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Why, thank you, @StuartHumphryes, for the early Christmas gift! I feel like a much more younger ghost.
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All documented under AARON in any number of Volume 1s of supermarket encyclopedias available at your local Dominion for 9 cents a piece!
Baseball’s career home run champion, Hank Aaron, appears in his 3,298th and final Major League Baseball game, a 5-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers at Milwaukee County Stadium, Wisconsin.
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Happy 105! Herewith one of its last-standing brethren, likely #2766, at King and Bay in 1987, one year before the end of charter service. #PeterWitt.
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Oct 2, 1921: the Toronto Transportation Commission's new Peter Witt streetcars begin service on the Broadview route. The original TTC Witt car, No. 2300, had been on display the previous month at the Canadian National Exhibition. 1/2
ALT An illustration of the TTC's new Peter Witt streetcar No. 2302 in the October 1921 issue of Canadian Railway and Marine World, page 545.
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#MyDescentIntoMadness began and ended at the photographer’s studio as @torontolibrary can attest.
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Rest well, David Marsden, legendary CKEY personality as #DaveMickie and the man behind #TheSpiritOfRadio at CFNY @the_edge.
Herewith some words from @alancross:
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“Generation X – the last generation that was analog only – is now a dying breed…But I do have faith that great art is always going to be created, because great hearts and souls and people will always be born.” @xMAdMx on my great-times-four-grandchildren’s generation.
Melissa Auf der Maur on the Power and Chaos of the '90s. The multimedia artist reflects on her AGO exhibition documenting a pivotal decade of her life readfoyer.com/article/meliss…
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Do yourself a favour, imagine yourself in @masseyhall, and play some of the Calypso King of the World, Mighty Sparrow. Rest well, good sir.
📸 Keith Beaty, 1996, via @torontolibrary
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I am sure we can up with a dystopian remedy for that. We just need some actors to do a mash-up of their own experiences. But I fear it is beyond the budget of a single Torontonian ghost, and perhaps @MovieMayor as well!
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Like choosing between my children! Overall, Abe Okpik made essential contributions to Canadian society ☑️, but Reginald Fessenden made it possible for the spoken word to be transmitted wirelessly! The story about him being the first DJ might be apocryphal, but ‘tis a good one.
Who is Our Favourite Canadian: PRELIMINARY ROUND
Many Canadians have left their mark on our history, but who is our favourite?
Polls each day, follow along to learn about the people who have shaped Canada's history.
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Meanwhile, “Drinking Jack 🥃 all by myself” is an improbable fantasy for millions of trade-war-torn Canadians.
Ella Langley Is Mind-Blown as ‘Choosin’ Texas’ Makes Billboard Hot 100 History: ‘Absolutely Insane’
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An ok airport is an excellent assessment. Seldom the best; rarely the worst. But rumour has it Methuselah spent many of his 969 years waiting for an overnight bag at T1.
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The portages of @Algonquin_PP - particularly those just over a mile long - are littered with the cuss words of many a descendant.
#OTD (Mon, Sep 21) 1908 at #AlgonquinPark: "Left Burnt Lake shelter house at 6 a.m. After a most delightful sail down Perley Lake & Petawawa River we arrived at Catfish Lake...pushed forward over long portage. Well, we sweat[ed] & I am afraid said cuss words a few times."
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‘Tis the end of an era indeed. At one point, book and record stores seemed as plentiful as fire hydrants up and down Yonge!
I'm sad to see that ABC Books at 662 Yonge St. is closing. It was the last holdout from the days when Yonge from Bloor to Wellesley was popluated with a ton of used book/record/CD stores. Anyways they're having a 50% off sale. Worth a visit #toronto
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I enjoy the living museum that is social media. Herewith a treasure trove of @alancross @the_edge trivia from 40 years ago #OTD courtesy of @scotturner.
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Absolutely! Herewith Toronto’s own #GlennGould presenting on and playing Beethoven’s transformative collision of the classical and romantic in my teenage years: youtu.be/RPDBcdDGrnE
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Fair! It absolutely could not be the setting for a Hallmark Christmas movie set in the United States (however, it has portrayed itself!).
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Perusing decades of Via Rail timetables is more sobering than a night in the gaol.
These may be small cuts, but decades of small cuts, a.k.a. revising schedules to 'better align service with passenger demand', has only perpetuated more decline and more cuts. Most Western European countries got off this illogical treadmill by the 1980s.
Will Canada ever do so?
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Stardate minus 296286. A wild ride between these two: @WilliamShatner and @FredBronson! Truly where no man has gone before.
@WilliamShatner Thank you, Bill, for a great interview.
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