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5.0 out of 5 stars
Good dirt, and funny anecdotes!,
By Austin Thomas (Victoria, British Columbia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Eatonians: The Story of the Family Behind the Family (Hardcover)
I liked this book a lot. It's been buried in Amazon's Business section when it's really a social history. There's some great dirt in here, especially about how pissed off catalogue employees were when 9,000 of them got the axe in one day in 1976. My dad was one of them. Loved the Buyer's chapter and didn't know that Eaton's employees actually lost their lives on the Titanic, Athenia, and Lusitania. And the description of how Eaton's Japanese employees scrambled to protect the contents of the Eaton's buying office safe after the 1923 Yokohama earthquake levelled the buying office, is wild. The war chapter is also amazing. Certainly proves that not everyone loved each other among the Eaton family behind the family! Funny stuff about Santa too.All in all a great read! Highly recommended. Pictures are a great touch. Phenix has a nice ascerbic style at times; writes like a man. But her picture on the dustjacket certainly proves she isn't one! (little sexism here, ha!) |
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Eatonians: The Story of the Family Behind the Family by Patricia Phenix (Hardcover - September 24, 2002)
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