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Acme General Woodwork and Davis Junk Company in Vancouver

 
 
Nancy88
 
Reply Thu 29 Mar, 2012 09:12 pm
I read across these two companies in a novel. The companies are both in Vancouver in 1950.

What kinds of business did these two companies deal with?
Can we guess from theie names?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 30 Mar, 2012 01:02 am
First things first: You might say "I read about" or "I came across," but one would not say "I read across."

As for the substance of your question: Woodworking means carpentry, and usually means carpentry requiring a high degree of skill. It would mean people who make furniture, or cabinets, staircases--the kind of working with wood for which one needs skill and experience. A junk company implies someone who picks up discarded items--broken furniture, broken-down appliances, scrap lunber, scrap metal, old bottles and cans--in order to salvage anything useful from them.

In my opinion, it is unlikely that anyone would use such company names, though.
Nancy88
 
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Reply Fri 30 Mar, 2012 02:11 am
@Setanta,
Thank you so much!
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