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Fred Thompson: He's trying to find 4,000 pairs of used skates for needy children in northern Ontario.
Fred Thompson: He's trying to find 4,000 pairs of used skates for needy children in northern Ontario.

Fred Thompson: He's trying to find 4,000 pairs of used skates for needy children in northern Ontario.

Date9/22/1983
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134823F
Shelves of skates: George Mackay holds some of the 300 pairs of skates he keeps in the basement of his Brampton home.
Shelves of skates: George Mackay holds some of the 300 pairs of skates he keeps in the basement of his Brampton home.
2/16/1993
A master at work: John Knebli, 88, inspects one of the 100,000 pairs of skates he has made in his long and satisfying career
A master at work: John Knebli, 88, inspects one of the 100,000 pairs of skates he has made in his long and satisfying career
8/7/1992
Famed international skater Otto Jelinek, now head of a company that will produce 200,000 pairs of skates this year, finds success has meant sale of co(...)
Famed international skater Otto Jelinek, now head of a company that will produce 200,000 pairs of skates this year, finds success has meant sale of co(...)
2/24/1972
Lionel Conn : He's president of Tudor Energy, but his subsidiary makes the Universal Skate Sharpener, which is about the size of a soft drink machine. It can do either hockey or figure skates and the whole process takes only seconds and costs only $2.50 a throw.
Lionel Conn : He's president of Tudor Energy, but his subsidiary makes the Universal Skate Sharpener, which is about the size of a soft drink machine. It can do either hockey or figure skates and the whole process takes only seconds and costs only $2.50 a throw.
4/12/1985
Sight for sore eyes: Harold Bayham, a 57-year-old Torontonian, has collected almost 14,000 pairs of cast-off eyeglasses, which he takes to give away to the poor people of the Dominican Republic. He started his project with a single magazine advertisement.
Sight for sore eyes: Harold Bayham, a 57-year-old Torontonian, has collected almost 14,000 pairs of cast-off eyeglasses, which he takes to give away to the poor people of the Dominican Republic. He started his project with a single magazine advertisement.
2/28/1977
A lot of fun, but it's not safe, It used to be bicycles, snap-the-whip, milk or bread wagons, but youngsters on roller skates will always find a new w(...)
A lot of fun, but it's not safe, It used to be bicycles, snap-the-whip, milk or bread wagons, but youngsters on roller skates will always find a new w(...)
5/5/1975
Figure-skating champion Nigel Stephens, who gained his laurels in the 1940s, has hung up his skates
Figure-skating champion Nigel Stephens, who gained his laurels in the 1940s, has hung up his skates
1/10/1968
Steve Kolozsvary at his bench, watched by wife Rosa. An escaper from Hungary, master bootmaker now makes skates.
Steve Kolozsvary at his bench, watched by wife Rosa. An escaper from Hungary, master bootmaker now makes skates.
2/10/1978
A New Big Wheel at CCM in Toronto is Sheldon Hamer, 56, who became president yesterday with the signing of a deal by him and other Montreal investors to buy the 79-year-old manufacturer of bikes and skates
A New Big Wheel at CCM in Toronto is Sheldon Hamer, 56, who became president yesterday with the signing of a deal by him and other Montreal investors to buy the 79-year-old manufacturer of bikes and skates
6/29/1978
Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
1/10/1984
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
6/9/1972
Help needed: Fred Koruntoff sits in the living room of his home, surrounded by food donated to his free breakfast program for the needy
Help needed: Fred Koruntoff sits in the living room of his home, surrounded by food donated to his free breakfast program for the needy
12/3/1985