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193044501N. P.: Privately printed n. d. ca 1930. 1930. OREGON. First edition. Color pictorial wrappers 6" x 13 1/2" sheet folds to 6" x 3 3/8" 4 panels illustrated map. One side depicts interior views of the hotel and its location in Portland plus three affiliated hotels: Evergreen Hotel Vancouver Lithia Springs Hotel Ashland and Washington Hotel Pullman. The other side provides a two-panel color view of the Multnomah Hotel and a two-panel color map showing the entire Pacific coast. Also information is provided regarding the highway mileage from Portland to the three affiliated hotels. Near fine copy. Privately printed, n. d. (ca 1930). unknown
266 pages. Features: Hotels Around the World - The Roxburghe in Scotland, The Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota, Hotel Royal in Evian-les-Bains, France, Kersefontein Guest Farm in South Africa, Maison Place Royal in Montreal, Udaivilas in India; Penthouse in Key Biscayne; Charles Gwathmey - complex volumes in Bel Air; Faith Popcorn's weekend cabin on Georgica Pond, Long Island; Complex environment in a Chicago high-rise; English country style in the midwest; Chilly minimalist rooms thaw out by the East River; Japanese Fusion - east and west meet in an Okayama compound; Photographer Ellen Graham goes Anglo-Indian in Palm Beach. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
174 pages. Features: Exotic homes around the world; Cher in Malibu; Bali, Mexico, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Hawaii, Japan, Barbados, Marrakech; Nureyev; Raffles Hotel in Singapore. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
290 pages. Features: Special Section on Hotels Around the World - Sossusvlei Mountain Lodge in Nabibia, The Milestone in London, Pansukian on the island of Siargao, Alvear Palace in Buenos Aires, UXU Ranch in Wyoming, Hotel de Russie in Rome, The Carenage Bay on Canouan Island, Spring Cottage by the Thames, andLa Posada de Santa Fe in New Mexico; Robert Redford's Manhattan penthouse; Lakeside in Palm Beach; Modern oceanfront home on Maui; European mood in Mexico City; An 1853 spring house in Texas updated for today; French modernism in L.A.; Winfield House - the American Ambassador's residence in London. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
334 pages. Features: Palace outside St. Petersburg; Los Angeles apartment by Joseph Giovannini; Union of architecture and interiors in the midwest by Sills Huniford; Great Design - Mobility; Four Seasons Hotel in Tokyo; T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings; Meditative retreat overlooking Elliott Bay in Seattle; A modest town house in London; Great Design - Utility; A Bay area home by Hariri and Hariri; Henry Dreyfuss; Valentino's luxurious Rome apartment; Grand Marina Hotel in Barcelona; Oscar Niemeyer's own free-form masterpiece above Rio de Janeiro. Light wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
60 pages. Great black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Akro Agate Co. made Marbles - article with photos; The Grand Old Hotel Del Monte - informative article with photos; Jar Talk - great vintage canning ads and more; British Bottle Bits - internal screw threads, the crown cap, the "Beehive" top, the "Chisel Stopper"; Ninety Years Ago - story continued from last month; Auction Directory; Extra Special Deliveries; 1990 Southeastern Show and Sale -article with nice photos; Up-Dates; Messages; "The Pontil" February, 1965. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Nice photo montage of six female lower mainland agents; Commendation for Excellent service; Industrial Review - statistics for the province; Bar graph of phones in service between 1903 and 1921; When the telephone was a curiosity in the Capital City - nice seven page feature on the history of telephony in Victoria, beginning in 1877; Page of the 1880 Victoria and Esquimalt phone book; Facsimile of letter dated 1878 from the Bell Telephone office in Brantford, Ontario which says Mr. R.B. McMicking has accepted the agency of the company in British Columbia; City of Vancouver gets new phone number; Telephone development keeps pace with progress; Cover photo of the operating room of the Nanaimo exchange; Five-page illustrated article on Nanaimo, including 35 year-old photo