Toronto at leisure

Reading the newspaper at home
Joseph A. Blakey
1908

Reading the newspaper on picket duty
Harold Barkley/Toronto Star
January 5, 1952

In 1908, Mr. Sprunt reads the four-page Toronto Sunday World newspaper on the stoop of his home, located on Kingston Road near Franklin Avenue.

In 1952, TTC Operator George Shaw reads about the transit strike while sitting on the front of an idled streetcar.

Bowling at 90
Graham Bezant/Toronto Star
October 21, 1978

Bingo
Ron Bull/Toronto Star
December 29, 1971

Shooting pool 
Ron Bull/Toronto Star
October 3, 1974

Edna Griscuks, a TTC secretary by day, plays bingo with her mother-in-law in 1971. Mrs. Griscuks could keep track of
20 cards at once.

Edgar Reiprich, Marshall Nodelman and Armin Sommer shoot pool in the
basement of Reiprich's Scarborough home in 1974.

In 1978, a spry 90-year-old Gerturde Cooper bowls at the Avenue Road Bowlerama.

Feeding pigeons
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
June 1, 1974

Birds' best friend
Colin McConnell/Toronto Star
January 14, 1982
Gelatin silver print

Albert Delutis feeds the pigeons on the grounds of Metropolitan United Church at Queen and Church Streets in June, 1974.

During the winter of 1982, Sally Webber feeds the pigeons at Queen's Park.

Kung Fu dancing
Doug Griffin/Toronto Star
January 7, 1975

Rave
March 22, 1993
Jim Rankin/Toronto Star

Peter Sasi and Annabel demonstrate "Kung Fu dancing," a short-lived dance craze, at Sugar's, an after-hours disco on Yonge Street.

In 1993, the "Hypnotic Justice" rave attracted more than 2,000 people out to a massive warehouse on Peter Street.

Picnic in High Park 
George Edward Alexander Robinson
June 29, 1907
Gelatin silver print

Italian Day picnic
Bob Olsen/Toronto Star
July 17, 1967
Gelatin silver print

Enjoying a picnic in High Park, in June of 1907.

Young men cheer for 19-year-old Dale Ritchie as she walks down the ramp to win the beauty crown at the 1967 Italian Day picnic on Centre Island.