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When the Smothers Brothers stepped onto the Grandstand stage at the Ex last night, they were working one of the biggest, toughest spots in show busine(...)
When the Smothers Brothers stepped onto the Grandstand stage at the Ex last night, they were working one of the biggest, toughest spots in show busine(...)

When the Smothers Brothers stepped onto the Grandstand stage at the Ex last night, they were working one of the biggest, toughest spots in show busine(...)

Date8/18/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: When the Smothers Brothers stepped onto the Grandstand stage at the Ex last night; they were working one of the biggest; toughest spots in show business. Over the years it's become known to entertainers as that big stage up in Canada. Here; some of them recall it for The Star.
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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_0112021F
Grania Mortimer, executive stage director of the CNE grandstand show, is confident that this year's performance will fill every one of the thousands o(...)
Grania Mortimer, executive stage director of the CNE grandstand show, is confident that this year's performance will fill every one of the thousands o(...)
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The sceams started 30 minutes before the Bay City Rollers even stepped on the CNE Grandstand stage last night, says Star rock critic Peter Goddard in (...)
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8/22/1977
The Bulova Watch Tower at the Canadian National Exhibition has been closed indefinitely after 16 persons were trapped in the elevator last night for 4(...)
The Bulova Watch Tower at the Canadian National Exhibition has been closed indefinitely after 16 persons were trapped in the elevator last night for 4(...)
4/4/1973
Fan fair, Pop idol Leif Garrett, decked out in skin-tight pants, wiggled and pranced - and sang, of course - at the CNE grandstand last night while te(...)
Fan fair, Pop idol Leif Garrett, decked out in skin-tight pants, wiggled and pranced - and sang, of course - at the CNE grandstand last night while te(...)
8/21/1979
In per-war days the grandstand held crowds like this, drawn from all quarters of the world
In per-war days the grandstand held crowds like this, drawn from all quarters of the world
4/15/1946
Screaming like love-struck harpies, young fans of the Osmond Brothers are held in check by a policeman
Screaming like love-struck harpies, young fans of the Osmond Brothers are held in check by a policeman
8/23/1972
Although the fair is billed as the biggest agricultural exhibition in the world, the highlight of the eight-day fair is the horse show. Heather Calder(...)
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The artistic new entrance to the Electrical Building at Exhibition Park, Toronto, with figures on top representing various stages of the industry's advance
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2/21/1929
Display ad Daily - 1940 During Ex
Display ad Daily - 1940 During Ex
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Ex Park - 1921
Ex Park - 1921
1/1/1921
No let-up: Midnight's Oil's Peter Garrett tramped and goose-stepped from one end of the Concert Hall stage to the other, defending it as if it were the last bastion of sanity in this crazy world
No let-up: Midnight's Oil's Peter Garrett tramped and goose-stepped from one end of the Concert Hall stage to the other, defending it as if it were the last bastion of sanity in this crazy world
5/8/1988
The quiet side of the ex, Johnson Lee, a finger-painter who has appeared on television shows 200 times, demonstrates his art every few hours in the ar(...)
The quiet side of the ex, Johnson Lee, a finger-painter who has appeared on television shows 200 times, demonstrates his art every few hours in the ar(...)
8/21/1975