of downtown with Bastion visible and an 1890 photo of a portion of the downtown and bowl area; Trouble shooting in Kootenay; The manufacture of porcelain; photo of operators at work in New Westminster; 6-page illustrated feature on New Westminster with mid-90s photo of the Colonial Hotel and area plus a photo of Columbia street before the fire of 1898; Composite cables will be important betterment; Fairmont operating room photo; Great photo montage of the old wooden bridge connecting Nanaimo's Fitzwilliam St. with downtown (the caption mentions E.P. LaBelle, whose name is stamped on the top edge of this book); 11 page feature on the history of telephony in Vancouver, with several photos from before 1900; pulling coils of duplex wire through the mountains by snow shoe(!); Nice photos of the following exchanges - Seymour, Fairmont, Highland, Bayview, Victoria, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Cumberland, Belmont, Duncan, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Colquitz, Ladysmith, Keating, Aldergrove, Abbottsford, Collingwood, Fraser, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Ladner, Kerrisdale, Eburne, Milner, Cloverdale, Steveston, Sidney, Hammond, Mission City, Kamloops, Agassiz, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, New Denver, plus plant headquarters for the Mainland and Victoria; statement of development showing number of operating phones per community; Cover photo of the Foul Bay area of Victoria; More Switchboards for Seymour; Bayview Extension; Centralization of observation equipment; Demo. switchboard for school; Much outside construction; Seven duct miles of conduit laid in Seymour underground; Table showing exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Alexander Graham Bell dies; Oaks Point snap shots; new motor control switchboard; Wireless telophony in early nineties (article); Laying underground conduit in Shaughnessy; New aerial cable across Capilano River; Passing of William Farrell, Company President; Rejuvinating used Plant material in machine shop; a peculiar case of hydrolysis; photo of Georgia street conduit trench; Second Annual Telephone Convention; 1885 B.C. Provincial Directory - article with 1885 photo of Vancouver Harbour; Autobiography of a switchboard plug; photo of burying conduit on Seymour in 1905; Appreciation shown by Port Alberni business men; Long Distance operators usually get their man; 7,000 mile motor trip of B.C. Telephone man; The telephone directory - my favourite book; Map showing routing of two cable between Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo inside the Nelson exchange; Satisfactory growth in past year; Four-page article with photos on prospects for the Kaslo area; 6-page article with photos on 'Modern treatment of the Insane' - the establishment of Colony Farm by the Provincial Government; Photo of enormous fallen tree near Westholme; Table ranking exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls; Statement of Development - la table listing number of phones operating per exchange as at 1 December 1913; Photo montage of three Vancouver Island telephone officials; Company has caught up with its construction work; 7-page feature on Victoria, 'The Pride of the Last West' with great photos; Photo of 'Vancouver's Newest Skyscraper' - a 15-story building under construction at the corner of Hastings and Richards; Telephone Service Excellent; 7-page article with excellent photos of the Britannia Mine; Telephone Cables Underground (in Vancouver); photo of company vehicle; Photo of Port Alberni Exchange; Large photo of the Seymour Exchange under construction (Steel frame erected); 5-page illustrated feature of Port Alberni - the magnetic city on the west coast; The giving of good telephone service; Some transmission problems of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Photo inside Port Alberni Exchange; First teleautograph west of Chicago - at the new Hotel Vancouver; 5-page feature of towns that silver put on map - New Denver, Silverton, Sandon, surrounding which is the Slocan District, in which is located the Standard Mine - photos; Recent developments in telephone transmission; April trouble record in Seymour office; Wonderful photo-montage of Vancouver's business district; First Telephone Switchboard in use in Vancouver, 1885; Before and