dewline: (canadian media)
Seeing as the Bay's in the process of taking down all the "old" signage featuring "the Bay/la Baie" wordmark with the stylized "B" looking like a ribbon and replacing it with a wordmark more appropriate to the side of a passenger rail car circa 1900 or so - check railfonts.com, particularly their "Railroad Roman" family to see what I mean - I was wondering about this: back in 1965, when the Bay was unveiling that earlier wordmark, there must have been TV ads promoting the then-new corporate identity. Has any of the footage from those ads survived into the present?
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
I was passing through the Rideau Centre en route to the ByMUG meeting - attending said meeting as I type this listening to a discussion about "cutting the cord" - and discovered that not only has the mall's management relocated the food court from level one to level two, specifically to where the ground floor of Eaton's - later Sears Canada - used to be...but they decided that - for reasons as yet unclear to me - Eaton Court, the hub section of the second floor in front of where Eaton used to be in the days when it was a charter tenant of the Rideau Centre, had to be renamed...to Nordstrom Court.

I have a cultural history problem with this choice. Regardless of how and why it happened. I believe it disrespectful of the history of the mall and of Canadian retail history in general.

Not going along with that, thanks!

PS: I'm still calling the football stadium "Lansdowne Park", too. TD-Canada Trust can just live with that bit of rebellion against their marketing plans and methods.
dewline: Quotation: "Don't Yield, Back SHIELD" (SHIELD)
So, someone came up with an idea for a SHIELD-themed hockey jersey. They're not going to try selling it because of legal considerations, but aside from the comment I posted on that page...I have no complaints about the design. ;-)

One thing that it leaves me thinking about: house leagues. My Dad's old office had a "house" league for curling enthusiasts (and both my parents curled, FYI). Given the size of SHIELD as oft-depicted in the comics, I find it easy to imagine there being enough hockey fans in SHIELD to be able to put together a "house" league for that sport. (And curling, too, now that I think about it!)

The logistics of organizing games are...entertainingly problematic, shall we say?

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