[Leica] Building in Van Wert
Brian Reid
reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us
Fri Sep 4 12:31:25 PDT 2020
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.
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