032 - Army & Navy Stores (Canada)

Vancouver Army and Navy Store
photo from http://ryanchen-wing.com/2008/12/19/working-in-aunt-vs-yard-on-my-monday-in-vancity/

Army and Navy Stores (Canada) are still thriving in Canada!

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Army_%26_Navy_Stores_(Canada)&oldid=292276498


It was such a treat to discover an Army and Navy store in New Westminster. It is located next to the Burr Theatre.
For some reason, I assumed the last remaining store was the Calgary location. To my surprise, it appears there are six locations operating: Vancouver, New Westminster, Langley, Calgary, Edmonton South, an d Edmonton Londonderry Mall. http://www.armyandnavy.ca
--Photo by DennisSylvesterHurd
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennissylvesterhurd/3487397114/sizes/l/

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This photo is from Christine R.
http://www.yelp.ca/biz/army-and-navy-department-store-ltd-new-westminster


Photo by JMV
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/2666242627/

The New Westminster store has traditional decor. It has 4 levels and a working escalator. Photo prints of vintage store locations are hung up throughout the store: Vancouver, Regina?, Moose-Jaw, Saskatoon and others. The interior orange and black store signs are new but they retained the classic font. ... what you call "Army and Navy" font.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lilphotodevil/354244857/

Wikipedia says the location used to be an Eaton's store. There doesn't appear to be any Eaton's atmosphere at all. The shelving and color scheme and merchandising are classic Army and Navy.

Other Army and Navy links:
http://collectionscanada.ca/mailorder/029006-150.1-e.php?uid=029006&uidc=CollectionCd&sk=31&&&&PHPSESSID=kv7bg03hakugj2p6obu70p3p05

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/catalog/cat2401e.shtml#1247636

http://www.axionet.com/bcreport/web/990913f.html

031 - Tower1 of Trays

Tower1 of Trays
From Dec2008 to June2009
This is the first stack of trays that Steven and I built:

Here are the rest of the pics:
http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss4/jcpma/20090602vTrays/

030 - gasoline update 2009-06-09 final

gasoline update 2009-06-09 (**final)

The last price change, a 2 cent decrease, happened on May 28 (twelve days ago).

↑ 3 cents| On 2009-06-19 I noticed the gas price at "Safe-way" and "Co-op" was increased 3 cents from
$ 0.969/Litre to $ 0.999/Litre



** note: this is the last gasoline price update for Calgary

029 - Puck Monster hand held electronic game by Gakken

Puck Monster hand held electronic game by Gakken

This is the international version of the North.American table top electronic "Pac-man"

http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Gakken/Puck.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuxapYRrxEk

028 - the definition of WASP

the definition of WASP

This posting is for my toy friend (grammar?) Outdoor Josh.
On an older radio broadcast of Terry O'Reilly's advertising program, The Age of Persuasion, the demographic term WASP was used. When I seen Josh I asked him if he knew what it meant. He thought it could mean White and Socially Priveleged, definitely not White and Sexy Person. I had taken some advertising classes in skool, but I forgotten what the term WASP stood for.

Josh was very close! Here is the term from dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wasp) :

WASP
  /wɒsp/ Pronunciation [wosp] Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
–noun
1. a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
2. a member of the privileged, established white upper middle class in the U.S.
–adjective
3. Waspy.
Also, Wasp.

Origin:
1955–60

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on Google book search (http://books.google.ca/books?id=0f5Grm_DkCoC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=demographic+term+wasp&source=bl&ots=J3OF7ECVAk&sig=hLE2_mp4T6lUb7ZeAcCSlc1Dgq8&hl=en&ei=_9QqSq-EFY_ItAPjkZnvCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#PPA61,M1)
Eric P Kaufmann's book Rethinking Ethnicity mentions the abbreviation: (page 61)
... White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) Americans ...

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so there you have it. probably not the most politically-correct term as it may encompass elements of prejudice, racism & reverse racism.

027 - A woman missed her shark fin soup in Hong Kong 我要食魚翅呀

A woman missed her shark fin soup in Hong Kong 我要食魚翅呀

ok i can't resist.
From a cbc radio broadcast (dnto), I learned of the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVw7entkxg of the chinese woman who missed her flight on youtube. Here is a parody on youtube already: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVfBpMUe4E

I clicked on a related link. And this is even funnier than the airport video. It is funnier because the adjacent customer is laughing, and then at the end of the clip she realizes this tantrum is being recorded.

This lady is having a tantrum because the restaurant ran out of soup!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im7W1AnDmgA ,




(i'm reading the comments on youtube; this sharkfin soup video could have been staged.)

026 - Inouk winter boots

here is my bit on INOUK brand of winter boots


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- I purchased these Inouk brand of winter boots in the early 1980's. I can't remember what store they were from, but I believe they are made in Canada! (Most shoes and clothes nowadays are made in China.) The retailer was either one of these: Woolco, Eatons, Sears, SAAN, MacLeods, Zellers, Kinney, Gallenkamp. I don't believe they were from Army & Navy's department store. My memory fails me.

Check out the neat logo that will be left in the snow by the sole of the boot:


These shoes were put into storage until Autumn of 2008. They were in pretty good shape (Canadian-made quality of course!) but I started wearing them again in a warehouse environment and they are scuffed up now.


The photos are here in Photobucket.com:
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http://s556.photobucket.com/albums/ss4/jcpma/inouk-boots/
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The only website that I found another pair of Inouk boots are here:
http://daggerdebs.blogspot.com/search?q=inouk

(Search engines also point to ebay.com, but the items' auction has already expired or the shoes have already been sold).