In grade school we were asked to draw things that would be put in a time capsule in the CN Tower.
By the way, don't know how they worked without a security belt.
Vintage Toronto
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By the way, don't know how they worked without a security belt.
Gone are the days of pretty much non existent health and safety in the workplace .
Surprisingly there was only one fatality during construction of the tower, and he wasn't a construction worker, Jack Ashton, a consultant for the concrete inspection company. He was hit on the head by a falling piece of plywood and his neck broke and he died on impact.
Surprisingly there was only one fatality during construction of the tower, and he wasn't a construction worker, Jack Ashton, a consultant for the concrete inspection company. He was hit on the head by a falling piece of plywood and his neck broke and he died on impact.
Can't quite see Morley S. Bedford's funeral parlour, just outside the right side of the frame!
They didn't extend the subway from Keele to Kipling until the 70's, so the street cars are still present west of Keele.
Also the Westwood Theatre at Six points. Some the game where Pat Quinn destroyed Bobby Orr and all hell broke loose!
Those sort of jobs were often given to Natives. As a group, they were less inclined to be acrophobic.
The Humber Hump.
It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...
according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"
It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...
according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"
Being an owner of a courier company in Toronto back in the day, nothing back then was ever as bad as it is today. A BBC Newscast announced last year that Toronto was now the 3rd most congested city on the planet following London England and Dublin, and it will not get any better because of too many people and cars and no new roads. One reason why more people are moving to other locations
As a child , used to tell my dad to drive faster as we approached the hump!The Humber Hump.
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It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...
according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"
I grew up in the Alderwood area of south Etobicoke. Anyone from the environs?
I used to wheelie my 750 Honda off that, no such thing as stunt driving then.The Humber Hump.
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It was called the "Humber Hump" - and it was removed when the city rebuilt the bridge over the Humber about 20 years ago... my dad used to speed up a bit but certainly not to the degree that the apocryphal Corvette driver did...
according to wiki: "The old Gardiner and Lake Shore Boulevard bridges over the Humber River, which had been in service since the 1950s, were removed and replaced by new structures in 1998 and 1999. The old bridge pillars, which were resting on soil, not on bedrock, had sunk by a metre, giving the eastbound Gardiner a roller-coaster ride or "Humber hump". The bridges and connecting roadways were replaced at a cost of $100 million.[39] Fatal collisions had occurred at the location, including an August 13, 1995 incident where a speeding eastbound Corvette became airborne and collided with a vehicle in the westbound lanes, killing three persons.[40]"
Downtown Toronto in 1985. credit: Toronto Star
Bloor and Bathurst facing West down Bloor in the 1960s. Note the South West corner was not Honest Ed’s yet. Honest Ed’s was solely the block at Bloor and Markham.
