Toronto history from various angles
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In a box at home, I found an original copy of "Eye Weekly" from Oct. 3, 1996. Here are a few random items from inside.
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Aug 8, 1925: Toronto's first automatic traffic signal goes into operation at the intersection of Yonge and Bloor Streets. Before this, traffic was controlled by stop signs or—at busy times—police officers operating semaphores with the words "stop" and "go."
ALT An image of Toronto's first electric traffic signal, with three lights mounted horizontally above a "no left turn" sign. From the front page of the August 8, 1925 edition of the Toronto Star.
In the 1950s, a Toronto Macaroni Co. owner asked his wife Rose to develop a tomato sauce to accompany the pasta they’d been producing since the 1930s. The result, Bravo, featured a likeness of Rose, as seen in this grocer display from 1967 (same year General Mills bought Bravo)
Ad for McLean Publishing Co. in 1892, a year after incorporation, with its office at 10 Front St. E. next to the new Board of Trade (now oppo. Meridien Hall). At the time, McLean published trade magazines, but would later print Maclean’s, Chatelaine and other big Canadian mags.
When boarding a Toronto streetcar in 1906, a conductor brought you a portable, security-locked fare box (“coffee pot”) into which you put your coin or ticket. Later, the boxes were sent to the Comptroller’s Office for counting, then used tickets were burned in a special furnace.
