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Up here every coach was a Chesterfield !
Mike in NS
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Ken Henderson
wrote:
> Even here in Georgia, "davenport" was the generic name for a sofa (which
> word I don't remember ever hearing as a kid).
>
> Ken H.
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>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Emery Stora
> wrote:
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>> Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts
>> furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to
> the
>> popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a
>> genericized trademark.
>>
>> My mother in Michigan always called any couch she had a “Davenport”.
>>
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Michael Beaton
1977 Kingsley 26-11
1977 Eleganza II 26-3
Antigonish, NS
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