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The Yonge-Bloor subway station (above) 'looks like a vast urinal with no relief
The Yonge-Bloor subway station (above) 'looks like a vast urinal with no relief

The Yonge-Bloor subway station (above) 'looks like a vast urinal with no relief

Date2/21/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: The Yonge-Bloor subway station (above) 'looks like a vast urinal with no relief.'
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0085193F
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Subway Elvis plays a song at the Yonge Bloor subway station, which is where the people are
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Subway Elvis Mike McTaggart plays a song in Yonge-Bloor subway station, which 16-year-old Grade 11 Etobicoke student says is where the people are
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Just another rider, TTC Chairman Julian Porter watches the crowds during yesterday's morning rush hour at the Bloor-Yonge subway station. Porter, who (...)
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4/22/1968
Action urged: David Macdonald, director of Ottawa's African famine-relief program, shows areas of Sudan visited by a Canadian fact-finding delegation to Sudan, as Stephen Lewis, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, looks on yesterday
Action urged: David Macdonald, director of Ottawa's African famine-relief program, shows areas of Sudan visited by a Canadian fact-finding delegation to Sudan, as Stephen Lewis, Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, looks on yesterday
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Denis Bouchard, above, looks like a movie star with nostalgic tastes. At his salon on Carlton St. he wears army fatigues, a Viyella shirt and black leather nose-pickers from Courage My Love.
Denis Bouchard, above, looks like a movie star with nostalgic tastes. At his salon on Carlton St. he wears army fatigues, a Viyella shirt and black leather nose-pickers from Courage My Love.
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Dynamite found: Police don't know where dynamite sticks they seized on Monday came from, but they warn youngsters to stay away from anything that looks like above picture
Dynamite found: Police don't know where dynamite sticks they seized on Monday came from, but they warn youngsters to stay away from anything that looks like above picture
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There'll be no parking available for commuters around this new subway station at Bloor and Islington Aves
There'll be no parking available for commuters around this new subway station at Bloor and Islington Aves
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