Repository

Burnaby Village Museum

Accession Code

BV992.17.1

Description

display fixture; advertising display fixture; hollow, cast plaster model of a man's sock with a smiling face on the sole; sock is painted brown, black and white; base is painted black, with raised text in red and brown reading: "McGregor / HAPPY FOOT".

Object History

Object was a fixture used in the Jubilee Dry Goods store at 6763 Jubilee Avenue. Jubilee Dry Goods was owned by the Ernest and Jean Pitman family. McGregor Socks is a Canadian hosiery brand founded in 1928. The cushioned sole line of "Happy Foot" socks was introduced in the late 1930's.

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