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Cleaning up -- and up. Few people disturb Tony Tracy (circled) as he cleans the concrete on the 1,815-foot-high CN Tower yesterday. He's at about 1,40(...)
Cleaning up -- and up. Few people disturb Tony Tracy (circled) as he cleans the concrete on the 1,815-foot-high CN Tower yesterday. He's at about 1,40(...)

Cleaning up -- and up. Few people disturb Tony Tracy (circled) as he cleans the concrete on the 1,815-foot-high CN Tower yesterday. He's at about 1,40(...)

Date6/2/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cleaning up -- and up. Few people disturb Tony Tracy (circled) as he cleans the concrete on the 1;815-foot-high CN Tower yesterday. He's at about 1;400-foot level. In background; are the boat moorings of the National Yacht Club and the Ontario Place marina.
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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_0109843F
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9/22/1976
Fire on the CN Tower. Fire broke out at CN Tower about 2 p.m. today, above observation level, about 1,500 ft. up the 1,815-ft. tower. Thick smoke pour(...)
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July 8, 1975
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8/21/1974
High and wet: James McMahon, 29, beats the heat with a hard-hat of water yesterday as he works to clean the CN Tower's doughnut-shape dome
High and wet: James McMahon, 29, beats the heat with a hard-hat of water yesterday as he works to clean the CN Tower's doughnut-shape dome
7/4/1990
A 54-storey cleaning job, Looking like a giant against the backdrop of a model of the 54-storey Toronto-Dominion Centre, John Szokald cleans the windo(...)
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Inside the cn tower mast, with its varied views of Toronto, is tower painter Tony Tracy
Inside the cn tower mast, with its varied views of Toronto, is tower painter Tony Tracy
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10/1/1982
How many Torontonians does it take to change a light bulb? While thousands of people watched yesterday, the flashing red light atop the 1,815-foot-hig(...)
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10/1/1982
Cleaning-the hard way. A workman at the Cumber Pumping Station on Morningside Ave. cleans filter of a sewage pump with blow torch. The city is finding(...)
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Pattern in concrete holds up 3-foot-thick walls 159 feet high and 2-foot-thick roof in Pickering's containment tower
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Five inches over the designer's height of 1,815 feet, was the decision on the CN Tower by Ross McWhirter, who puts out the Guinness Book of World Reco(...)
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4/2/1975
CN worker Isalino Bettencourt cleans out refuse before return trip
CN worker Isalino Bettencourt cleans out refuse before return trip
9/30/1976