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All Kinds of telephones, from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles, can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone (...)
All Kinds of telephones, from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles, can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone (...)

All Kinds of telephones, from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles, can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone (...)

Date1/6/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: All Kinds of telephones; from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles; can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone jacks. Service representative Teri McDowell shows two models that are available at the Phone Centre; in Bridlewood Mall; which opened Oct. 15.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0017912F
      'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s, Yielding to customer demand, Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to thos(...)
      'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s, Yielding to customer demand, Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to thos(...)
      Loek, Dick
      5/13/1973
      Lap of luxury: Those long, long limousines that seem to be on every street corner these days contain all kinds of gadgets, including telephones - handy for Harry Malawi, owner of First Choice Limousine Service
      Lap of luxury: Those long, long limousines that seem to be on every street corner these days contain all kinds of gadgets, including telephones - handy for Harry Malawi, owner of First Choice Limousine Service
      Bull, Ron
      3/25/1987
      Quick communication: Tom Warner and his ultra-modern cordless phone sit atop a slightly less modern telephone booth
      Quick communication: Tom Warner and his ultra-modern cordless phone sit atop a slightly less modern telephone booth
      Slaughter, Mike
      5/31/1986
      Free phones: Mary Clair Harrold of Laird Drive uses one of the emergency telephones set up in a Bell Telephone truck on a parking lot at Eglinton and Bayview Aves
      Free phones: Mary Clair Harrold of Laird Drive uses one of the emergency telephones set up in a Bell Telephone truck on a parking lot at Eglinton and Bayview Aves
      Faught, Ken
      12/10/1985
      Tied up on the phone, After five days and five nights on a train from Vancouver with his 14 Holsteins, Andy Ness telephones his safe arrival at the Royal Winter Fair, which opens Friday
      Tied up on the phone, After five days and five nights on a train from Vancouver with his 14 Holsteins, Andy Ness telephones his safe arrival at the Royal Winter Fair, which opens Friday
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      11/11/1974
      Leslie Szabo, using antique phone at his Oakville country home on millionaires' row, has a more profound interest in modern telephone systems
      Leslie Szabo, using antique phone at his Oakville country home on millionaires' row, has a more profound interest in modern telephone systems
      Dinsmore, Ted
      4/26/1978
      Puzzler: Tom Ransom has seen all kinds of puzzles - he has 3,000 in his collection - but this wooden take-apart one from Finland has him baffled
      Puzzler: Tom Ransom has seen all kinds of puzzles - he has 3,000 in his collection - but this wooden take-apart one from Finland has him baffled
      Griffin, Doug
      1/21/1981
      Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
      Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
      Darrell, Dick
      2/20/1969
      Talk shopping: At a Bell Canada Phonecentre Suzane Edwards shows that her employer sells and rents numerous types of exotic telephones
      Talk shopping: At a Bell Canada Phonecentre Suzane Edwards shows that her employer sells and rents numerous types of exotic telephones
      Bull, Ron
      5/21/1982
      All kinds of playthings are provided for the boys and girls in junior kindergarten at Cameron Public School, where 4-year-old Petri Stepanoff plays wi(...)
      All kinds of playthings are provided for the boys and girls in junior kindergarten at Cameron Public School, where 4-year-old Petri Stepanoff plays wi(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      9/9/1975
      Receipt of customer John Lauder. Part of Morris Norman donation of business papers, 2002. J. St…
      To Later & Norris, practical horse shoers & general blacksmiths. Horses shod on the latest approved principles of the veterinary college. All kinds of carriages, buggies, spring and heavy waggons made and repaired in first-class style
      1875
      Brantford has an edge in its battle with Boston, which also claims telephone's invention
      Brantford has an edge in its battle with Boston, which also claims telephone's invention
      Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922
      6/27/1946