after photos of Point Grey Road and Powell St.; View of Granville St. from the C.P.R. Depot; Photo of the almost completed Hudson's Bay store; Two great panoramic photos of the Vancouver Harbour, from the water and from the land; Photo of Hastings St. West, looking east; photo of the new Hotel Vancouver; Photo montage of some of Vancouver's fine homes; Photo of English Bay Bathing Beach; large photo of Second Beach, Stanley Park; Photo of the Interurban Depot B.C.E.R.Co.; View of Grand Forks looking west; Photo of the Granby smelter, largest in the British Empire; 5-page feature on Grand Forks; What are the duties of a Wire Chief?; Photos of the B.C. Tel. float as appeared in the Vancouver Pageant; Interior Telephone Extensions - exchanges of Kootenay, Boundary and Slocan to be connected; 1899 Vernon and Nelson Telephone Co. Ltd. phone directory; Operator School photo; Nice photo of the 6 chief operators of the Kootenay District; Where operators are trained - illustrated multi-page article; Personnel of Plant Organization; Marketing Telephone Poles - 2 page article with 2 photos; Operator's School Equipment; Cover photo of public telephone booths at the C.P.R. Depot, Vancouver; Nice photo of the Seymour general public office, Vancouver; Work of the Commercial Department - 6 pages with many photos of personnel; Printing a Telephone Directory; Getting out the Monthly Accounts - 2 photos; Telephony on the battlefield - use in the Russian-Japanese War; Photo in head office in Vancouver; Making the Telephone Valuable; photo portraits of executives William Farrell, George Halse, and o Book
120 pages. Cover illustration of young lady with umbrella and chicks by Elsie Deane. Features: Stylish colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; La Chasse-Galerie - the flying canoe of voyageurs and shantymen, by J.E. Le Rossignol; Nomads of the Sea - story by Beryl Gray; Women in Fascist Italy - article with photos by Lilian Gibson, teacher of English to Il Duce, Benito Musolini; The Challenge of Youth - article by Judge H.S. Mott of the Juvenile Court, Toronto, with photo portrait of the judge; The Female of the Species - story by sapper; The Land of the Rose, by Jean Graham; Music, Art and Drama News of the Month; Camberley's Bride - story by Leslie Gordon Barnard; Miss Helen Sparling, self trained in the world of finance, answers the question "Can Women Be Successful in Business?"; Jean Whitlock writes about the evolution of furniture in the wake of architectural and societal developments; What Easter means to women across Canada - with photos; Mary Louise Orr writes about the various forms of luggage available to travellers; Nice 1-page black and white ad for Plymouth cars; Essex automobile ad; Plans for a large English brick home; Nice colour illustrated ad for Johnson's Wax; Colour ad for Congoleum Rugs; Cute ad for Berry Brothers "Liquid Granite" floor varnish; The Canadian H.W. Gossard Co. ad for women's underclothing; Wonderful colour full-page ad for Hupmobile - the new Century Six and Eight; Gene Tunney golf photo in ad for Nujol; Nice colour full-page ad for Oriental Plush auto interiors - available in McLaughlin-Buick enclosed cars; Anna Pavlowa photos in Cutex ad; C.W. Stokes suggests the creation of a Bureau of Complaints; Dodge Brothers Six ad; Lovely 1-page black and white photo ad for Mercury women's hosiery and lingerie; 1-page Royal York Hotel ad; Willys Knight ad for the 70-B model automobile; Nice colour 1-page ad for Brookfield Butter; Wow! - Great colour centerfold ad for Red Seal Certified Cedar Chests!; 1-page colour photo ad for Puffed Wheat features infant photo of Richard Murphy on sled; Beautiful colour 1-page ad for Studebaker in yellow; Nice black and white one-page ad for Ford Motor Company; Lovely 1-page colour ad for Barrymore Rugs in desert motif; Woodwards "Gripe Water" ad; full-page 2-colour Knechtel furniture ad; Adorable Easter doll clothing cutouts by Grace G. Drayton; Nice colour ad for Crane plumbing fixtures insdie back cover; Colour ad for Parker Duofold pens on back cover. Few short openings to coverfold and cover edges. Address label and faint erasure atop front cover. Coffee stains to back cover and last page. Please Note: page 24-25 have been removed and are not present. They appear to have contained advertising content. Overall, a sound copy of this charming vintage issue. Book
