Toronto Sketches 5

The Way We Were

Mike Filey

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN:
  9781550022926
• eBook ISBN:
  9781459713307
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

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

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 Trolleys

In 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 Due

Bringing 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 Protection

Cathedral to Ring in Two Hundred ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• 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 Trolleys
• In 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 Due
• Bringing 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 Protection
• Cathedral 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