Toronto Sketches 5: The Way We WereMike Filey’s "The Way We Were" column in the Toronto Sun continues to be one of the paper’s most popular features. In Toronto Sketches 5, the fifth volume in Dundurn Press’s Toronto Sketches series, Filey brings together some of the best of his columns from 1996 and 1997. Each column looks at Toronto as it was, and contributes to our understanding of how Toronto became what it is. Illustrated with photographs of the city’s people and places of the past, Toronto Sketches 5 is a nostalgic journey for the long-time Torontonian, and a voyage of discovery for the newcomer. |
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TOs New City Hall Turns 30 | 24 |
The Young Train Man Who Could | 27 |
Putting the Citys Past into Focus | 104 |
Architect Leaves his Landmarks | 107 |
Going on Location at Eaton Hall | 110 |
Swimmer Finally Gets his Due | 113 |
Bringing the World into Focus | 116 |
Thats Maytime Entertainment | 119 |
Improving the Rail Lands on Track | 121 |
Happy TwentyFifth Ontario Place | 123 |
Hospital Almost Funding Casualty | 29 |
The Saga of the OKeefe Centre | 32 |
Everything Old is New Again | 35 |
TTC Woes Reminder of Earlier Times | 38 |
Oh Island in the Scheme | 41 |
A Lasting Tribute to Our Fallen | 44 |
War Memorial Sparked Verbal Battle | 47 |
Belt Line Loops Were No Cinch | 50 |
Torontos Link to Lusitania | 53 |
Ontarios Very Own Loveboat | 56 |
Ding Ding Ding Go the Trolleys | 58 |
In the Mood to Remember Miller | 61 |
Johnny Made Christmas a Magical Time for Us Kids | 64 |
How We Rang in 1946 | 67 |
Model Guide to the Past | 69 |
Winging it into Aviation History | 71 |
Falling Victim to the Deadly Flu Bug | 74 |
Getting a Leg Up on NDay Invasion | 77 |
Rolling Out the Latest Models | 80 |
Yonge at Heart | 83 |
Theres Plenty of Mileage on TowTruck Issue | 90 |
Oh to be in England | 93 |
Clearing the Way for Yonge Street | 96 |
Wearin O the Green | 99 |
From Downs View to Downsview | 101 |
Play it Again Frank | 126 |
What a Gas to Look Back at Prices | 128 |
Landmark CN Tower Turns 20 | 131 |
Crazy Bout My Classic Automobile | 133 |
This Hotel was Without Peer | 136 |
On the Sunnyside of the Beach | 138 |
Celebrating Two Hundred Years Yonge | 141 |
Heres Where Yonge Ended Two Hundred Years Ago | 144 |
These Walls Picture Our Past | 147 |
A Century of Cinema | 150 |
Happy SeventyFifth TTC | 153 |
And on this Corner | 156 |
Making Plans for the Future | 159 |
Housing the Forces that Provide Neighbourhood Protection | 162 |
Cathedral to Ring in Two Hundred Years | 165 |
Fields of Dreams | 168 |
Our Bridge to Leaside | 170 |
Celebrating SeventyFive Years of Community Service | 172 |
Coliseum Turns 75 | 175 |
Theyre Toronto Firsts | 178 |
Road Name Honours War Dead | 182 |
Curtains Up on Theatre in Old TO | 185 |
Images of Our Past Captured On Video | 188 |
LongStanding Houses of Worship | 190 |
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