framing shop on East 3rd in

B6 - Sunday, December 5, 1982 - North Shore News

FIND A NEED -

“Find’a need then fill it” -
that is the sound advice
given out by the marketing
experts to any young man
wishing to retire before age
35 these days, and it'appears
as though a North Van-
couver man may have done
just that.

Josh Vandemoor had been
running the *:Picture’ .This-

North ‘Vancouver. for, six.
years when “ he began to
notice something: “It struck
me,” he said, “that a lot of
kids were coming in wanting
to get album. covers. framed,
I found that the- very
cheapest I could do it. for
was around $24.00, and that
was too much for a lot of

board, home -one night ‘and
designed Phono Frame. It is

3 :
. ,

THEN

thought of years ago — a
simple, ‘plexi-glass envelope
open on 3 sides, allowing the
owner to slip an album in,
and out, in a few seconds.
All you do then. is put a nail
in the wall.and hang it up.

If you have ever tried to

assemble and frame a4.

breakthrough in itself. -
~“Most of _ today’s’

FILL IT.

Vandemoor said.

Source

great

illustrators have their roots
in album design — record
companies pay thousands of

“dollars for it,-and it is. hidden

away most of the time,”
“Did you
ever notice how people love

- to gaze at the album cover

when the record is being
played? I’m just tapping a
of high quality. art

people.” "picture on_your awn, yoit_that is_aiready in people's.
So Josh took his drawing will appreciate this as a homes.”

. “It came out even better
than I expected,” he-con-

tinued. “Not only is it a very
practical little’ system, it
protects the records too.

Plexi-glass_ reflects light,
doesn't stain, and may even
help in un-warping records.
And they look great.”

Josh and friend/partner
Linda- Plunet plan to do a
limited ‘retail market test on

, the North Shore, but there is

| PAUL’ NENNINGS | to-our
| North Shore Sales ( Of."

o is.
- minor hockey. ‘andan
“avid fly fisherman is a.
‘fifetime resident of West
Vancouver's Dundarave
area. Paul's twenty ae
_oxparience in the interior
andin_.

“commercial real estate

: provide: an excellent.
‘Background for his new
| career in residential real
- estate sales.

’ already interest
‘quarters. A local disco plans:

in other

to use them, and their use
applies: to record stores,
stereo outlets, even radio
stations. The Phone Frame
will retail for around $15.00.

Josh is, to. say the least,

optimistic. “You don't even

have to stick to album
jackets,” he said. “It will do
nicely for anything you want
to frame, even your
favourite centerfold. And if
mom’s coming over for

dinner, just stick in a Bach
album. Just think — now you
can have instant good taste.”

NEWS Photo Ellsworth Dickson
LINDA PLUNET AND Josh Vandemoor hold their classy little invention which, in |
turn, holds your favorite: record albom cover, or whatever you wish to display. And as

they say, you can always'replace the picture simply by removing it and inserting

another.

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