Boans for Service: The story of a department store 1895-1986

by David Hough

Price $39.95

About the Book

For nearly a century Boans was the big shop in Perth. Now it is the stuff of memory and this book brilliantly evokes the story behind the memories. Geoffrey Bolton

Generations of customers remember the white-coated staff who cut cheese and butter so precisely with a piece of wire, the smell of coffee and freshly baked cakes, the magic of the pneumatic sales docket delivery system, the window displays, the bargain basement specials, the marble stairs and the thrill of Father Christmas arriving by train and being delivered by Fire Brigade ladder to the second floor.

This lavishly illustrated book reflects not only the changing face of retail shopping but that of Western Australia itself as it tells the fascinating, ninety-year story of our greatest department store. Boans for Service.

Category

History

Publication Year

2009

Publisher

The Estate of FT Boan

ISBN13

9780646509662

HB/PB

Hardback

Format

Large Format Photographic

Pages

208

Height x Width mm

270 x 200

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