Re: Bata shoe museum

[Robert Fulford <robert.fulford@utoronto.ca>]

The Bata Shoe museum, to which Jeremy Smith referred, was founded by Sonja 
Bata, wife of the head of the Bata shoe corporation, an international conglomerate 
that was run from Czechoslovakia in the pre-communist period, then from Toronto 
for some decades.  The museum opened 2 years ago in the centre of Toronto.


On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:27:48 -0500 Jeremy Smith wrote:

> From: Jeremy Smith <jcs@grove.ufl.edu>
> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:27:48 -0500
> Subject: Bata
> To: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> By coincidence, there is a 'Bata Shoe Museum' in Toronto.  It probably has
> nothing to do with the matter at hand, but I thought I'd mention it since
> it's in, well, Toronto.  I searched on Metacrawler and found that 'Bata'
> seems to be a pretty popular surname.  My guess is that Bata is/was a
> film maker.
> 
> -J
>