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“What have you done to yourself now?” This thought kept running through my skull like a soundbite infinitely looping. I didn’t have to wait long to find just out what I’d done … When I met the honcho of Bell’s vast regional operations center located in San Rafael, his first question … Continue reading
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I had some time to kill so I decided to check out Vallejo’s Larwin Plaza Shopping Mall when it debuted in the early 1960s. It featured sparkling new shops populated by some of that era’s top retailers, including Sears, Singer, Long’s Drugs and S.S. Kresge. … Continue reading
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“Hey! I hear they’re hiring at Sperry Flour Mill!” “Wow! Really? That’d be a great summer job! Once they hire you, you’ve got a job for life!” “God! I’d love to work there! It’s the best job you can get!” “Yeah, … Continue reading
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After six months or so, The Burnaby Mirror not only survived … it showed signs that it might actually be viable! Part of its vitality was attributable to a significant increase in placements from ad agencies. These ads were pure gravy for newspapers, if … Continue reading
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You may remember in our last episode that we left our young buck in a shoe store refusing to run the ad he’d just spent so much time, effort and energy trying to sell. If the object of his endeavor … Continue reading
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As soon as he left the shoe shop, where he’d professed he could move needy human feet, our erstwhile protagonist headed back to Mirror HQ. Here he related to the always buzzing-with-energy Gord Dancey his progress to date. Gord’s eyes nearly bugged-out of his head as he … Continue reading
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When last we left our unlikely protagonist … yours truly … he’d just walked into a small shoe shop in Burnaby, BC where he unashamedly proclaimed himself to be the representative of 30,000 human feet. He confidently stated that some of those feet needed shoes … Continue reading
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I had to come up with something right now! I’d just walked into a shoe store … this was my first go at selling advertising. I’d just started work for The Burnaby Mirror, a newspaper nobody had every seen. Burnaby, British Columbia didn’t have a newspaper at … Continue reading
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He was more carny than an anything else, and though I’m sure he would have prospered as a carny, that was one of the few things he was not. Gord Dancey was kind of a close cousin to a carny. He was an advertising … Continue reading
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I was fifteen. It was my first job. The hot Vallejo, California summer sun beat down on me, but I didn’t notice. I was gung ho! Eager to get going! I’d joined a crew of about a dozen kids to sell newspaper subscriptions to … Continue reading
FINDING MY WAY 