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Andrew Dowler, Glad you use dial, For people who want something for nothing, we let our fingers do the walkin' and came up with these essential telephone numbers.
Andrew Dowler, Glad you use dial, For people who want something for nothing, we let our fingers do the walkin' and came up with these essential telephone numbers.

Andrew Dowler, Glad you use dial, For people who want something for nothing, we let our fingers do the walkin' and came up with these essential telephone numbers.

Date9/17/1979
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126798F
Images of a woman with a 1920s flapper hairstyle, wearing a black dress with a white collar. Sh ...
Do you know how to use a dial telephone?
Approximately 1920
Startled motorists think be's outs when they bear security man Mark Carter sitting at a stoplight, singing and clicking his fingers, but most drive off with a smile. Mark, a 26-year-old native of Barbados, feels Metro people are much too glum and take life too seriously. You start singing, you feel better, he says.
Startled motorists think be's outs when they bear security man Mark Carter sitting at a stoplight, singing and clicking his fingers, but most drive off with a smile. Mark, a 26-year-old native of Barbados, feels Metro people are much too glum and take life too seriously. You start singing, you feel better, he says.
6/1/1977
The élite directory and club list of Toronto, containing names and addresses of prominent residents on the most fashionable streets of the city. Numerically and alphabetically arranged in two complete lists. The at-home days of our leading hostesses with telephone numbers. Also the full membership of the principal clubs and a large amount of other valuable information
The élite directory and club list of Toronto, containing names and addresses of prominent residents on the most fashionable streets of the city. Numerically and alphabetically arranged in two complete lists. The at-home days of our leading hostesses with telephone numbers. Also the full membership of the principal clubs and a large amount of other valuable information
1894
Handling Royal calls while train is in Toronto, The flying fingers of these three Toronto telephone operators will flip plugs and switches on the swit(...)
Handling Royal calls while train is in Toronto, The flying fingers of these three Toronto telephone operators will flip plugs and switches on the swit(...)
5/15/1939
The Dvorak keyboard shown above can keep up with your fingers, the old keyboard we all learned on was made to be slow
The Dvorak keyboard shown above can keep up with your fingers, the old keyboard we all learned on was made to be slow
7/6/1984
Let it be: With fingers firmly crossed, a SkyDome usher watches in the ninth inning last night after the Blue Jays' Tom Henke relieved starter David Cone to preserve a win over the Oakland A's
Let it be: With fingers firmly crossed, a SkyDome usher watches in the ninth inning last night after the Blue Jays' Tom Henke relieved starter David Cone to preserve a win over the Oakland A's
10/8/1992
Fingers do the talking
Fingers do the talking
1/1/1981
On the road back: Ian Phillips, 30, who lost in legs and eight fingers in a skiing accident, is recuperating at Toronto's West Park Rehabilitation Hospital before returning home to Calgary
On the road back: Ian Phillips, 30, who lost in legs and eight fingers in a skiing accident, is recuperating at Toronto's West Park Rehabilitation Hospital before returning home to Calgary
8/4/1983
Clive Deverath relaxes in a corner of his living-room devoted to a display of African artifacts. On reprints by Joy Adamson who wrote the book, Born Free. He fingers some Masai warrior beads from Kenya. In his job and on his holidays he travels around collecting handmate crafts. They inspire him, he says. [Incomplete]
Clive Deverath relaxes in a corner of his living-room devoted to a display of African artifacts. On reprints by Joy Adamson who wrote the book, Born Free. He fingers some Masai warrior beads from Kenya. In his job and on his holidays he travels around collecting handmate crafts. They inspire him, he says. [Incomplete]
6/29/1971
Tiny terror: Robert Swayze holds his 23-centimetre (nine-inch) tall West Highland terrier Birder, who has kept the mailman away from Swayze's townhouse for two months by snapping at the mail slot - and the carrier's fingers - during mail delivery
Tiny terror: Robert Swayze holds his 23-centimetre (nine-inch) tall West Highland terrier Birder, who has kept the mailman away from Swayze's townhouse for two months by snapping at the mail slot - and the carrier's fingers - during mail delivery
1/11/1988
Knead to relax: Sharon Sayliss uses her practised fingers, and a special chair, to work the kinks out of Canada Life computer systems auditor Charles McCabe
Knead to relax: Sharon Sayliss uses her practised fingers, and a special chair, to work the kinks out of Canada Life computer systems auditor Charles McCabe
1/7/1999
Numbers came up
Numbers came up
2/4/1986