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| What appears to be the business end of a Bryce's Home Made Bread facility |
Longtime readers may recall that back around this time in 2014 I posted some pictures of Bryce's Home Made Bread that my uncle, William Henry Wood, took in the 1940s. While on my current dig through family photos I think I may have unearthed some photos of what appears to be another Bryce's facility.
You might ask why didn't I find these on my first pass through the photos 9 years ago? Because I didn't know what I was looking at, didn't examine them with a magnifying glass, and the photos don't appear to have any organization. They're just scattered here-and-there throughout a variety of albums. I know a bit more now about what I'm looking at in these pictures, so new aspects pop out that I didn't appreciate before.
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| Cropped version of the opening photo |
The connection to Bryce's was clear once I closely looked at the logos on the wagons and truck.
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| The wagon on blocks (on the right) has written on the side: Bryce's Bread |
The wagon on the left doesn't appear to have a company logo, but the one up on blocks to the right does.
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| 'Bryce's Bread' appears on the truck |
The same logo that's on the derelict wagon appears on the truck.
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| A slightly modernized delivery wagon |
The deal was sealed when I stumbled across the above photo.
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| A cropping of the previous photo. That's Mr. Bill Paterson on the right |
The other tip off was the presence of Mr. Bill Paterson as he accompanied my uncle on this audit trip.
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| Outside Bryce's. Left to right: Mr. W. B. Foster, Bill Paterson, William Henry Wood |
In the above photo we also saw Mr. W. B. Foster standing for a portrait outside the other Bryce's Facility.
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| A cleaned up and cropped version of the previous photo |
The next 3 photos give an interesting view of an office inside the building. No PCs, laptops, smartphones, or much of anything we'd associated with today's office life.
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| My uncle with a mountain of paper work |
I suspect the two were having a good time staging the next two photos, but if nothing else you get a good idea of what typical office equipment was like in the 1940s.
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| My uncle again with a lot less paper, and many more office tools. That thing that looks like a tire beside his elbow is likely an ash tray |
And here's Mr. Paterson taking his turn at the desk:
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| Bill Paterson looking concerned |
As I've noted before, the puzzling continues.
[21 Nov 2023 update: I discovered another photo album with annotated photographs. It turns out this facility was located in Calgary, not Winnipeg, and the photos were shot on August 4, 1944.]
I think I see a letter opener atop the papers in the inbox against the far wall. The large object on the desk behind your uncle: an address file? an adding nachine?
ReplyDeleteOn an unrelated note, I like the idea of a huge bakery selling homemade bread. : )
I think it might be an adding machine, and, yes, that's likely a letter opener. I suspect pencils were not allowed and only pens - non leaking ones at that - were allowed for writing in the ledgers.
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