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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

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

Date11/26/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0005190F
. . . Work ethic vanishes
. . . Work ethic vanishes
2/1/1974
It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
8/25/1971
Digging in for a long winter. A huge pile of salt - 4,300 tons of it - is heaped up in the city yard at Yonge St. and pears Ave. in preparation for wi(...)
Digging in for a long winter. A huge pile of salt - 4,300 tons of it - is heaped up in the city yard at Yonge St. and pears Ave. in preparation for wi(...)
10/18/1973
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
Mrs. Mike Eben models Paul Bunyon plaid shirt in brown, rust and beige over heavy yellow hooded sweater and beige pants against background of Toronto (...)
Mrs. Mike Eben models Paul Bunyon plaid shirt in brown, rust and beige over heavy yellow hooded sweater and beige pants against background of Toronto (...)
9/26/1972
A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
6/22/1981
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
3/14/1984
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
8/9/1988
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
8/9/1988
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
8/9/1988
Hitting the bricks
Hitting the bricks
7/3/1981
On the bricks
On the bricks
7/22/1981