B11 - Wednesday, February 23, 1983 - North Shore News

A look at a nostalgic Home Show

The big Vancouver Home
and Garden Show opens its
10-day run Friday, February
25 at the PNE with more
exhibitors and more free
features than ever before.

While floor space for this
largest of consumer shows
has been sold out the past
several years, the return to
use of the renovated
Showmart Building and the
introduction of exhibits into

the Agrodome account for
the significantly larger
numbers.

The 1983 edition of the
Home and Garden Show,
subthemed Nostalgia, will be
housed in the North Forum,
Food, Showmart, Rollerland
and Agrodome buildings.

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exhibitors who will be
showing home products
from luxurious room settings
to bon-bons to nuts and
everything in between.

“Many of our exhibitors
will be offering new products
along with some _ great
bargains,"" says Rosalie
Schmidt, who manages the
Home and Garden Show for
Southex Exhibitions.

“They are all optomistic
about 1983 retail sales and
are using the show to kick

They feel that the tried and

true combination of reduced
prices and new products will
attract even the most hard-
nosed of consumers.”

A major exhibitor who
specializes in jacuzzis and
swim pools agrees. “There'll
be bargains like you’ve never
seen before. We'll be telling
people that now is the time
to buy, when the economy is
just starting on its upswing.”

Features this year are a
mix of the popular oddities
along with the new. On the
show stage, Woodward's
fashions will be interspersed
with spoofs by the
firefighters. Albee’s home
fashion sewing and Mary
Kay cosmetics demon-
strations.

Also back are do-it-
yourself shows, UBC
Botanical Garden with its
new theme of food
vegetables, landscaping by
B.C. Nursery Trades
Association, Minter Gar-
dens and Shoppers Market

Place.

The architectural adivsory
service returns after a one-
year hiatus. B.C. Hydro’'s
comprehensive energy
display, featuring the K-car
powered by natural gas, is all
new. So is the old-fashioned
general store which fits into
the Nostalgia theme.

Clowns at Kiddies Kapers
provide a respite for both
children and their parents:
also among the new are
candy-making classes by

UBC and Minter Gardens,
energy experts from B.C.
Hydro with their computer
printouts, swim and pool
water chemistry experts

from Quality Pools and do-

it-yourselfers on interior
decor, home wiring,
bathroom renovation, rec
room building and skylight
and window installation.
Showtimes are 5:30 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m. weeknights, 11
a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Satur-
days, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sundays.

Adult admission 1s $4.50,
children under 12 when
accompanied by an adult 50
cents, and chiidren under six
free. Special admission for
senior citizens is $3.50
weeknights only.

Discount coupons good
for a 50-cent reduction on
the $4.50 adult admission

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of fine chocolates, the
romantic table settings and
the display of old han-

dicrafts. Many of the
exhibitors will dress in
period attire.

The Agrodome is ex-

pected to provide another
i with exhibits
between its twin features:
the 983 square foot modular
home by Britco Structures
Lid. at the north end, fully
furnished and landscaped,
Viny! Villa in the south.

Vinyl Villa, in essence a
house of plastic, is certain to
attract a good deal of at-
tention. Sponsored by the
Vinyl Council of Canada, the
four-room modular cutaway
home features vinyl products
from the exterior siding and
eavestroughs to bathtub,
bed, upholstery, wall-, floor-
and cushion-covering and
window frames.

Dispensing free advice in
addition to architects and
candy-makers will be Hort-
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