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Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)
Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)

Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)

Date8/24/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall; where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets. They waited until Mayor Dennison arrived this morning and presented him with 1;184-name petition urging Yorkville Ave. be closed to cars at night for a trial period.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008371F
Sleep-In of 150 Yorkville hippies in front of City Hall began last night as boys and girls settled down with sleeping bags and blankets. It ended this(...)
Sleep-In of 150 Yorkville hippies in front of City Hall began last night as boys and girls settled down with sleeping bags and blankets. It ended this(...)
8/23/1967
Hippies started their combined sleep-in and starve-in by settling down with blankets, sleeping-bags and placards in circle in front of City Hall late (...)
Hippies started their combined sleep-in and starve-in by settling down with blankets, sleeping-bags and placards in circle in front of City Hall late (...)
8/29/1967
It was cool inside, too. Chilled hippies, whose planned starve-in at City Hall last night was dispersed by police, huddle under blankets beside founta(...)
It was cool inside, too. Chilled hippies, whose planned starve-in at City Hall last night was dispersed by police, huddle under blankets beside founta(...)
8/30/1967
Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting
Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting
8/30/1967
Phew incidents marred the sleep-in in front of City Hall last night as this pet skunk tugged at its leash to nose curiously at a hippie sleeping beside its owner
Phew incidents marred the sleep-in in front of City Hall last night as this pet skunk tugged at its leash to nose curiously at a hippie sleeping beside its owner
8/24/1967
By Bike, by broom -- hippies fight the cars in yorkville
By Bike, by broom -- hippies fight the cars in yorkville
1/1/1967
By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
8/22/1967
The love-in gave dignified Robert Gilgour chance to dance with pretty hippies on lawn at Queen's Park, when his Yorkville friends complained about the arrests at burn-in,
The love-in gave dignified Robert Gilgour chance to dance with pretty hippies on lawn at Queen's Park, when his Yorkville friends complained about the arrests at burn-in,
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Hippies ceremonially light incese which they use as an aid to meditation
Hippies ceremonially light incese which they use as an aid to meditation
1/1/1967
How to play it cool, man. So what if the temperature is touching 90 and the humidity all but total? Just make like hippies Stu Mair, 18, and Rabbit Ch(...)
How to play it cool, man. So what if the temperature is touching 90 and the humidity all but total? Just make like hippies Stu Mair, 18, and Rabbit Ch(...)
7/17/1968
Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line
Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line
8/24/1967
The world of the hippies
The world of the hippies
8/9/1967