[LMB] Canadian Tire

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:20:36 -0500 (EST), Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com>
 wrote:


--- alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote re Canadian Tire:


> > They're called that because they started out selling tires -- and then 
> > expanded.
>   

> I really miss the Canadian Tire store that used to be downtown.


> > I wouldn't say that CT was like WalMart. 
>   

They're closer to Western Auto ... do you folks South of the Lakes still have Western Auto? My memories are 40 years old.

> I was pleased to see last week that they also now sell weights
> and exercise equipment. Okay, maybe they have for years, but I
> didn't know.

Decades. Also cheap biking gear, like headlamps and yellow ponchos. (Cheap bikes, too, but that's another story.)


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