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Andrew King Show Prints

 

 

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It was a great time and I will never forget the day. I was at the press and someone came in the office.

I went up and this very distinguished looking man said to me, 'I want to know everything there is to know about show printing,' and he stopped and looked down at me - he was a good sized man- 'and obviously you are not the King that I want to talk to.'

He was a professor with Massey College in Toronto.

I said, 'You need to talk to my grandpa.'

He and grandpa spent three days together. He did give the professor a set of blocks and
you would think he gave the man a million dollars. It was just a prized possession, he was so gratified over it

Our plant was just a block from the train station. I rememebr going to the train station with him and I remember standing at the train and he ordered up a sleeperberth and he put the wood blocks in the sleeper berth and he told the man, 'Is this the same car that will transfer in Winnipeg?'

'No, you have to get another train in Winnipeg.'

'Don't you come in my car, don't you make my bed, don't do a thing. These wooden blocks do not get touched by human hands.'

They made their way back to Toronto and when I was in Toronto, we went to the college, and it was under construction at the time, but we saw the blocks and there is an official King's Corner at the university.

Doug King

 

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