216 pages. Features: Swaths of colour and pattern bathe a traditional family home; Jane Hess mixes period and place, modern with antique; Bringing a refined air to a Florida vacation home; Designer Michelle Crowley-Crawford and rustic living; Hotel Chick checks into the bath; Three professional stylist homes on display; Mary Janigan's shady city plot; Sheer fabric projects; 5 recipes go buffet-style; and more. Small clipping from lower corner of first few pages. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Camp cooks and mail order brides - both were favorite prey of the practical joker!; Mountain lions at Robbers Roost; Santa Fe's delayed hanging - the killers of Frank Chavez; Keelboaters' heyday to doomsday; Suicide at El Paso - the Pierson Hotel; Green and Broke - Fred Chilver and Family/Newton Kansas; Trouble in a (Model)"T"; Utah's Cursed Gold - a cow leads to treasure; The Mystic Healer - Francis Schlatter, German cobbler, entered Colorado's mountains and became a 'Christ-Man"; Fly Specked Billy - Custer, South Dakota; Spirit Spring of the Osage - a shrine of water held in awe by the Indians; Motion Picture Vignettes; They Called it Content (Runnels County, Texas); and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Features: Discovering Dundurn - from local curiosity to National Treasure; Behind the Doors at Dundurn; Ontario's Heritage at Risk - The case of the Eden Mills Bowstring Bridge; Heritage Conservation Tax Incentives in Winnipeg; Hotel Georgia Reopens!; Web of Steel - The Lion's Gate Bridge Turns 60 and survives; Calgary's Lougheed Building Threatened with Demolition; No Retirement for Newmarket Post Office; Historic Winnipeg Leland Hotel Burns; Historic 12-sided Ewen Barn Collapses in B.C.. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
198 pages. Front Cover: Jean Fritz Special Features: The Neglected Art and Science; Displaced Persons - To "Grand Hotel" 1949; Can I Choose the Sex of My Child?; Jan Vermeer 1632 - 1675 (inc. full page colour print of "A Woman Weighing Gold") Profile of Youth: Working School Girl - Muriel Brewer; Living for the Fun of it; How America Lives: How Reno Lives - Benjamin J. Winne; and Meningitis - Still a Danger. Many articles on domesticity, fashion, decorating, food and homemaking (inc. recipes), short stories and poetry. Full page colour vintage print advertising including 'Jeep" Willys Staion Wagon, Curity Adhesive Tape, Coca-Cola, Seven Up, Whirlpool Dryer. Full page black/white ad with Shirley Temple promoting Lux Toilet Soap. Half page colour ad Planters Peanuts (w/ Mr. Peanut). Average wear. Few short openings front and back panels. A sound copy. Magazine
96 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for a red International 100 Pickup truck inside front cover; Nice colour full-page Chevrolet ad on page 3; Full-page colour Corn Flakes ad on page 5 shows boy in beanie eating his cereal; Full-page colour ad for Weston's biscuits; Can Cigarette's Kill You? - by Sidney Katz; How Richelieu Spun His Web, by Thomas B. Costain; Growing Up with Nehrus - A bonus-length feature - "The sparkling Mrs. Pandit of the United Nations is her mother... The enigmatic Nehru of India is her uncle... And she was close to the saintly Ghandi from her infancy - Now this brilliant woman (Nayantara Pandit) tells the fascinating story of how she grew up amid the politics and prison terms that marked the bitter birth of the new India - with several great photos, including one of Ghandi and Nehru; You're In the Movie Business - The National Film Board (NFB), now in a secret struggle with the CBC about who's going to make our TV movies, adds another chapter to its stormy history; In Manitoba Spring Really Does Mean Music - the huge prairie musical competition; Moth-watering Mennonite Meals, by Edna Staebler; The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, by Jacob Hay; CFYK Radio in Yellowknife - where even the kids are disc jockey; The Used Car Kings of the Dazzling Danforth - sixty dealers make 40,000 sales a year - Phil Spivak, Ted Davy, Mason Stiles, Gar Hamilton; Who Says You've Got No Chance? - Toronto Parents get together to prove retarded children can be taught; Deduct the Lesser of the Two - Robert Thomas Allen writes about the Income Tax department; Nice full-page