# Beach Umbrella

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-umbrella/550044>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 12, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-umbrella/550044 "2010-08-12T15:26:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beach-umbrella/550044/1 "2010-08-12T15:26:43Z")

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After thirty years our canvas top hollow aluminum pole beach umbrella has died. We liked it so much that we hope to replace it with a similar one but all we can find is wood or fiberglass poles. This would be a commercial quality umbrella, not the type you can find in Sam’s Club.