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Record wrecker
Record wrecker

Record wrecker

Date7/21/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Record wrecker: Quebec veteran Herve Fillion blasted home first in the Maple Leaf Trot at Greenwood last night with Grades Singing equalling the stakes; track and world record for mares of any age on a five-eighths mile track with a briliant time of 1:57 2/5.
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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_0046998F
The end of the road, Where will it all end, those long files of cars on the expressways? Many of them wind up at the American Auto Wreckers yard on Pa(...)
The end of the road, Where will it all end, those long files of cars on the expressways? Many of them wind up at the American Auto Wreckers yard on Pa(...)
10/10/1972
Glenn Miller played here, but now the wreckers' hammers are leveling Burlington's Brant Inn
Glenn Miller played here, but now the wreckers' hammers are leveling Burlington's Brant Inn
6/5/1969
Wreckers' Bulldozers may soon level proud old Sherbourne St
Wreckers' Bulldozers may soon level proud old Sherbourne St
n.d.
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(...)
8/16/1983
Faneuil Hall Marketplace: Saved from the wreckers and restored, this area is now one of Boston's most popular attractions
Faneuil Hall Marketplace: Saved from the wreckers and restored, this area is now one of Boston's most popular attractions
4/16/1985
Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
11/26/1973
Home wrecker
Home wrecker
12/2/1990
Langdon's Coach Lines (King City, Ontario), bus #11, at Dixie Auto Wreckers, Dundas St
Langdon's Coach Lines (King City, Ontario), bus #11, at Dixie Auto Wreckers, Dundas St
7/1/1955
Going, going...This was all that was left of Jose Gomes' home yesterday as wreckers continued to dismantle the house on Argyle St. that the Portuguese(...)
Going, going...This was all that was left of Jose Gomes' home yesterday as wreckers continued to dismantle the house on Argyle St. that the Portuguese(...)
4/4/1981
Making way for Trees, The wreckers are getting their hammers closer and closer to the proud old name on the old Bank of Montreal building on the north(...)
Making way for Trees, The wreckers are getting their hammers closer and closer to the proud old name on the old Bank of Montreal building on the north(...)
11/25/1975
Andrew smith estate sold. Above is a photograph of the old city registry office, which is now in the hands of the wreckers, who will tear it down in t(...)
Andrew smith estate sold. Above is a photograph of the old city registry office, which is now in the hands of the wreckers, who will tear it down in t(...)
n.d.
Going, going. . . A long-time wrecker himself, Jonsey Reitapple, 83, watches as Tiger Wrecking knocks down buildings at 2478 Eglinton Ave. W., former (...)
Going, going. . . A long-time wrecker himself, Jonsey Reitapple, 83, watches as Tiger Wrecking knocks down buildings at 2478 Eglinton Ave. W., former (...)
8/15/1986