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Repairmen: Peter and Mike Gout opened their own sports equipment repair shop, Sportfix, on Torbram Rd. in 1990 and haven't looked back.
Repairmen: Peter and Mike Gout opened their own sports equipment repair shop, Sportfix, on Torbram Rd. in 1990 and haven't looked back.

Repairmen: Peter and Mike Gout opened their own sports equipment repair shop, Sportfix, on Torbram Rd. in 1990 and haven't looked back.

Date3/12/1998
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127867F
Fine work: Jason Chisholm repairs a Rolex watch at his shop, The Little Shop of Horolog, which he runs with wife Sue. I'm swamped with work, he says, because in these economic times, people aren't throwing old watches away.
Fine work: Jason Chisholm repairs a Rolex watch at his shop, The Little Shop of Horolog, which he runs with wife Sue. I'm swamped with work, he says, because in these economic times, people aren't throwing old watches away.
10/22/1992
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
2/15/1973
Show of their own: Larry Fairbairn, 34, foreground, and Mike Crawford, 37, have contributed to the Photos from the Street exhibit at Toronto City Hall, which opened yesterday and ends Friday.
Show of their own: Larry Fairbairn, 34, foreground, and Mike Crawford, 37, have contributed to the Photos from the Street exhibit at Toronto City Hall, which opened yesterday and ends Friday.
10/5/1992
Sports doctor: Dr. Harvey Pasternak, with a muscle stimulator, has opened a sports medicine clinic in Pickering.
Sports doctor: Dr. Harvey Pasternak, with a muscle stimulator, has opened a sports medicine clinic in Pickering.
6/27/1991
The way it was: Peter and Louise DeGroot of Etobicoke haven't spent all their time since retiring with all work and no play.
The way it was: Peter and Louise DeGroot of Etobicoke haven't spent all their time since retiring with all work and no play.
4/1/1991
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
12/29/1977
Hot wheels: Gerry Kramer, chairman of Nissan Canada, shows off a prototype of the company's new sports model, the 1990 300ZX
Hot wheels: Gerry Kramer, chairman of Nissan Canada, shows off a prototype of the company's new sports model, the 1990 300ZX
2/8/1989
Jose Diaz Rodriguez, now owner of a TV repair shop in Toronto, was a boy when the Mac-Paps fought in Spain.
Jose Diaz Rodriguez, now owner of a TV repair shop in Toronto, was a boy when the Mac-Paps fought in Spain.
10/25/1990
Please smoke here: Dedicated smoker Heinz Fuhrman, displays guidelines urging workers to smoke in a Toronto auto repair shop, which is even offering start smoking courses
Please smoke here: Dedicated smoker Heinz Fuhrman, displays guidelines urging workers to smoke in a Toronto auto repair shop, which is even offering start smoking courses
12/1/1988
On display: John Lennox, the man who started Collegiate Sports, has opened a new store in Unionville
On display: John Lennox, the man who started Collegiate Sports, has opened a new store in Unionville
12/17/1981
Way to play ball! The Kaplan brothers, Darryl, 13, Randy, 15, and Cary, 18, deserve their own Sports Hall of Fame - just to house the thousands of baseball cards and other memorabilia the North York trio have collected since they were in diapers
Way to play ball! The Kaplan brothers, Darryl, 13, Randy, 15, and Cary, 18, deserve their own Sports Hall of Fame - just to house the thousands of baseball cards and other memorabilia the North York trio have collected since they were in diapers
8/31/1988
Magic fingers: Mike Dincu, 33, a graduate sports therapist from the University of Bucharest, has been winning praise from sprinters whose sore and aching limbs Dincu has restored to life with his penetrating massages.
Magic fingers: Mike Dincu, 33, a graduate sports therapist from the University of Bucharest, has been winning praise from sprinters whose sore and aching limbs Dincu has restored to life with his penetrating massages.
9/2/1982