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It's boring, actually
It's boring, actually

It's boring, actually

Date5/14/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's boring; actually: Tim Irwin; a window cleaner for 25 years; has some hairy days high against Metro's sky-scrapers. But this job; the Atrium on Bay; he finds dull because it's just one unbroken expanse of glass. Irwin and a crew of four working for Royal Window Clearners will take more than a week to give the Atrium its regular sprucing up.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019668F
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