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Memories: Kelly recalls the fateful August day when things started coming apart on the stock market
Memories: Kelly recalls the fateful August day when things started coming apart on the stock market

Memories: Kelly recalls the fateful August day when things started coming apart on the stock market

Date12/9/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0128906F
Memory still green: Traffic expert Bob Burton, 94, standing at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts., recalls when Toronto's first traffic lights were installed on August 8, 1925.
Memory still green: Traffic expert Bob Burton, 94, standing at the corner of Yonge and Bloor Sts., recalls when Toronto's first traffic lights were installed on August 8, 1925.
8/3/1990
Fond memories, Bert Niosi, once Canada's King of Swing, recalls the days when he was a headliner at the Palais Royale, as shown on a 1946 marquee (ins(...)
Fond memories, Bert Niosi, once Canada's King of Swing, recalls the days when he was a headliner at the Palais Royale, as shown on a 1946 marquee (ins(...)
9/20/1982
Memories: Abitibi Ave. residents Donald and Dorrie Copeland recall when coal was delivered by horse-drawn sleigh in North York some forty years ago. A winter's supply cost about $80.
Memories: Abitibi Ave. residents Donald and Dorrie Copeland recall when coal was delivered by horse-drawn sleigh in North York some forty years ago. A winter's supply cost about $80.
6/4/1985
Memories: When Mers Kutt, left, started Consolidated Computer in 1967, the advertisement below echoed the company's high hopes fo success
Memories: When Mers Kutt, left, started Consolidated Computer in 1967, the advertisement below echoed the company's high hopes fo success
9/4/1982
Life's work: Tom Creber stands amid a selection of monuments at Hilltop Memories in Richmond Hill where he now works as manager. The 77-year-old monument-maker has been in the business since the age of 14 when he started out as a tool sharpener.
Life's work: Tom Creber stands amid a selection of monuments at Hilltop Memories in Richmond Hill where he now works as manager. The 77-year-old monument-maker has been in the business since the age of 14 when he started out as a tool sharpener.
9/30/1982
My biggest fear was that I was going to be afraid and not lead my men properly, says Elliot Dalton, right, of Toronto, as he recalls the famous D-Day invasion. He was convinced he would not be killed. His brother, Charles, left, pointing out the position of his men that day, was reported dead, then was found by his brother alive in a U.K. hospital.
My biggest fear was that I was going to be afraid and not lead my men properly, says Elliot Dalton, right, of Toronto, as he recalls the famous D-Day invasion. He was convinced he would not be killed. His brother, Charles, left, pointing out the position of his men that day, was reported dead, then was found by his brother alive in a U.K. hospital.
5/30/1978
Juergen A. Steuter likes the privacy, comfort the protection provided by his automobile. In accompanying letter, Steuter recalls days of standing in wet shoes on cold, fraughty subway platforms.
Juergen A. Steuter likes the privacy, comfort the protection provided by his automobile. In accompanying letter, Steuter recalls days of standing in wet shoes on cold, fraughty subway platforms.
1/5/1973
Jeremy Gismondi, 12, is one of thousands of disabled children in Ontario who go to summer camp each year. While his siter, Jolie, listens in, Jeremy recalls last year's camping joys.
Jeremy Gismondi, 12, is one of thousands of disabled children in Ontario who go to summer camp each year. While his siter, Jolie, listens in, Jeremy recalls last year's camping joys.
4/21/1989
Murray Cotterill recalls the 1946 stelco strike. ...The Canadian worker was not going back...
Murray Cotterill recalls the 1946 stelco strike. ...The Canadian worker was not going back...
12/20/1977
Israel Kopyto, a retired tailor who has lived in Canada 26 years, recalls the Nuremberg Trials, which he attended as a DP camps delegate
Israel Kopyto, a retired tailor who has lived in Canada 26 years, recalls the Nuremberg Trials, which he attended as a DP camps delegate
11/28/1978
Metro engineer Zdzislaw Przygoda recalls Christmas 1944 as a young Pole in a concentration camp near Stuttgart.
Metro engineer Zdzislaw Przygoda recalls Christmas 1944 as a young Pole in a concentration camp near Stuttgart.
12/15/1986
George II: Nobody at Camp X, the secret spy school near Oshawa during World War II that trained British agents, went by surnames, its senior radio man recalls. George Carothers became George II because the service had already signed up a George.
George II: Nobody at Camp X, the secret spy school near Oshawa during World War II that trained British agents, went by surnames, its senior radio man recalls. George Carothers became George II because the service had already signed up a George.
6/13/1979