Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Throughout my entire childhood, I was kept supplied with wood cigar boxes for school projects, holding pencils and erasers, and so forth. These cigar boxes all had "Van Wert Tobacco Co" stickers on the bottom. My mother's sister moved from Fort Wayne to Van Wert when she got married, and her family never left. My uncle (Paul "Pete" Brenner, the husband of my mother's sister) owned that tobacco shop, and gave his relatives lots of empty boxes. When I began studying French as a youngster, I was the only child in the class who understood what a "bureau de tabac" might be.