After 42 years of ownership, Gibbs decided to return his decidedly aged, in places torn and threadbare, faded, yellow Thunderbirds T-shirt to the UBC Bookstore, playfully demanding an exchange.
After 42 years of ownership, Gibbs decided to return his decidedly aged, in places torn and threadbare, faded, yellow Thunderbirds T-shirt to the UBC Bookstore, playfully demanding an exchange. Most of us have a T-shirt relic from decades past, usually stuffed into the dark recesses of a drawer only to slowly fall to pieces or be tossed out by next of kin. But not Mark Gibbs, 62, of Swansea, Wales. After 42 years of ownership, Gibbs decided to return his decidedly aged, in places torn and threadbare, faded, yellow Thunderbirds T-shirt to the UBC Bookstore, playfully demanding an exchange. In a handwritten letter to the bookstore received in early January, Gibbs wrote: "I visited your store as part of the Cardiff college of education rugby tour in 1981. Our trip to Vancouver and Victoria Island (sic) were highlights in my life. Incredible memories were created during that unbeaten tour." (For the record, the Welsh squad defeated the Thunderbirds.
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