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CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)
CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)

CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)

Date8/16/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera trickery makes it look like the tower; at the foot fo John St.; is about to meet its end. The Monarch building is on one of the proposed sites for the opera-ballet house.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0110309F
Firemen reach for the sky yesterday to battle a fire atop the Maple Leaf Mills giant waterfront grain elevators
Firemen reach for the sky yesterday to battle a fire atop the Maple Leaf Mills giant waterfront grain elevators
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Image shows a few grain elevators by the lake.
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n.d.
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8/9/1988
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Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
8/9/1988
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2/29/1992
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Touch of old in the new, When the Bay Theatre is demolished to make way for the Simpson Tower wreckers will take special care of these stones sculptures in the facade
Touch of old in the new, When the Bay Theatre is demolished to make way for the Simpson Tower wreckers will take special care of these stones sculptures in the facade
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STEEL REINFORCING BARS and steel pipe-the backbone and arteries--jut up from the rising CN Tower on the Metro waterfront. Demand for steel is booming at a rate not seen since World War II. Canadian mills are straining at top capacity. One Bay St. analyst says there is no catching up for three years.
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Elevators stopped in Pigott building and other offices
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