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The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house
The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house

The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house

Date7/17/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0090234F
Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
7/17/1981
Happy 105th birthday, mom!, Victoria Booth and her daughter Edna Ford (right) talk on the phone three times a day but they chatted face to face yester(...)
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8/9/1979
Mrs. Ann Fenn, the retired nurse who believes her misison is to operate a boarding house that women on old-age pensions can afford, gives a comforting(...)
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5/1/1967
Back home in Timmins with Canada's only first-place gold medal from the Winter Olympics, skier Kathy Kreiner is applauded by her father, Dr. Harold Kreiner (right), and 1,000 other people in the Community Sportsplex. About 200 well-wishers greeted her at the tiny Timmins airport, others lined the seven-mile road into town. Kathy surprised the ski world by winning the women's giant slalom.
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Huddling in phone booths, pedestrians take refuge today from blizzard that swept in from Illinois, paralyzing highways, Metro roads and streets. This (...)
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Good design .....and bad, More imagination with public, amenities, like the phone booth at left in Chinatown, can add to street design, say the author(...)
Good design .....and bad, More imagination with public, amenities, like the phone booth at left in Chinatown, can add to street design, say the author(...)
6/13/1974
Peek-a-boo: Bell Canada says phone booths at corner of Yonge and Adelaide don't block view of Fleming memorial plaque, and there's no need to move them
Peek-a-boo: Bell Canada says phone booths at corner of Yonge and Adelaide don't block view of Fleming memorial plaque, and there's no need to move them
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Sound of silence, A new, noise-proof phone booth debuts in fron of the Eaton Centre yesterday
Sound of silence, A new, noise-proof phone booth debuts in fron of the Eaton Centre yesterday
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Bell telephone booth, Millions use phone system
Bell telephone booth, Millions use phone system
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Bell telephone thinks of everything - including portable phone booths for Open spectators
Bell telephone thinks of everything - including portable phone booths for Open spectators
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Quick communication: Tom Warner and his ultra-modern cordless phone sit atop a slightly less modern telephone booth
Quick communication: Tom Warner and his ultra-modern cordless phone sit atop a slightly less modern telephone booth
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