It’s an interesting marketing exercise, undertaken in a market going soft for minivans. The Trans Sport carries the group’s sports-performance banner. The Silhouette comes with haughty airs - a minivan designed to function and look like a limousine. The Venture is the commoner of the group, a pure-bred family hauler. That means GM’s minivans share many of the same parts, but not necessarily the same personality. “Is this something new from Toyota?” one of the spectators asked.īackground: The 1997 Trans Sport is one of General Motors Corp.’s three completely redesigned minivans, including the 1997 Chevrolet Venture and Oldsmobile Silhouette, all of which are built on the same platform. I could have handed out product brochures and were I a Pontiac salesman, I would have - to ensure that everyone knew who made the Trans Sport. More noodle-noodle-doodle-doodle noises as the door slid forward and closed.Ī small crowd gathered, filling the air with “wows” and “gees” and “neats” and “cools” - and “do-it-agains.” But this time, he was yelling: “Can you close it the same way? Can you close it the same way?” I pressed the button. Someone shouted behind me: “Wow! Do it again! Do it again!” It made noodle-noodle-doodle-doodle noises as it opened and slid back. I pushed the button controlling the power-slide door. It happened like this: I was walking toward the Trans Sport SE with two arms of stuff, holding the minivan’s electronic key fob in my right hand. This was a fully-optioned Trans Sport - an extended wheel-base version replete with leather seats and two center sliding doors, including a power-slide door, which caused a commotion. I recently parked it on a West Side street, near Columbia University, in a loading-unloading event. Take the 1997 Pontiac Trans Sport SE minivan. It surprises in what it finds surprising. In January 2005, the paper moved its offices to Market Square on King Street east in Kitchener's downtown core, and on March 11, 2008, the name was changed to the Waterloo Region Record.NEW YORK - This city is the height of banality and excitement. In 1998, The Record was sold to Sun Media Corporation, and then in March 1999, to Torstar Corporation.

Motz died in 1975 and the Motz Family continued to own a controlling interest in the paper until 1990, when it was sold to Southam. The by-then Senator Euler sold his interest to Southam Press in 1953.

In 1928 the paper moved from its home at 49 King Street west to a new building at 30 Queen Street north where it was to stay for 44 years until moving in May 1973 to 225 Fairway Road. In 1948 the Kitchener Daily Record was re-named the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, which name it retained until 1994, when it became simply The Record. The Record’s first staff photographer was Harry Huehnergard, who worked for the paper for 49 years before retiring in 1986 as Manager of the Photographic Department. The weekly Journal ended on May 10, 1924. When Rittinger died in 1915 his share was acquired by William D. Motz remained editor until his death in 1899, at which time his son William acquired his father's interest. The Berliner Journal began in Decemby Frederick Rittinger and John Motz, and was located on Queen Street south, Kitchener.

With that event, the original three daily papers (the News Record, the Berlin Daily Record, and the Daily Telegraph) became one. On Jthe Record absorbed the other daily, the Daily Telegraph. Motz, purchased the News Record and changed the name to the Kitchener Daily Record. Euler (later Senator for North Waterloo) and William J. In 1918 the publishers of the German-language paper the Berliner Journal, William D.

Over the years it had several names and publishers: in January of 1897 it was purchased by the German Printing and Publishing Company and was amalgamated with that company's Berlin Daily Record to become the Berlin News Record, and later still the News Record, all published by William (Ben) V. The Kitchener-Waterloo Record began with the publication of the Daily News of Berlin on Februand was the first daily paper in the area.

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