colour ad for the 1954 Monarch automobile; Colour ad for the Chicago Sheraton Hotel; Worcester Lawn Mower Ad; Full-page colour ad for 1954 Plymouth automobiles; Colour full-page ad for the new Meteor Rideau automobile; *Fantastic* two-page colour photo centerfold for General Motors of Canada (GM) featuring samples of Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac - all mobles are huge and colourful, with contemporary female models featured; "Fly TCA Super Constellation to Europe!" - black and white ad; Color part-page ad for Reo Motors Trucks; Colour ad for Studebaker cars inside back cover is missing several chips and a large chunk. Above-average wear. Assorted short periperheral openings to covers. Page 91 loose but present. Average soiling. 5" x 3" pieces missing from upper corner of back cover and last page - no important text affected. A worthy copy of this interesting issue which captures the sense of a time much different from our own. Magazine
68 pages. Features: Editorial - Our TV's Hamstrung Before it Starts; Nice 1952 Monarch car ad; Who is to Blame for the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemic in the Regina Area? - article with photos; The Beautiful Black-and-White Pinto - story by Elizabeth Ann Cooper, illustrated by Jack Bush; The Hotel with the Elegant Air - Manoir Richelieu - article with photos of this hotel on the St. Lawrence at Murray Bay/La Malbaie in Quebec; I Was a Prisoner of the Chinese Reds - Bonus-length feature article with photos of Dr. A. Stewart Allen, a veteran Canadian miissionary who saw friends turn into foes as the poison of communism crept through the soul of a nation he served for 21 years; Sir James Douglas, The Mulatto King of B.C. - a Maclean's Flashback The Courting of Jenny - story by L. Johanne Stemo, illustrated by Bruce Johnson; Hard Rock Miner - Canadians like Dusty Miller blast out one seventh of the world's gols - article with photos; Mickey Spillane's Giving Murder a Bad Name - interview of the famous writer with photos; Nice vintage centerfold ad for Frigidaire refrigerators; O'Keefe's Brewing Company colour ad honouring the Governor General's Horse Guards; Vintage colour-photo ads for the Sunbeam Mixmaster and Sunbeam toaster; Nice Sweet Caps ad; Sisman Scampers shoe ad; Man and His Mate - cartoon by Peter Whalley; Outstanding two-page black and white Buick ad with huge illustration of a 1952 model; Nice Coke ad on back cover shows empty bottles and scattered caps. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
48 pages. Contents include: How Red Refugees get asylum in Halifax; Joe Blasko helps inventors; Terence Robertson - the man who exposed the Suez Plot; Donald C. Rowat - A professor's career as Mr. Ombudsman; Why northern Quebec's Eskimos may have to learn French - even under protest; Feature Article - The Promise of Estrogen for Women; How Canada is building the greatest show on earth - Expo 67 (with photos); How to eat the scenery - painter Jack Humphrey of New Brunswick; Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Last of the Grand Hotels; Feature article on Gordon Sinclair - "Some People are Beginning to Like Him"; Algeria - where freedom rules with fear; Midsummer skiiing on New Hampshire's Mount Washington - colour pictures; How three hard-boiled eggs nearly caused a naval mutiny in World War II; Ralph Hedlin proposes to pay farmers to get off the land. Average wear. Unmarked. Five inch tear to lower corner of colour Coke ad on back cover. A quality copy of this entertaining and informative issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Colour ad for International Harvester ads inside front cover; The Girl Who Had No Talent - Bea Lillie; Gorgeous two-page colour ad for Chrysler's "Mostion-Design" style of wrap-around windshields; The Big Battle of the Big Stores - Simpson's versus Eaton's - article with photos; The Dope Craze That's Terrorizing Vancouver - it has the highest rate of drug addiction in the Western Hemisphere - article with photos; The Squalid Mess in Indo-China - Canada's UN team struggles to help build a democracy while the Reds feel shure they'll get all they want without fighting; Meet Quebec's Most Famous Family - Roger Lemelin's Plouffes; How to Avoid a Third World War, by Bertrand Russell; The Flirtatious Phantom of Montreal - story by Michael Sheldon; Hitler's Car Makes a Comeback - the Volkswagen is crowding world markets - article with great photos; Rexall centerfold ad; Nice purple DeSoto auto ad; Plymouth ad; Pontiac ad; Colour ad for the Detroit Sheraton Cadillac Hotel inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
