Toronto sketches 5 : "the way we were" / Mike Filey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Filey, Mike, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toronto (Ont.)--History.

Toronto (Ont.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Oxford : Dundurn Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These are collections of Mike Filey's best work from his popular and long-running Toronto Sun column, ""The Way We Were.""

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Some High Drama on Eglinton Ave.; V-J Day: Fifty Years After the Agony; Old Toronto's Excellent Adventure; Air Shows Take ""Ex"" to the Sky; A Look Back at the ""Ex""; T.O.'s ""New"" City Hall Turns 30; The Young Train Man Who Could; Hospital Almost Funding Casualty; The Saga of the O'Keefe Centre; Everything Old is New - Again; TTC Woes Reminder of Earlier Times; Oh, Island in the Scheme...; A Lasting Tribute to Our Fallen; War Memorial Sparked (Verbal) Battle; Belt Line Loops Were No Cinch; Toronto's Link to Lusitania; Ontario's Very Own ""Loveboat""

""Ding, Ding, Ding"" Go the TrolleysIn the Mood to Remember Miller; Johnny Made Christmas a Magical Time for Us Kids; How We Rang in 1946; Model Guide to the Past; Winging it into Aviation History; Falling Victim to the Deadly Flu Bug; Getting a Leg Up on ""N-Day"" Invasion; Rolling Out the Latest Models; Yonge at Heart; There's Plenty of Mileage on Tow-Truck Issue; Oh, to be in England...; Clearing the Way for Yonge Street; Wearin' O' the Green; From Downs View to Downsview; Putting the City's Past into Focus; Architect Leaves his Landmarks; Going on Location at Eaton Hall

Swimmer Finally Gets his DueBringing the World into Focus; That's Maytime Entertainment; Improving the Rail Lands on Track; Happy Twenty-Fifth, Ontario Place; Play it Again, Frank; What a Gas to Look Back at Prices; Landmark CN Tower Turns 20; Crazy 'Bout My Classic Automobile; This Hotel was Without Peer; On the Sunnyside of the Beach; Celebrating Two Hundred Years Yonge; Here's Where Yonge Ended Two Hundred Years Ago; These Walls Picture Our Past; A Century of Cinema; Happy Seventy-Fifth, TTC; And on this Corner...; Making Plans for the Future

Housing the Forces that Provide Neighbourhood ProtectionCathedral to Ring in Two Hundred Years; Fields of Dreams; Our Bridge to Leaside; Celebrating Seventy-Five Years of Community Service; Coliseum Turns 75; They're Toronto ""Firsts""; Road Name Honours War Dead; Curtain's Up on Theatre in Old T.O.; Images of Our Past Captured On Video; Long-Standing Houses of Worship

Notes:

A selection of stories from Mike Filey's "The way we were" column in the Toronto Sunday sun.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611969660

9781554880850

1554880858

9781281969668

1281969664

OCLC:

288137476