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N. Van's
best kept
secret __

EVERYBODY has heard of
Main Street. U.S.A. Many
of us know where Main
Street is on Vancouver's city
map.

But like Ray Thomas, owner at
the Tin Shop, says, he has to go tu
great pains to point: out where
Main Street is in North Vancouver.

He directs customers to his new
1392 Main St. location, by explain-
ing it’s ‘the street that runs under
the north side of the Secoud Nar-
rows Bridge. You can hardly so
over the bridge and be unaware
that a street runs there."

Thomas recently moved Me
20-vear-oid sheet metal business
down on Main Stree fron.
Lonsdale and Upper Levels foca-
tion just last May.

“Sometimes moving can be an
invitation to disaster,’ he says.
But Thomas basn’t founa that te
be true.

As for other store owners,
business seems to be flourishing on
the three-block strip.

Richard Strachan, president of
Strachan Computers at 1334 Main,
agrees that Main Street appears to
be “tone of the better kept secrets
in North Vancouver.”

But word is getting around.

Since the day awner Bill Ham-
som opened his company’s doors

Barry’s Capilano West Van Taylormotive Dundarave Son itd mod three Stimes
Automotive Texaco Shell Services Ltd. Shell North Shore Parts has seen steady
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employees to 20.

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used Main St. as an artery fo get
them from North Van to Yan-
couver are now stopping, says part-

Surfside Deep Cove White’s Mountain Service DK’s Discount aman Ken Grant.

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922-6317 929-2812 988-5772 985-5912 987-8025 been “pleasantly surprised’ with
the local retail trade he has picked
up

Dealing largebs in EBM com-
patibles for small business and
home computers, keeping prees
competitive and having plenty of
inventory, as well as having trated
technicians on staff, fave been

definite factors in his growth,
' on m: “New kid on the block’ butcher
. . & _ uw 8 § 0 Guenter Meuller of Meuller Meats,
: ; is B 1484 Main St.. says he can offer
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; idents ina two-mile radius.

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“We push quality instead of

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firde out of the way, our qualiy
goods and speciality ems keep br-
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