98 pages. Features: The End of the Great Financial Stimulus Experiment; Iron Jean Chretien - a Liberal Party Fantasy; Presidential expert Gil Troy in conversation; Who doesn't get into Canada? - a new emphasis on applicants from Asia; Federal Liberals utter the dreaded C (coalition) word; $4 Million G20 Fence in Ontario; America's more friendly face; Ronnie Lee Gardner chooses death by firing squad; Translator of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses is under attack; BP's PR disaster; Our Man in South Africa - Hector Vergara; Why are Hollywood films taking over high school math, history, even geography class?; Doctors are urged to get rid of their outdated pagers; Robot fish guides schools of fish from danger; New research to detect lung cancer is underway in Canada and the US; Did Anne of Green Gables have Fetal Alcohoal Syndrome?; Georges Marciano and his Montreal hotel; Fine dining at Vancouver's Cactus Club Cafe; Mark Steyn from Tangiers; In Memoriam - William James John Bleach. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
76 pages. Features: John L. Lewis vs. the People - the man who ran the coal mines in wartime says the U.S. must break the power monopoly of John L. Lewis; Look Out when you Eat Out; What to do in a Fire; Hundred-Year Harvest - Farmers in 72 lands use Massy-Harris equipment; Elizabeth and Philip - Close-up of a Royal Romance; Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh; The Nahanni Valley. Nice colour ads for: The Banff Springs Hotel; Campbell's Vegetable Soup; Stetson Hats; Canada Dry; SOS Pads; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Maxwell House Coffee; Kellogg's Corn Flakes; Good Year Tires; Carling Breweries; Studebaker automobiles. Average wear. Covers partially detached. A worthy copy of this very nostalgic issue. Book
Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle. Full-page Allis-Chalmers ad features a large TS-300 motor scraper working on a Toronto bypass; Champlain - The Man Who Came to Stay - Part One of The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain; Can McCarthy Happen Hear? - This searching study of the U.S. investigating committees and their Canadian equivalents - including the prelude to the Ottawa spy case of 1945 - reveals that Canadians have no cast-iron guarantees against judgement without fair trial - with photos; Brian Boru, by Sean O'Faolain - illustrated by James Hill; The Pulse of French Canada - Montreal's La Presse newspaper; The Happiest Couple in Show Business - dance team Alan and Blanche Lund; The Waiting Lines of Spandau - What's it like to be the wife of a war criminal? - This first-hand report takes you into the homes and hearts of the women - once the elite of Hitler's Germany - whose fight for their husbands' freedom has reached kings, presidents and even the Archbishop of Canterbury - with photos; A Coal Town Fights for its Life - Bloody strikes and stark depression failed to conquer the proud miners of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but now cheaper coal from the U.S., oil, gas and hydro power present new challenges; Edmonton's Log Cabin Ritz - Bob Kashower hated hotels so much that when he turned an old air-force hut into the Airlines Hotel he insisted the guest by king; Nice colour ad for the 1954 Ford Monarch, with a 161-HP overhead valve V-8 engine; Mrs. Delores Dalzell is featured in a Jergens Lotion ad; Nice colour Chrysler ad features the 1954 Windsor De Luxe; Great two-colour full-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN); Colour Trans-Canada Airlines ad features their new Super Constellation service to Europe; Colour ad for the 1954 Dodge; Nice colour ad for "The Newest Oldsmobile in 57 Years"; Full-page ad for the 1954 Ford Consul and 1954 Ford Zephyr; Colour photo ad for the 1954 Meteor Rideau inside back cover; Coke ad on back cover features Eddie Fisher bowling. Above-average wear and external soiling. Middle two pages loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Features: Loaded with British Columbia content! Nice Full-page colour ad for Bulova watches; A Native's Return to B.C., by Pierre Berton; Nice colour photo ad for the 1958 Ford cars; Feature article on Victoria's Government Street, with colour photos; Many B.C.