Toronto Sketches 5: The Way We Were

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Dundurn, Oct 1, 1997 - History - 224 pages

Mike 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.

 

Contents

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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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 35 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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