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- North Shore News

Mews. Viewpoint

Film city

at P&T?

t may be a whole new ball game at the Park &

Tilford site, languishing for the past two years as a

non-productive white elephant, its once famous gardens derelict and weed-choked.

This negative spectacle, together with the absence of any industrial bidders for the presently industrial- zoned property, has hitherto prompted the NEWS to urge fair consideration by North Van City council of

the commercial application as a shopping mall. That

to develop part of the site projected development by

BCED Corp., currently before the Advisory Planning Commission, would produce a considerable number of jobs and a significant addition to City tax revenues, as well as restoring and maintaining the gardens at no

cost to the public.

However, the enthusiasm now being expressed by two top Hollywoood executives for the possibility of turning the property into a major film production cen- tre puts a new face on the whole matter.

Film production already

contributes $140 million a

year (and counting!) to the B.C. econoiny. It is a “‘clean’’, relatively labor-intensive industry ideal for the North Shore and would, of course, leave the pres- ent zoning intact. Also envisaged is a combination of the restored gardens with siudio tours as a tourist at- traction on the model of Hollywood’s Universal and

MGM studio tours.

A firm proposal from Hollywood has yet to come. If or when it does, there are still potential problems with

tax incentives and studio

building heights. But the

concept is an attractive one and deserves a positive approach.

Computer-

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PARTIES IN THE HOME aren’t what they used to be. Ask my friend Cameron, the computer whiz.

What Cameron and his IBM Compatible have discovered could come in mighty useful for your own Yuletide entertaining.

Some years ago Cameron, an eternally hospitable soul, began to notice an increasing problem with parties: how much booze to buy, and what kind? .

Back in the good old days it was easy. Viriually everyone, including gtandma, knocked back rye. En- thusiastically. You simply counted your number of guests and divided by two. That told you how many bottles of rye you needed. To which all you added were two or three cases of beer for the teetotallers.

Food was no problem either. Half a dozen cartons of potato chips and—if you wanted to be classy—a tub of onion dip were all the solid ballast required. A spare pack or two of cigarettes for guests who ran out of their own, plus plenty of ashtrays, and your repu- tation as a host was established.

There’ve been quite a few changes since the carefree fifties and sixties.

Wines from Kelowna, some of them drinkable. Wines with im- pressive names from overseas, aif of them drinkable. Delis selling exotic foreign fodder. Joggers and fitness spas, Anti-smoking

crusaders. Road blocks and breathalyzers. Bit by bit life has been getting more and more com- plicated for red-blooded party- givers.

Last summer Cameron bought a personal computer to help him

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Guests, decided the computer after the last one departed, stayed an average of 3.78 hours, during which each downed an average of 3.02 drinks.

The hard liquor brigade (62% with 44% in the over-55 age

bracket) still dominated, but no

Noel Wright

cope with his mounting hospitality headaches. He programmed the thing just in time for his Labor Day party. Quitting the festivities every half hour to run down to the den and punch in the latest scraps of data was a bit of a drag, but with computers you have to give in order to get.

The picture of 1986 honte enter- taining which the machine even- tually spewed forth was thought- provoking.

The party was one of those 8 p.m. affairs with 57 guests. Sexes

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longer with good old rye. A mere 9% of the company consumed a miserable 0.9 of a bottle of grandma’s favorite tipple.

Scotch topped the list with 30% of the revellers downing 3.2 bot- tes, followed by gin (15% finishing 1.5 bottles). Vodka and rum trailed, each the choice of on- ly 4% for totals of 0.3 of a bottle respectively.

Of the remaining guests, 34% quaffed 5.7 one-litre bottles of white wine and a single bottle of red. The other 4% mopped up a

Dear Editor:

It is with considerable personal regret that | must advise you that Palmer Davis’ oldest client, the Bank of British Columbia, has moved its advertising account to West Can Cole & Weber on a 90 day trial basis.

The advertising agency change occurred when the Hong Kong Bank of Canada acquired the assets and assumed the liabilities of the Bank of British Columbia in November. Palmer Jarvis was ad- vised of the change on Dee. 2.

modest five beers plus several of the 14 bottles of non-alcoholic mixers.

The food was a dramatically different story, Mrs. Cam having finally persuaded hubby that chips and dip were out—gourmet was in. Three hundred canapes from a ca- terer, reinforced by Mrs. Cam’s succulent smorgasbord of do-it- yourself fancy breads, pastas and cheeses, disappeared faster than Canadian famine-relief corn in Ethiopia.

And the only polluting whiff of cigarette smoke the whole evening came from the den, where Cameron took a quick surrep- titious drag while filing the latest data. Afterwards everyone drove home as sober as the judge they weren’t going to have to face.

Total bill for supplies consumed, announced the computer: food $243.98; booze $114.52. Surplus unused liquor, wine, beer and Players Extra Light $246.77.

A far, far cry from the dear old smoke-filled party days of rye and

chips—though at feast Cameron °

hasn't had to visit the grog shop again since September.

So thank him, dear readers, for your up-to-the minute computeriz- ed Christmas party plan. Put away the ashtrays. Take out a bank loan for the deli. And maybe add just an extra bottle of Scotch and Kressmann to whatever's in your liquor cupboard already!

The Bank of British Columbia advised us that the change was in keeping with the new owners’ past relationship with West Can Cole & Weber. The bank's marketing management also informed us that they have been pleased with Palmer Jarvis’ program develop- ment and marketing support.

The bank group at Palmer Jarvis is proud of the past 16 years. We felt part of the small team that had the vision of a bank serving the needs of western Canadians. We developed programs which saw the Bank of British Columbia grow

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(From the North Shore News, December 9, 1981.)

A TAX HIKE as high as 43% for North Van City residents was forecast in the provisional 1982 budget, tabled at council’s inaugu- ral meeting. Mayor Jack Loucks blamed the projected increase on all-round higher costs for materi- als, labor and services. * s * WORST STORM EVER in Howe Sound, with rain and 80 m.p.h. gale winds, claimed the life of a pregnant woman swept away by rampaging Strachan Creek when it flooded Lions Bay homes. Other evacuated residents had to be rescued by hovercraft. . * *

RASH OF HOLDUPS at late- night North Van gas stations con- tinued, with an armed robbery at a Main and Mountain Highway sta- lion bringing the five-day total to three such incidents—two of them, said police, carried out by the same

man. ‘oH &

RECYCLABLE GARBAGE pickup by a private firm in two West Van districts was halted after a 19-month experiment.

from its beginnings to assets of three billion dollars; and when times got tough for all western Canadian financial institutions, we helped the Bank of British Colum- bia defend its retail deposit base.

Palmer Jarvis is a western- Canadian owned and ope-ated organization with billings of 40 million dollars. West Can Cole & Weber is a wholly owned sub- sidiary of Cole & Weber Advertis- ing of Seattle, Washington.

Frank W. Palmer Vancouver