-themed cartoons; The Salty Princesses of the Pacific Coast - B.C.'s Princess Boats - article with colour photos; The Douglas Fir - the vanishing giant that built a province; The Rise and Fall of Social Credit - the west's wonder party now seems headed for destruction; What B.C. means to nine of its best artists - many colour illustrations commissioned by Maclean's - works by Jack Shadbolt, Joe Plaskett, Bruno Bobak, Lawren Harris, Gordon Smith, Molly Bobak, B.C. Binning, E.J. Hughes, John Korner; The Truth about the Sasquatch - fiction by Vernon Hockley; Nice colour full-page ad for B/A gas stations; Glamourous colour ad for B-58 Buick; Labatt's '50' ale colour ad; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton - Mt. Royal Hotel; Great full-page black and white photo ad for Canada Mink; Faded Coke ad on back cover shows a mountain scene and people in cowboy hats. Covers detached but present else average wear. Unmarked. Lerner & Williamson 1996. Magazine
Cover art by Franklin Arbuckle depicts jockey card game at Toronto's old Woodbine racetrack. Nice colour White Rose service station ad inside front cover. Colour Buick ad. What's Happening to Cars? - Maclean's asks representatives of six major auto makers. Now We're Finding Out How Children Think, by Janice Tyrwhitt; My Six Furious Years as a City Father, by Charlotte Whitton, former Mayor of Ottawa. How much pain can you stand - some faint at a pinprick while others feel no pain - Georgia Fitzgerald explores this topic; Blair Fraser asks "Who Leads Asia?' - and speculates that China will come out on top of India. The Inter-Galaxy Beauty Contest, by Robert Zacks; Albertans are catching lots of trout - a fish once thought to exist only in clear running water. When Voting Was a High Adventure - a review of when Canadians fought there way to the polls, often sold their votes and sometimes found cheats had stolen the election. Our Wild Atomic City - Elliot Lake - story with photos. Sensational colour ad for DeSoto cars. Colour MobilOil ad featuring 1957 Oldsmobile. Full-page black and white photo ad for the 60-second Polaroid Land Camera. Colour illustrated ad for Toronto's King Edward Sheraton Hotel. Studebaker-Packard black and white photo ad featuring the 4-door Champion model. Interesting colour photo ad by Caterpillar inside back cover extolls the virtues of Ontario's partially completed Highway 401. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A quality copy. Book
80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
52 pages. Features: Nice photo ad for Warner & Swasey Turret Lathes features the McDonald Observatory at Mt. Locke, Texas; American Recognition of Franco Fits into "Stop Hitler" Drive; GoodYear Tire ad features photo of Richard M. Teall of Toledo, Ohio; Swallowing goldfish at Harvard; "Tough Johnny" Torrio faces jail for income tax evasion; Photo of FDR shaking hands with George Washington Carver; Experts forecast Negro return to the Republican fold in 1940; Beautiful one-page color ad for the new Cadillac Sixty Special features a dark blue car in front of hotel; Nice one-page photo ad for Vitamins Plus; Great Britain awakens to Reich Threat of Supremacy - major article with photos of Polish leaders, Danzig Nazi leader Foerster, and more; Nuisance Islands - Japan's Seizure of Spratlys gives her a bargaining point; Spain - Rebuilding - with photo of Julian Besteiro; How U.S. Leads World in Synthetic Chemistry; New malarial problem carried to Brazil by stowaway insect; Large and lovely photo of Katharine Hepburn; Frank Andrea and the television set he has placed on the market - photo with article; Six photos of screwballer Carl Hubbell in action; Hudson car ad; Cy Young turns 72; Marriage of Clark Gable to Carole Lombard; Hitler's half-brother, William Patrick Hitler, arrives in New York; Nice ad for the RCA Victrola; Obituary for Gen. Gerardo Machado, exiled ex-President of Cuba; Making safer safety glass; Intereseting ad for Elliott Addressing Machines; Ford V8 car ad inside back cover; Color-photo ad for Four Roses Whiskey on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy Book
