Mustapha
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That one (a 55) is a "tribute" to the old TV series "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. I remember it well... The Buicks were always the real stars in that series. (in my eyes)...![]()
Thanks Hudson8 for piping up.
That one (a 55) is a "tribute" to the old TV series "Highway Patrol" starring Broderick Crawford. I remember it well... The Buicks were always the real stars in that series. (in my eyes)...![]()
Interesting how the 1895 pic shows the original store on Queen (from the Simpson's catalogue 1893: http://www.toronto.ca/archives/beckernew3.htm)
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Which, of course, was not rebuilt after the fire:
1908:
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Perhaps this view of Yonge St., S. from Richmond (1899), has not previously been seen on UT
- I found it in a 1996 issue of The Beaver Magazine.
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Not 1899. Maybe a decade or so later, after Traders Bank (1906) had been built but nothing else early-skyscraperwise at Yonge/King existed yet...
...do you know if there are other 'sections' of it (going further east)?
I was looking at that building over the last few days but nothing twigged.
By coincidence, I found one of those (still in use) at an estate sale in Pickering last week.
Push button switches were made with bakelite buttons, some even had mother of pearl inlays to designate "on". The switch bodies themselves were mostly ceramic. I think I still have a few in my collection. As for the pill box switches, I have a few of those, some still in use at my cottage. I also have the earlier version in brass and ceramic that turn to operate them. Like my father before me I like to collect such things and examples from different countries as well. I even have a 100 watt carbon filament light bulb. It's the size of a large thermos and still works.