Path: utzoo!lsuc!sickkids!mark
From: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Small backpacks -- old style?
Message-ID: <377@sickkids.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 89 19:11:38 GMT
Reply-To: mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt)
Distribution: tor
Organization: Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
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My venerable old day pack, which has carried many books, groceries,
and other stuff during the past N years, is finally starting to show
its age, and is literally falling apart at the seams.

I went looking for a replacement, only to find that it seems to be
impossible these days to find an exact replacement:  They *all* have
padded straps.  I find this mildly annoying, since (1) they take up
all sorts of pointless extra room if you want to fold it up and stick
it in a suitcase, larger pack, etc.; and (2) if you just want to sling
your pack over one shoulder, nylon straps on a nylon jacket makes for
about as friction-free a contact as you can get, and the pack tends to
slide off ...

I've tried all the obvious places (Mountain Equipment Co-op, Black's,
etc.) as well as a few of the cheap places on Yonge south of Wellesley
that sell the second-rate junk.  No luck anywhere.  Several places even
told me that they feel they would have trouble selling a small pack with
non-padded straps.  (For the record, I know of at least one other person
besides me who prefers this style.)

Does anyone know of any place, anywhere in Toronto, that still carries
this now-seemingly-antique style of pack?  Or someplace elsewhere, that
does mail orders?

Mark Bartelt                    INTERNET: mark@sickkids.toronto.edu
Hospital for Sick Children                mark@sickkids.utoronto.ca
598-6442                        UUCP: {utzoo,utgpu,lsuc}!sickkids!mark