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Article: Going Underground: Art, Labour & Eaton's in Thunder Bay.(Brief Article)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- September 1, 2000
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Throughout my boyhood, every time I visited the big department store with my superstitious mother I dutifully rubbed for good luck the toe of the left shoe of an old bronze guy who turned out to be Timothy Eaton. This was my education into the world of consumer society and social inequality, since my chances of gaining a fortune were surely a matter of luck -- at least that's what we believed in my working class neighbourhood.
Today, as a resident of Thunder Bay on the Port Arthur side, the only semblance of the Eatonian empire that once ruled department stores across Canada is an empty, sign-less store that closed in the fall of 1997, during the early twilight ...