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Originally Posted by JET
To answer your question about the Ikea location, it was near the corner of Akerley and Windmill. It is behind the buildings on Windmill, and the entrance was probably on Akerley, but I seem to remember going in the end closest to Dawn St. It's a long one-story building with a faded red roof. I drove past it on Saturday.
Sounds like it was probably open in the mis 70's, but it is hard to accept that Ikea's first location was in Burnside.
Oh well,  |
To my best recollection, Ikea was located in this building at the bottom of Akerley:
http://goo.gl/maps/sI9Ff
Its appearance has changed a lot since then.
BTW, according to Ikea's website, the first store in Canada was in Vancouver:
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_CA/about_i...1960_1970.html
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