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Don't measure up
Don't measure up

Don't measure up

Date9/1/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Don't measure up: City of York Alderman Mike Colle uses a ruler to show the depth of Clovelly Ave. pothole in his Ward 2 - one indication, he says, that York roads don't measure up.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0039670F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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Phobia of the 80s: Comparing their own speed and accuracy with that of computers, people suffering the new phobia find they don't measure up
7/30/1982
Don't tax reading: Saturday Night publisher John Macfarlan among those vigorously protesting a host of current and posed measures they say will hurt their industry
Don't tax reading: Saturday Night publisher John Macfarlan among those vigorously protesting a host of current and posed measures they say will hurt their industry
12/8/1986
Don't even try to remember what distances used to be in miles, say experts on conversion to metric system from old Imperial measure. Instead, they adv(...)
Don't even try to remember what distances used to be in miles, say experts on conversion to metric system from old Imperial measure. Instead, they adv(...)
6/20/1974
Measuring up: David Jolly, 13, suffers from asthma but now goes to the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre school where they teach him how to measure his condition, above, and control it
Measuring up: David Jolly, 13, suffers from asthma but now goes to the Ontario Crippled Children's Centre school where they teach him how to measure his condition, above, and control it
11/8/1982
A laser gun, connected to a computer and set up in a seven-ton truck, is being used at York University to measure pollution and analyze weather condit(...)
A laser gun, connected to a computer and set up in a seven-ton truck, is being used at York University to measure pollution and analyze weather condit(...)
7/9/1975
Hop test: Karen Morgan hops up and down during a test to measure the flexibility of her legs in start of 16-month training program
Hop test: Karen Morgan hops up and down during a test to measure the flexibility of her legs in start of 16-month training program
8/26/1980
Gershon Iskowitz, Toronto painter has set up tax-free prize for a professional Canadian artist who has achieved maturity and a measure of success, and who is still working in his or her field
Gershon Iskowitz, Toronto painter has set up tax-free prize for a professional Canadian artist who has achieved maturity and a measure of success, and who is still working in his or her field
2/21/1985
Happy couple, Kathleen Widdoes and Brian Bedford, will be starring in Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure at Stratford. They consider it an honor to be asked to work at the festival this year
Happy couple, Kathleen Widdoes and Brian Bedford, will be starring in Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure at Stratford. They consider it an honor to be asked to work at the festival this year
6/5/1975
hristmas Ribbon. on this $23,000 Aston Martin symbolizes dealer hn Cox's hope that somebody will buy it as a gift for a loved one. obody's taken up his offer of Christmas morning delivery yet, but other expensive items are being snapped up around Toronto. Jewelry, fur coats an gold toothpicks are big with those who don't insist on sensible gifts. Some teenagers don't mind paying $100 for a gold chain. [Incomplete]
hristmas Ribbon. on this $23,000 Aston Martin symbolizes dealer hn Cox's hope that somebody will buy it as a gift for a loved one. obody's taken up his offer of Christmas morning delivery yet, but other expensive items are being snapped up around Toronto. Jewelry, fur coats an gold toothpicks are big with those who don't insist on sensible gifts. Some teenagers don't mind paying $100 for a gold chain. [Incomplete]
12/13/1972
Doreen MacDonald picked up a toaster from a pile of battered appliances in the Qeen St. E. Soup-to-nuts junk store run by Jack Himself Cohen. One dollar. Himself said. Does it work? Doreen asked. I don't know. Why don't you plug it in and find out? All I do is sell as is. You won't plug it in? No. Doreen paid the $1 and once again proved Himself's credo: I don't polish anything. I learned my lesson when I polished the $25 special finish off a candelabra early in business. Since then I sell everything just as it is. [Incomplete]
Doreen MacDonald picked up a toaster from a pile of battered appliances in the Qeen St. E. Soup-to-nuts junk store run by Jack Himself Cohen. One dollar. Himself said. Does it work? Doreen asked. I don't know. Why don't you plug it in and find out? All I do is sell as is. You won't plug it in? No. Doreen paid the $1 and once again proved Himself's credo: I don't polish anything. I learned my lesson when I polished the $25 special finish off a candelabra early in business. Since then I sell everything just as it is. [Incomplete]
6/13/1972
They don't want static: Paul Chato and Rick Green, right, don't want a hard time, they just want to hold up their half of the successful comedy team, the Frantics, now at Toronto Free Theatre
They don't want static: Paul Chato and Rick Green, right, don't want a hard time, they just want to hold up their half of the successful comedy team, the Frantics, now at Toronto Free Theatre
1/10/1984
Guards on the bus, Super-tight security measures instituted yesterday by strikebound Charterways bus company include security guard who rides on all r(...)
Guards on the bus, Super-tight security measures instituted yesterday by strikebound Charterways bus company include security guard who rides on all r(...)
12/2/1970