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Scrap business on the skids
Scrap business on the skids

Scrap business on the skids

Date10/13/1982
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134306F
Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids, says Skid-City's Linda Metten
Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids, says Skid-City's Linda Metten
10/6/1993
Whatever became of crooner Dick Haymes? He hit the skids in the '50s and came back to nightclub success in the '70s
Whatever became of crooner Dick Haymes? He hit the skids in the '50s and came back to nightclub success in the '70s
11/15/1973
On the skids
On the skids
7/21/1990
Ken Sinclair (above) skids across the court for a forehand return while Max Ward scans the skies for a tennis ball that should be coming down sometime(...)
Ken Sinclair (above) skids across the court for a forehand return while Max Ward scans the skies for a tennis ball that should be coming down sometime(...)
6/4/1963
Plane skids off runway. A cargo jet loaded with seafood skidded off a runway during heavy rain at Pearson airport yesterday
Plane skids off runway. A cargo jet loaded with seafood skidded off a runway during heavy rain at Pearson airport yesterday
10/31/1989
Busting skids: Constable Terry Browne of 14 Division practises emergency braking in grvel on one of the force's new BMW motorbikes equipped with ABS
Busting skids: Constable Terry Browne of 14 Division practises emergency braking in grvel on one of the force's new BMW motorbikes equipped with ABS
8/7/1991
Added benefit. Retired General Motors worker Pete Klym gathers wood to heat his house from a huge pile of discarded skids. GM lets its employees take (...)
Added benefit. Retired General Motors worker Pete Klym gathers wood to heat his house from a huge pile of discarded skids. GM lets its employees take (...)
2/2/1995
Back in race: After 20 years on Skid Row, Buck Green sobered up and completed an alcohol counsellor's course at George Brown College
Back in race: After 20 years on Skid Row, Buck Green sobered up and completed an alcohol counsellor's course at George Brown College
5/28/1982
Streetcorner Santa: Dan Ryall, foreground, was ribbed by buddies last Christmas for passing out bucks and booze to Metro's Skid Road winos.
Streetcorner Santa: Dan Ryall, foreground, was ribbed by buddies last Christmas for passing out bucks and booze to Metro's Skid Road winos.
12/19/1980
Irving Goodman, whose Mississauga office features a putting hole, helped build a small scrap metal firm into a giant concern
Irving Goodman, whose Mississauga office features a putting hole, helped build a small scrap metal firm into a giant concern
5/8/1972
Karl Marx, below, a scrap dealer, isn't related tothe Karl Marx but he is related to Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
Karl Marx, below, a scrap dealer, isn't related tothe Karl Marx but he is related to Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
1/10/1984
Mine protest: John Frederick came to Toronto's concrete-and-glass canyons from the wilds of Montana for Rio Algom's annual meeting yesterday, but couldn't get the firm to scrap plans for ever developing an open-pit coal mine near B
Mine protest: John Frederick came to Toronto's concrete-and-glass canyons from the wilds of Montana for Rio Algom's annual meeting yesterday, but couldn't get the firm to scrap plans for ever developing an open-pit coal mine near B
4/26/1989