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Restaurant on Danforth Avenue, serving food outdoors, Toronto, Ontario
A waiter dressed in white jacket with black bow tie and long white apron holds a tray with tea pot and spoons. He stands beside a sidewalk table where several men in fedoras are seated in high-backed wooden benches. In background, a shop window is covered in ads that include the statements, Malted Milk shake 10 cents, Buy Ice Cream - made here fresh daily, Fresh Oysters.

Restaurant on Danforth Avenue, serving food outdoors, Toronto, Ontario

Date10/22/1934
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Toronto Star caption: Danforth goes Parisian-sidewalk. In protest against fruit stores, which they allege, clutter up the sidewalks with their wares to the detriment of other merchants, members of the Danforth Business Men's Association, east section, went completely Montmartre to-day and moved their merchandise right out on to the sidewalks. From Greenwood Ave. E., you can buy anything from a shave to a casket without going inside a shop. The boys are lunching in the open and fighting over bargains under the awnings. These photographs give you the situation. (1) Some of the lads call at a café for dejeuner. Overcoats are de rigueur.

Image published in Toronto Star, 22 October 1934, page 19.
Image possibly shows the restaurant operated by John Cheral, 1077 Danforth Avenue, southwest corner of Woodbine Avenue.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113096F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
East-west street:Danforth Avenue
Neighbourhood:Danforth
Province or state:Ontario