Toronto Sketches 10Mike Filey's column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper's most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: "The Way We Were." Since then another eight volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great success. This 10th volume highlights some of Toronto's greatest landmarks such as the Don Jail and its graves and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island. Mike also steps back in time to revisit the Avrocar, the flying saucer of the Great White North; takes a peek at Miss Toronto of 1926; conjures up The Hollywood, the city's first "talkie" theatre; and recalls historic snow days Canada's largest city has experienced. |
Contents
Yorkville the First Burb | 133 |
Postcards from the Edge | 136 |
Casa de Toronto | 139 |
Street Smart? | 142 |
Big Time in History | 145 |
Central Prison of Horrors | 148 |
Motor Ride Back in History | 151 |
A Time for Talkies | 154 |
Babe a Hit in Toronto | 37 |
Rose by Any Other Name | 40 |
A Shining Example | 44 |
Gooderham Worts and All | 48 |
Lights Action Drive | 51 |
Our Changing Skyline | 55 |
On the Waterfront | 58 |
Hooray Simcoe Day | 62 |
TTC Testing LRT Bidders | 66 |
Ex Marks the Spot | 69 |
Red Rockets of Yesteryear | 72 |
Taking a Flight Back in Time | 76 |
Shes the Belle of Lake Ontario | 79 |
A Grave Story Indeed | 83 |
Stagnant Gardens | 87 |
When Joy Came to Town | 90 |
Goodbye Dominion Hello Metro | 92 |
New Old Electric Railway | 95 |
Landmark of Learning | 98 |
Lest We Forget | 101 |
Toronto in Transition | 103 |
A Toronto Kingpin | 106 |
Tracking the Past | 109 |
Bag to the Future | 112 |
Oh How Weve Grown | 114 |
A Surprise Demolition | 117 |
Birth of Sunday Sports | 121 |
Historic Snow Days | 124 |
Bridging the Gap | 127 |
Historic Snow Fight | 130 |
Original Mr FixIt | 158 |
Tough Act to Follow | 161 |
Night Toronto Burned | 164 |
Full Steam Ahead | 167 |
John Lyles Vision Shaped in TO | 170 |
Royal Reception | 173 |
The Dating Game | 176 |
Ahead of its Time | 179 |
Skys the Limit | 183 |
Pomp and Pageantry | 186 |
Keeping Us Amused | 189 |
Streetcar City | 192 |
Toronto in the Dumps | 195 |
Here She Is Miss Toronto 1926 | 198 |
Universitys Magnificent Beacon | 200 |
The Day Noronic Went Up in Smoke | 203 |
The Word on the Street Is | 206 |
Island Tunnel that Would Never Be | 209 |
A Revolutionary Condo Concept | 212 |
Home Sweet Home Aboard Red Rocket | 215 |
Lets Set the Record Straight | 218 |
Lets Head Back in Time | 221 |
You Better Watch OutYou Better Not Cry | 225 |
Flying Saucer of the Great White North | 228 |
Shedding Light on Queens Wharf Lighthouse | 231 |
Torontos EverChanging Skyline | 234 |
The Rise of the Big Smoke | 237 |
Rolling Billboards of the Past | 240 |
They Were a Cut Above | 243 |