Friday, April 29, 2022

Bookmarking old school style

I was browsing the Audels guides some more and came across that Loblaw's receipt* stuck between pages 218 and 219 in the discussion on inserted tooth circular saw blades. 

This particular Loblaw's was located at 1877 Eglinton Ave. W.. I wondered if it was still there?





1877 Eglinton Ave. W. sourced from Google Street Views
No. Today it's Dynevor Furniture & Appliances, and the internet tells me it has been there for at least 50 or so years. So, the Loblaws has been gone for a long time and that receipt is ancient.

The small Loblaws stores which were common in the '30s to '50s seemed to have a common look to them. If you remove the Dynevor signage from the building, and then compare the de-signed structure to the next photo of the Loblaw's at Bathurst and Glencairn in the '50s you can see that the basic features are similar.

Loblaw's at Bathhurst & Glencairn in the 1950s (City of Toronto Archives)
My father worked at a Loblaw's in the '40s, and I thought it was the Bathurst and Glencairn location, but it could have been that Eglinton Ave W. one as they were both fairly close to his house. Clearly some investigation is required.

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*The receipt is printed on paper that is surprisingly heavy weight and feels almost like cardboard.

4 comments:

  1. Too much ink needed to print the year? Or was it a lack of technology!

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    1. Maybe they assumed any returns or complaints would be done within a few days, so they didn't think the year was necessary, thereby simplifying the machine?

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  2. Reminds me of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog from "Arrested Development".

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