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Office tower done deal Grant Granger
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Tony Antonias still has the original typewriter he used to write the $1.49 day jingle.
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Tony Antonias coined famous jingle Catchy ad campaign for Woodwards inspired by pique of anger Grant Granger
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Life Magazine led Tony Antonias to two loves in his life—advertising and New Westminster—while a pique of anger led to his most notable inspiration. Antonias grew up in Port Pirie, South Australia. As a teenager he got hooked on the advertising game by looking
at colourful ads in Life Magazine. to the United States after listening They were brought to Port Pirie to stories about it from a relative. by sailors on shore leave from “It’s all I heard. Akron, Ohio is American naval ships docked there. where he wanted to go,” chuckles He even developed Antonias. The his own portfolio friend figured the that he parlayed best way to get into into a copy writing the U.S. was via I’d never been so cold in all job at 5DN, a radio my born days. Canada. When he station in Adelaide asked Antonias to in 1948. go with him, he thought “Why not?” “I was paid four pounds a week, They hopped a Pan-Am flight less a sixpence for tax,” recalls and arrived in February 1954. “I’d Antonias of his first ad biz job. never been so cold in all my born A friend desperately wanted to go days,” says Antonias of arriving
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in Vancouver. They found work at the Harrison Hot Springs hotel. After a few months, Antonias went to New West to apply for a job at CKNW. To his delight he was hired and started as a copywriter Jan. 31, 1955. “I was the happiest man that you could imagine.” Antonias didn’t depart NW until he retired Jan. 31, 1995. The station liked his work. So much so they seconded him to ad agencies and stations in Vancouver and across the country. see ‘THAT WAS BIG-TIME MONEY’, A2
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The Downtown New Westminster office tower deal is done. The sale of the eight-storey complex above the city’s new Anvil Centre announced last March became official on Tuesday with the signing of the sale’s closure papers. The office tower was bought by 777 Columbia Street, a company formed for the project, for $36.5 million. The company is jointly owned by Joe Segal’s Kingswood Capital Corporation and the CRS Group of Companies headed by developer Suki Sekhon. Segal and Sekhon put down a $5 million deposit at that time. The agreement called for them to pay another $6.5 million when the sale closed Dec. 30. But the city received $5 million this week. The purchasers are holding back $1.25 million until some “deficiencies” are corrected by the city’s contractor, PCL Construction, said Mayor Jonathan Coté. He added provisions were made for potential holdbacks when the sale was worked out. see ‘THIS PROJECT’, A7