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Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria
Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria

Keeps him busy: Jack Pollick takes pride in his pill-bottle model of a community he dubbed Geriatria

Date1/15/1992
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132224F
Comics a shrewd investment: Richard Foster looks over some of the comic books from a collection he values at $25,000. Foster keeps his comics at the bank and takes them out periodically so he can have the fun of re-reading them. He compares owning comic b
Comics a shrewd investment: Richard Foster looks over some of the comic books from a collection he values at $25,000. Foster keeps his comics at the bank and takes them out periodically so he can have the fun of re-reading them. He compares owning comic b
11/24/1979
A builder's pride: Alex Dyce takes only two or three months to build a house - a dollhouse, that is. Retirement from the Metro Police force will give him more time to devote to his hobby.
A builder's pride: Alex Dyce takes only two or three months to build a house - a dollhouse, that is. Retirement from the Metro Police force will give him more time to devote to his hobby.
6/13/1980
A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
6/20/1984
Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants
Staying in touch: Pollick likes to take regular strolls around Electro-home's plants
6/21/1981
Pharmacist Ben Clodman takes down a bottle of pills in his drug store
Pharmacist Ben Clodman takes down a bottle of pills in his drug store
6/14/1973
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
5/26/1984
Keeping fit: Mike O'Brien, whose brittle bone diease handicapped him while still a pre-schooler, keeps his upper body trim with weight training at Etobicoke Olympium
Keeping fit: Mike O'Brien, whose brittle bone diease handicapped him while still a pre-schooler, keeps his upper body trim with weight training at Etobicoke Olympium
1/19/1981
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
Meticulous handcrafting: That's what keeps renowned architects and major developers knocking on Ed Cotton's door. His model for Fidinam Inc. of a 37-storey tower in Chicago's banking district involved sculpting to scale elaborate 90-year-old carvings on its first three floors.
11/8/1983
Aerobatics expert Doug Murray keeps a model flyer in his office
Aerobatics expert Doug Murray keeps a model flyer in his office
6/15/1978
Keeping up studies of ecology they take at Camp Allsaw in the summer, Bob Reeve and Pam Kertland, study organic compost that camp director Sam Hambly, right, keeps alive in his back yard all winter
Keeping up studies of ecology they take at Camp Allsaw in the summer, Bob Reeve and Pam Kertland, study organic compost that camp director Sam Hambly, right, keeps alive in his back yard all winter
2/8/1976
The amateur winemaker breaks Ontario's puritanical law if he offers a glass of his pride-and-joy to a friend or gives him a bottle to take home
The amateur winemaker breaks Ontario's puritanical law if he offers a glass of his pride-and-joy to a friend or gives him a bottle to take home
8/21/1968
Department head Oliver Chick is also school treasurer and counting money keeps him late at school. He earns only $13,400 a year after 39 years of teaching.
Department head Oliver Chick is also school treasurer and counting money keeps him late at school. He earns only $13,400 a year after 39 years of teaching.
2/23/1967