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RUTH BONNEVILLE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS LOCAL Biz - Asham Curling Supplies Asham Curling Supplies, McPhillips St. Founder, Arnold Asham. (Arnold is out of the country on business at time of photo shoot) Photo of nostalgic curling shoes, 1977 original Asham shoes made in Wpg. These are the shoes Al Hackner wore when his team won the last Silver Broom (now the Worlds) in 1985 in Glasgow. Photos for a two-page Sunday Special, touching on the 40th anniversary of Asham Curling Supplies, one of a handful of dedicated curling stores in the country, maybe the world! Arnold Asham started the biz by making sliders for curlers' shoes in the basement of his home; demand was such that he opened a retail location in 1980 and has been a trend-setter in the sport ever since, coming out with new designs for shoes, brooms, etc. Reporter: David Sanderson Jan 3rd, 2020