Path: utzoo!censor!perle!david_l
From: david_l@perle.UUCP (David LeReverend)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Small backpacks -- old style?
Message-ID: <838@perle.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 18:32:36 GMT
References: <377@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: david_l@perle.UUCP (David LeReverend)
Distribution: tor
Organization: Perle Systems Limited  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Lines: 42

In article <377@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
>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. 

[Complaints about padded straps deleted.]

>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?
>

About a year ago I purchased such a nap-sack.  It has travelled everywhere
with me ever since.  I never leave home without it.

I bought it at a flea market in Pickering.  Does that count as Toronto?  
This market is held every Sunday at the Metro East Convention Center on 
Brock Road (Street?), just north of the 401.   Look for the traffic-jam.
Get there before 11:00, if this is possible on a Sunday.  Park around back.

The stall in which nap-sacks are sold was in the north-west portion of 
the building.  There were many different styles, and at relatively cheap
prices.  

If the above info. doesn't help you out, all I can give you is the brand
of my nap-sack: World Famous.  Perhaps they are in the phone-book.

By the way, this is a truly amazing flea market, with everything from 
furniture, to organically-grown food, to socket-wrenches.  A great way to
waste a Sunday.  

I assume no responsibility for the accuracy of the above directions.  I know 
how to get there, but I may not know how to give good directions.


Good luck in your quest,

David LeReverend