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Pay now-Wear later. That's the rule for many married women unless they get their husbands to cosign their applications for store credit cards. Many wo(...)
Pay now-Wear later. That's the rule for many married women unless they get their husbands to cosign their applications for store credit cards. Many wo(...)

Pay now-Wear later. That's the rule for many married women unless they get their husbands to cosign their applications for store credit cards. Many wo(...)

Date8/1/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Pay now-Wear later. That's the rule for many married women unless they get their husbands to cosign their applications for store credit cards. Many women feel that they are discriminated against in money matters simply because of their sex. Loans from credit unions and mortgages are other examples.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0015283F
Throngs of serious bargain-hunters armed with credit cards and Christmas cash invade the Eaton Centre yesterday on a mission to seek and purchase marked-down shoes, electronics and leather jackets
Throngs of serious bargain-hunters armed with credit cards and Christmas cash invade the Eaton Centre yesterday on a mission to seek and purchase marked-down shoes, electronics and leather jackets
12/27/1992
Getting started on next Christmas, Christmas cards and Christmas wrappings were on sale at half price today in the department stores and forward-looki(...)
Getting started on next Christmas, Christmas cards and Christmas wrappings were on sale at half price today in the department stores and forward-looki(...)
12/26/1974
Christmas Cards at half price were selling well today in Simpsons and other stores, holding their last Boxing Day sales
Christmas Cards at half price were selling well today in Simpsons and other stores, holding their last Boxing Day sales
12/26/1975
They're doing their Christmas shopping early, Crowds of eager shoppers, looking for bargains in cards for Christmas, 1974, thronged stores today. Some(...)
They're doing their Christmas shopping early, Crowds of eager shoppers, looking for bargains in cards for Christmas, 1974, thronged stores today. Some(...)
12/26/1973
Tough competition: Alan Russell, manager of sales recruiting and training for Hallmark Cards, sifts through 800 applications a year to find likely candidates for 10 posts
Tough competition: Alan Russell, manager of sales recruiting and training for Hallmark Cards, sifts through 800 applications a year to find likely candidates for 10 posts
12/20/1983
Standing at a fruit and vegetable stand covered by a large fringed umbrella, a man in plaid pan ...
In the middle of the night Mario Grecco [i.e. Greco], owner of Greenview Fruit Market at Pape and Danforth, offers a bite of watermelon to Joe Mancini, who's on his way home from an evening of cards. Three markets in the area are open all night selling appeals to cab drivers, gourmet fruits and vegetables to hostesses who'll be busy during the day, and flowers to love
5/29/1974
B. R. Brown general store (later Dempsey Brothers), built by Joseph Shepard in 1860
B. R. Brown general store (later Dempsey Brothers), built by Joseph Shepard in 1860
1888-1921
B. R. Brown general store (later Dempsey Brothers), looking south on Yonge Street
B. R. Brown general store (later Dempsey Brothers), looking south on Yonge Street
approximately 1915
Gloomy forecast: Grocery store owner Jean Deimantis fears many customers will be hard hit if Michael Wilson's new sales tax is extended to include food
Gloomy forecast: Grocery store owner Jean Deimantis fears many customers will be hard hit if Michael Wilson's new sales tax is extended to include food
9/27/1989
Erwin Zimmerman, manager of a Toronto health food store displays some of the many products bought by consumers who are rejecting modern foods processe(...)
Erwin Zimmerman, manager of a Toronto health food store displays some of the many products bought by consumers who are rejecting modern foods processe(...)
8/9/1972
Old-fashioned country store in Ballinafad, a village of 200 persons 10 miles north of Georgetown, has so many items for sale there's barely room for M(...)
Old-fashioned country store in Ballinafad, a village of 200 persons 10 miles north of Georgetown, has so many items for sale there's barely room for M(...)
7/8/1971
Women's wear: Drew Black, manager of the newest Kmart megastore, is happy to say that women's fashion items and big ticket toys are selling very well this year chain-wide
Women's wear: Drew Black, manager of the newest Kmart megastore, is happy to say that women's fashion items and big ticket toys are selling very well this year chain-wide
12/10/1993