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Nothing orthodox: Gwenlynn Little (left) pulls on a gadget called a Bullworker while student Jane Gooderheart (centre) lugs two bags of bricks and Lois McDonall feels her diaphragm in a scene typifying the seemingly strange exercises at their studios in Toronto
Nothing orthodox: Gwenlynn Little (left) pulls on a gadget called a Bullworker while student Jane Gooderheart (centre) lugs two bags of bricks and Lois McDonall feels her diaphragm in a scene typifying the seemingly strange exercises at their studios in Toronto

Nothing orthodox: Gwenlynn Little (left) pulls on a gadget called a Bullworker while student Jane Gooderheart (centre) lugs two bags of bricks and Lois McDonall feels her diaphragm in a scene typifying the seemingly strange exercises at their studios in Toronto

Date3/14/1984
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0063499F
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Tons of tomes up for sale. Deborah Schlow lugs a load of books to Trinity College's Friends of the Library annual book sale. thousands of books at bar(...)
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10/19/1988
The fun ships, Limbos, chug-a-lugs and maybe romance/H7
The fun ships, Limbos, chug-a-lugs and maybe romance/H7
9/15/1990
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
10/7/1982
Hitting the bricks
Hitting the bricks
7/3/1981
On the bricks
On the bricks
7/22/1981
Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
Plaid jacket and hardhat of a wrecker hang against background of heaped-up bricks as a huge segment of Toronto vanishes to make way for gleaming modernity
11/26/1973
Preparation of radio-active isotopes is done by remote control and the operator is protected by a thick wall of lead bricks
Preparation of radio-active isotopes is done by remote control and the operator is protected by a thick wall of lead bricks
12/29/1947
Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
11/3/1966
Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks
Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks
11/22/1990
Richard Cyyde Larkin: United States deputy consul-general. Pickets don't worry him as long as they don't throw bricks
Richard Cyyde Larkin: United States deputy consul-general. Pickets don't worry him as long as they don't throw bricks
12/2/1964
Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
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