White Rock Beach Greeting Cards & Postcards FOR SALE @ Beaches Swimwear


White Rock Beach Greeting Cards & Postcards are now FOR SALE @ Beaches Swimwear. With 48 pockets – 480 Greeting Cards, & 1,000 Postcards they have the largest selection and are open for business 6 days a week on Marine Drive, at White Rock Beach, BC CANADA. 

From BeachesSwimwear.ca

We specialize in swimwear for Ladies, Men and Children. Over 10,000 swimsuits in stock including many designer brands to choose from. Large selection of cover-ups, bags, footwear, goggles, hats and other beach accessories.  Once you shop at our store, you will not shop anywhere else for a swimsuit so give us a try and have the best experience ever in purchasing the perfect swimsuit for your body type. 

Serving our customers from the same White Rock, BC location for over 30 years, we have the largest selection of designer swimwear in ladies sizes from 4 to 26.  We also carry bra sized swimwear from D cup to JJ cup in bikinis, tankinis, separates and one piece swimsuits. Visit our store for the biggest selection of swimsuits under one roof and our personal fitters will find the right swimsuit for you – guaranteed!   

 We are a swimwear store like no other. Unlike stores offering limited selection in sizes and styles, we offer a HUGE selection of swimsuits for every body shape and size. Whether you are looking for a polyester swimsuit to withstand the chlorine in your local pool or you need that perfect swimsuit for your vacation, or you need a post mastectomy swimsuit, WE HAVE IT. Our customers come from as far as West Vancouver and Chilliwack because they know they will find the right swimsuit at our store. Our personal fitters will ensure that you are 100% satisfied with your swimsuit purchase because we’ve been doing this for over 30 years.

The White Rock Beach Gallery is open weather and time permitting only, but Beaches Swimwear has longer hours & is open more days in a week making them worthwhile for checking out our greeting cards & magnets. The nice people at Beaches Swimwear are supporting us by selling our greeting cards & postcards. Need some new Swimwear for that boat cruise or trip to Hawaii, etc ? Why not come to White Rock Beach and see if they have something you like. It is also a GREAT OPPORTUNITY to explore AMAZING WHITE ROCK and grab lunch or dinner and stroll along Canada’s Longest Pier.

Ric Wallace will have his  10′ x 10′ tent set up west of the White Rock Museum under the Artist Walk program weather & his time schedule permitting.

Below are some of the White Rock Beach Greeting Cards available (subject to change with seasons & space) at Beaches Swimwear @ White Rock Beach.

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Telling White Rock’s Storm of the Century in Pictures and Postcards

Ric Wallace, Artographer & White Rock Beach resident
Tel: (604) 259-0105
VIRTUAL EDGE COMMUNICATIONS
PO Box 75214, RPO White Rock, Surrey BC V4A 0B1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Telling White Rock’s Storm of the Century in Pictures and Postcards

The historic and disastrous storm of the century on December 20, 2018 in White Rock, BC caused millions in damages but LUCKILY spared the lives of White Rock residents and visitors. As an east beach resident and participant in the Artist Walk program on the waterfront, Ric Wallace was seconds away from the action working on his computer. As the storm intensified, he could hear a loud BANG, BANG, BANG of the glass balcony canopy on a neighboring house, and with a camera always at the ready, he ventured out across Marine Drive to get a first-hand look.

While snapping pictures, Wallace tried unsuccessfully to protect his camera and lens from the salt spray and did something no professional photographer would do under normal circumstances: more than once he went into the washroom to dry his lens and camera with toilet paper and under the hand dryer. Venturing back out into the storm, he asked a stranger if she would mind if he used her back as a salt-spray shield, and he continued recording this historic happening as both stills and video. Suddenly another bystander shouted that the boats had come loose and were smashing into the pier.

 

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Wallace rushed west up Marine Drive – the promenade was too risky because of the high waves and debris littering the walkway. He captured on camera the sailboats smashing into White Rock’s landmark pier, acting as crowbars with the force of the waves and wind thrusting the vessels under and up through the pier, lifting the decking that gave the pier its strength. He also watched and recorded the successful rescue of the stranded visitor, who was cut off from the shore by the now missing midsection of the pier.

Knowing that many people would want a keepsake of this moment in history when White Rock’s over 100-year-old pier was destroyed by the Storm of the Century with a wind force likened to a Category 1 hurricane, Wallace has produced a selection of prints suitable for framing, and now has available postcard sets, time-stamped on the back indicating when the photograph was taken, showing the progression of the damage to the pier as well as the dramatic Coast Guard rescue. The waterfront restaurants Moby Dick’s Fish & Chips and Charlie Don’t Surf  both have purchased photo enlargements to display on their walls to share this historic event with their customers for years to come.

Storm of the Century Postcard Sets
$42 Set $55 Set $100 Set $125 Set
Contact Sheets Included With All Sets

The collector postcards will be offered for sale as a set to share the story of the destruction of the midsection of the White Rock Beach pier. There is a 14-postcard pack of the Storm of the Century for $30 and another pack containing the 14 storm postcards plus an additional 10 postcards of the pier and beach in its glory for $40 (before Stormageddon 2018) . There are other collector packs listed online at WhiteRockBeach.ca, which are expected to become highly prized collector items as well.
The postcard sets will come with a Certificate of Authenticity which might make these cherished items for generations to come or investments to be sold online or at auctions in years to come. These postcard sets are for sale online at WhiteRockBeach.ca and WhiteRockPier.ca. They will also be available at the White Rock Beach Gallery (WhiteRockBeachGallery.com) on the west beach waterfront, weather permitting, or people can contact Ric Wallace directly (RICco.ca).

Ric Wallace has been made famous many times for recognizing when an opportunity comes knocking. The BANG BANG BANG he heard while he was working at his computer was the UNIVERSE KNOCKING LOUDLY and telling him to get out and take some photos of this historic event. The universe also rewarded him for his efforts by telling him to register the domain WhiteRockPier.ca which had just become available Christmas morning December 25, 2018.

If climate change experts are correct in their predictions of rising sea levels and stronger storms in the future, a pier that is higher and stronger along with a higher and longer breakwater should be considered to insure that the now estimated $16.2 Million for repairs or replacement of the pier is not wasted money and effort. The White Rock Beach pier is like a part of the family and many memories are tied to it – everything from first dates, weddings, anniversaries, birthday, learning to swim, fishing or snapping award- winning sunrises or sunsets captured from the pier.
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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ric Wallace, Artographer – Tel: (604) 259-0105
Visit WhiteRockBeach.ca or WhiteRockPier.ca