Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice composition OTT - Bureau de Tabac aka tobaconist?s shops still feature a sign that we call a carrot bureau de tabac carotte <https://www.google.fr/search?q=bureau+de+tabac+carotte&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj7x5T4odDrAhWDxYUKHYW0BaMQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1324&bih=994> Bureau de tabac was also the place where we kids could buy gums and comics - imagine the attractiveness ? ;-) Amities Philippe > Le 4 sept. 2020 ? 21:31, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> a ?crit > : > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information