put Port Alberni on the map and made it a rich place in the 1950s, when a young Bakken was just starting out.

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