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Toronto: The way we were : a collection of photos & stories about North America's greatest city - Softcover
For decades Toronto historian Mike Filey has regaled readers with stories of the city's past through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments. Now, in one lavishly illustrated volume, he serves up the best of his meditations on everything from the Royal York Hotel, the Flatiron Building, and the Necropolis to Massey Hall, the Palais Royale, and the Canadian National Exhibition, with streetcar jaunts through Cabbagetown, the Annex, Rosedale, and Little Italy and trips down memory lane with Mary Pickford, Glenn Miller, Bob Hope, and Ed Mirvish. Filey recounts in vivid detail the devastation of city disasters such as Hurricane Hazel and the Great Fire of 1904 and spins yarns about doughnut shops old and new, milk deliveries by horse, swimming at Lake Ontario's beaches, Sunday blue laws, and how both World Wars affected Torontonians.
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In this lavishly illustrated volume, Toronto historian Mike Filey regales readers with the best of his meditations on everything Toronto, including stories of the city's past told through its landmarks, neighbourhoods, streetscapes, social customs, pleasure palaces, politics, sporting events, celebrities, and defining moments.
About the Author:
Mike Filey was born in Toronto in 1941. He has written more than two dozen books on various facets of Toronto's past and for more than thirty-five years has contributed a popular column, ''''The Way We Were,'''' to the Toronto Sunday Sun. His Toronto Sketches series is more popular now than ever before.
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- PublisherNelson, Foster, & Scott Limited
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0919324223
- ISBN 13 9780919324220
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages64
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Toronto: The way we were
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Toronto. The Way We Were. A Collections of Photos and Stories About North America's Greatest City
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good Condition. B/W Photo Illuistrations (illustrator). 64pp. Content clean, bright and sound. Front cover has mark at upper outside corner where sticked was removed. Seller Inventory # 002482
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Toronto: The Way We Were: A Collection of Photos & Stories About North America's Greatest City (+ ephemera)
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st. First printing. 64 pp., profusely illustrated with photos, oversized oblong white softcover. This is a well-read copy that has been repaired along the spine. NOTE: this copy includes about 40 clippings from the Toronto Telegram "Our Yesterday" series with vintage photos of old Toronto buildings etc. Seller Inventory # 790397
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