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Picking up some fun
Picking up some fun

Picking up some fun

Date5/9/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Picking up some fun: Members of the Pineridge Bluegrass Folklore Society get together at Camp Samac to make at little bluegrass music. They are, from left, Joan Gray on banjo, Jack Johnson on mandolin, Ken MacDonald playing bass, Dan Penney with fiddle and Floyd Lloyd playing guitar. The pickers, and the listeners, meet every second Sunday.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0101541F
Berry picker, If you are lucky enough to know friends who live in the country, or have lush berry bushes, do plead with them to go out picking. It's fun and it's healthy
Berry picker, If you are lucky enough to know friends who live in the country, or have lush berry bushes, do plead with them to go out picking. It's fun and it's healthy
8/3/1967
Fantasy feeder: Star reporter Ellie Tesher and Jack Fine, who stocks up to 25 video games in some of his 23 Bowlerama outlets, have some fun playing one of the sets. In Canada, about 1,200 middle men buy and service the machines, which are leased to tens
Fantasy feeder: Star reporter Ellie Tesher and Jack Fine, who stocks up to 25 video games in some of his 23 Bowlerama outlets, have some fun playing one of the sets. In Canada, about 1,200 middle men buy and service the machines, which are leased to tens
1/26/1982
Scooping business is picking up, - Beagle cleans up what your dog leaves behind
Scooping business is picking up, - Beagle cleans up what your dog leaves behind
3/23/1987
Jackpot!, James Buhariwala, 54 of Toronto, gives the thumbs-up sign after picking up his Lottario jackpot -- a cool $589,169.10 (He also won $5 on a s(...)
Jackpot!, James Buhariwala, 54 of Toronto, gives the thumbs-up sign after picking up his Lottario jackpot -- a cool $589,169.10 (He also won $5 on a s(...)
9/17/1979
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
The wax man: Willy Nelson shows how his hot wax application for picking up spilled oil can sop up oil sludge, held in his right hand, and turn it into a waxy misture, in his left hand, solving an environmental crisis
5/11/1989
Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night, with winds gusting up to 60 m
Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night, with winds gusting up to 60 m
8/30/1970
B.C. band Loverboy did it again this year at the Junos, picking up Album and Group of the Year prizes
B.C. band Loverboy did it again this year at the Junos, picking up Album and Group of the Year prizes
4/5/1983
Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)
Picking up a rose, Susanna Hartel shows what she can do with the plastic battery-powered hands she was fitted with six months ago by the Workmen's Com(...)
3/23/1977
A Big broom sweeps into Sunnyside, A mechanical scoop rumbles along Sunnyside Beach picking up assorted debris today as a volunteer task force of men (...)
A Big broom sweeps into Sunnyside, A mechanical scoop rumbles along Sunnyside Beach picking up assorted debris today as a volunteer task force of men (...)
5/8/1971
Picking up the pieces
Picking up the pieces
6/3/1985
Mayor Crombie gets a lift. Mayors Pierre Benoir (left) of Ottawa and Art Phillips of Vancouver surprise Toronto Mayor David Crombie by picking him up (...)
Mayor Crombie gets a lift. Mayors Pierre Benoir (left) of Ottawa and Art Phillips of Vancouver surprise Toronto Mayor David Crombie by picking him up (...)
5/6/1973
Jackpot Jig, Jong Suk Kim, 35, jumps for joy yesterday after picking up $4,940,254
Jackpot Jig, Jong Suk Kim, 35, jumps for joy yesterday after picking up $4,940,254
5/12/1989