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Above: Maybe he drives a Cadillac to the office - but here he's just another hobo waiting for a train
Above: Maybe he drives a Cadillac to the office - but here he's just another hobo waiting for a train

Above: Maybe he drives a Cadillac to the office - but here he's just another hobo waiting for a train

Date8/3/1979
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Original Toronto Star caption: Above: Maybe he drives a Cadillac to the office - but here he's just another hobo waiting for a train.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011294F
Helping handout: A passerby hands hobo king Andy Caruso a dollar bill for a treat as he stands in front of the steel fence blocking his cave under a Parkdale bridge
Helping handout: A passerby hands hobo king Andy Caruso a dollar bill for a treat as he stands in front of the steel fence blocking his cave under a Parkdale bridge
6/10/1988
Grub time: Hobo chows down on Mulligan Stew
Grub time: Hobo chows down on Mulligan Stew
8/4/1979
I don't talk about it, 26-year-old Pat Ciccone says of his job as driver-clerk to North York Mayor Mel Lastman. He drives Latsman 300 to 400 miles a week, and handles telephone complaints when he's not behind the wheel.
I don't talk about it, 26-year-old Pat Ciccone says of his job as driver-clerk to North York Mayor Mel Lastman. He drives Latsman 300 to 400 miles a week, and handles telephone complaints when he's not behind the wheel.
12/29/1975
Mannix, who says he has lived on the streets for 20 years, stops to count his money, above left, before buying fries at a chip wagon
Mannix, who says he has lived on the streets for 20 years, stops to count his money, above left, before buying fries at a chip wagon
1/23/1991
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
5/26/1984
At top right, another man kills time in an all-night doughnut shop
At top right, another man kills time in an all-night doughnut shop
1/8/1988
He wants money: Dr. Mario Piacenza of the southern Italian town of Altomonte is in Toronto lookin for funds to build a school for peasant children. He's hoping to get it from the parents of the children he's leading here - natives of Alomonte who left their home town for North America. So far, he's visited 7 cities on a 3-month North American tour but has raised only $2,000 of the $20,000 he needs. He's had a picnic with Altomonteans here and plans another one.
He wants money: Dr. Mario Piacenza of the southern Italian town of Altomonte is in Toronto lookin for funds to build a school for peasant children. He's hoping to get it from the parents of the children he's leading here - natives of Alomonte who left their home town for North America. So far, he's visited 7 cities on a 3-month North American tour but has raised only $2,000 of the $20,000 he needs. He's had a picnic with Altomonteans here and plans another one.
9/12/1969
Life on hold: Mohamed Hussein Mohamed, shown in his Scarborough home, says he feels like he's been sentenced to at least another 10 months of waiting for word on his claim for political refugee status
Life on hold: Mohamed Hussein Mohamed, shown in his Scarborough home, says he feels like he's been sentenced to at least another 10 months of waiting for word on his claim for political refugee status
12/28/1988
Dr. John J. Slavens, 82, is proud of having the body of a 35-year-old man and he drives it hard. As well as two days' practice as a pediatrician he makes house calls four days a week. Retirement is not only deadly, He says, it's a waste.
Dr. John J. Slavens, 82, is proud of having the body of a 35-year-old man and he drives it hard. As well as two days' practice as a pediatrician he makes house calls four days a week. Retirement is not only deadly, He says, it's a waste.
7/27/1989
The poor: And in a scene from the poor city, a derelict clings to his worldly goods, staring at the sidewalk as he searches for a place to sleep, a meal to eat
The poor: And in a scene from the poor city, a derelict clings to his worldly goods, staring at the sidewalk as he searches for a place to sleep, a meal to eat
3/7/1989
A homeless man uses a mitten atop a concrete barrier for a pillow as he sleeps in freezing temperatures in the Dundas St. W. Simcoe St. area last nigh(...)
A homeless man uses a mitten atop a concrete barrier for a pillow as he sleeps in freezing temperatures in the Dundas St. W. Simcoe St. area last nigh(...)
1/7/1991
Sand man: Mark Culligan, one of Toronto's two full-time beachcombers, drives a front-end loader hauling a 'beachpicker' vehicle that sifts gunk at Woodbine Beach. This isn't a bad office, says the four-year veteran.
Sand man: Mark Culligan, one of Toronto's two full-time beachcombers, drives a front-end loader hauling a 'beachpicker' vehicle that sifts gunk at Woodbine Beach. This isn't a bad office, says the four-year veteran.
7/17/1990