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Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)
Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)

Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police a(...)

Date7/2/1979
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Original Toronto Star caption: Rowdy rockers. Police on horseback try to control fans lined up outside Exhibition Stadium for Canadian World Music Festival yesterday. Metro police and CNE security staff had their work cut out for them; ducking bottles thrown through the air and confiscating wine; and drugs carried by more than 55;000 fans.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103073F
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
Perched atop a souvenir booth outside the Canadian National Exhibition stadium, this group of rocks fans got a free look at the weekend Festival Expre(...)
6/28/1970
CNE, Exhibition Stadium Canadian World Music Festival
CNE, Exhibition Stadium Canadian World Music Festival
7/2/1979
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
Bracing themselves in defensive stance, police prepare to hold back any charge by scores of gate-crashes at the pop festival. Some of the rock fans sh(...)
6/27/1970
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
Some of the fans at the Heatwave rock festival at Mosport over the weekend look as if they weren't about to be diverted by the music
8/23/1980
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
Flying high at Mosport, one of the fans at the rock music festival soars through the air, tossed from a blanket
8/7/1970
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
Studiously ignored by other restaurant patrons, one of the fans at the Mosport rock festival waits, nude, in line to pick up a snack at one of the food concessions
8/9/1970
Rock fans run into police roadblock
Rock fans run into police roadblock
9/4/1970
Unidentified but obviously happy fans of bluegrass music don't seem to mind the mud that was churned up Saturday after Friday's heavy rain at the Wate(...)
Unidentified but obviously happy fans of bluegrass music don't seem to mind the mud that was churned up Saturday after Friday's heavy rain at the Wate(...)
7/17/1977
A Musical high in the park. A six-hour concert of rock, folk, blues and pop music-the High Park Freee Festival-drew a crowd police estimate at between(...)
A Musical high in the park. A six-hour concert of rock, folk, blues and pop music-the High Park Freee Festival-drew a crowd police estimate at between(...)
5/26/1974
Started in 1944, the Metro Kiwanis Music Festival is the largest amateur competition in the western world
Started in 1944, the Metro Kiwanis Music Festival is the largest amateur competition in the western world
2/21/1974
Rock riders hit police block. Ontario Provincial Police on one of four roadblocks set up around the site of the rock festival north of Orangeville, st(...)
Rock riders hit police block. Ontario Provincial Police on one of four roadblocks set up around the site of the rock festival north of Orangeville, st(...)
9/4/1970
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
Fans of the rock group of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were crowded into Varsity Stadium without a bearable spot to sit down in, reader complains in(...)
9/2/1974