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Ron Connort. Filled 60 orders
Ron Connort. Filled 60 orders

Ron Connort. Filled 60 orders

Date2/1/1972
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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_0126077F
Placing order: Computer cuts costs for restaurant co-owner Mostafa El Sayed (above, left), steps to kitchen for waiter Andrews loding, and aggravation for chef Gus Nikoletsos (right) because it prints readable orders
Placing order: Computer cuts costs for restaurant co-owner Mostafa El Sayed (above, left), steps to kitchen for waiter Andrews loding, and aggravation for chef Gus Nikoletsos (right) because it prints readable orders
5/28/1984
Men are fascinated by knives, says Adam Smith. I've wanted to make them since I was 13. Now 24, he's 14 months behind on his orders.
Men are fascinated by knives, says Adam Smith. I've wanted to make them since I was 13. Now 24, he's 14 months behind on his orders.
5/4/1981
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
2/20/1969
Second career: Leander Gohl, 96, still receives orders from across Canada for the quality pine furniture he's been crafting for years in his ancient workshop beside the covered bridge across from West Montrose
Second career: Leander Gohl, 96, still receives orders from across Canada for the quality pine furniture he's been crafting for years in his ancient workshop beside the covered bridge across from West Montrose
5/25/1983
A sprinkling of orders is coming in for group washstation designed by Percy Camp, left, and sold by his son Bryan and a partner. The Thornhill men say the product is competition for a U.S. firm which has cornered the market-making it hard to break in. They blame bureaucracy for slow sales.
A sprinkling of orders is coming in for group washstation designed by Percy Camp, left, and sold by his son Bryan and a partner. The Thornhill men say the product is competition for a U.S. firm which has cornered the market-making it hard to break in. They blame bureaucracy for slow sales.
12/2/1970
Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
Business is Booming, for Laurier Life and here's a deskful of new orders for the company's president, Ernest Brooker. With no salesmen and using only direct-mail promotion techniques, Laurier Life has found a big insurance market in areas - such as older clients - long-established firms sometimes neglect.
3/1/1972
He's optimistic: Economic hard times have cut into the volume of orders, says Canada Colors and Chemicals president Hugh Montgomery
He's optimistic: Economic hard times have cut into the volume of orders, says Canada Colors and Chemicals president Hugh Montgomery
2/8/1982
Felician Sisters Kim Maria, left, and Camillia carefully place the infant Jesus in the hay-filled Nativity scene assembled at the Roman Catholic order's mother house in Mississauga
Felician Sisters Kim Maria, left, and Camillia carefully place the infant Jesus in the hay-filled Nativity scene assembled at the Roman Catholic order's mother house in Mississauga
12/16/1992
Come together: Ron Evason, president of the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada, says many small manufacturers may have to band together in order to succeed in the tough international marketplace.
Come together: Ron Evason, president of the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada, says many small manufacturers may have to band together in order to succeed in the tough international marketplace.
5/26/1982
Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
11/17/1986
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
4/11/1987
Hopeful publisher Dick Bailey, 28, has an idea he feels could enable inventive people to make money by creating new products desired by manufactures. Bailey plans to put out a magazine filled with ads placed by manufacturers giving details of as-yet-uninvented items that they'd like to produce.
Hopeful publisher Dick Bailey, 28, has an idea he feels could enable inventive people to make money by creating new products desired by manufactures. Bailey plans to put out a magazine filled with ads placed by manufacturers giving details of as-yet-uninvented items that they'd like to produce.
6/14/1971