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While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.
While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.

While downtown inns suffer through a drastic slump, hotels on Airport and Dixon Rds. are still mostly making money. Dennis Buchanan manages the Hilton, one of 13 hotels along the so-called strip.

Date3/19/1976
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0125663F
The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
The chief engineer of the Toronto Airport Hilton Hotel, Dennis Potter, shows his bed-making skill on a weekend when about 40 of the hotel's 225 jobs were unfilled and a convention was blooked in
10/21/1974
Golden fingers. E. Dee Gold's been playing piano and singing in the Airport Hilton Hotel's Candelelight Room for eight years. Yesterday, she celebrate(...)
Golden fingers. E. Dee Gold's been playing piano and singing in the Airport Hilton Hotel's Candelelight Room for eight years. Yesterday, she celebrate(...)
3/27/1979
The man who ringed the world with hotels, 82-year-old Conrad Hilton, arrived in Toronto yesterday for a quick, one-day trip that could result in a $45(...)
The man who ringed the world with hotels, 82-year-old Conrad Hilton, arrived in Toronto yesterday for a quick, one-day trip that could result in a $45(...)
4/8/1968
The Chelsea Inn: Bill Pattison (left) and his Delta Hotels group was hired to turn a bankrupt development into an economy hotel
The Chelsea Inn: Bill Pattison (left) and his Delta Hotels group was hired to turn a bankrupt development into an economy hotel
10/29/1985
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Hotels and Motels - Inn on the Park
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Hotels and Motels - Inn on the Park
n.d.
Renovator: Juergen Bartels, president of the Ramada Hotel Group, told franchise hotel operators there was no room at his Inn if they didn't renovate. As a result, $350 million (U.S.) has been spent on refurbishing rooms at Ramada Inns across North America, he says.
Renovator: Juergen Bartels, president of the Ramada Hotel Group, told franchise hotel operators there was no room at his Inn if they didn't renovate. As a result, $350 million (U.S.) has been spent on refurbishing rooms at Ramada Inns across North America, he says.
10/4/1982
A clean-up view from the top. The Royal York Hotel is getting a facelift as part of the hotel's $13 million renovation program which will be completed(...)
A clean-up view from the top. The Royal York Hotel is getting a facelift as part of the hotel's $13 million renovation program which will be completed(...)
4/24/1973
Sheila and Arthur Hailey in Scarboro home: He visited 33 hotels for best-selling ''Hotel''?it's airports next
Sheila and Arthur Hailey in Scarboro home: He visited 33 hotels for best-selling ''Hotel''?it's airports next
4/2/1965
Pay too high, Dolly Parton was paid $350,000 a week by the Riviera in Las Vegas last year but few hotels can afford that kind of money these days
Pay too high, Dolly Parton was paid $350,000 a week by the Riviera in Las Vegas last year but few hotels can afford that kind of money these days
8/25/1978
Live entertainment is sweeping the suburbs - from band concerts in the park to the big-name entertainers making up the shower of stars as the Beverly Hills Motor Hotel's Hook and Ladder Club
Live entertainment is sweeping the suburbs - from band concerts in the park to the big-name entertainers making up the shower of stars as the Beverly Hills Motor Hotel's Hook and Ladder Club
2/22/1974
Metro resident only 2 1/2 years, Polish-born Margaret Kanabus, 22, manages an apartment-hotel on Eglinton Ave
Metro resident only 2 1/2 years, Polish-born Margaret Kanabus, 22, manages an apartment-hotel on Eglinton Ave
4/29/1975
Cover has text in varied font type. Decorative illustration of leaves entwined below text on le ...
Muskoka through a camera: an album of the Muskoka Lakes, devoted to a description of the unrivalled beauties of this region, hotel accommodation, railway and steamboat service, fishing, hunting, etc., containing list of hotels, boarding houses, map of the lakes and views of hotels and scenery
1900