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Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)
Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)

Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)

Date1/12/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Maybe the lights should come down too; The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect Christmas trees from curbside and feed them into shredders.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0018282F
      Farm for rent: Sale and rent signs on farms are as high as an elephant's eye in rural areas around Metro, where cornfields and dairy farms are disappearing under an advancing wave of houses
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      Toronto signs pitcher. Lamp lights up Jays' life
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      Five of eight signs held by workers during their strike last year at General Motors in Oshawa demand parity in pay with U.S. workers. The strikers wer(...)
      Darrell, Dick
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      The mayor makes 2 new friends. For the ninth year, the City of Toronto last night officially welcomed Yuletide season with Festival of Lights in Natha(...)
      The mayor makes 2 new friends. For the ninth year, the City of Toronto last night officially welcomed Yuletide season with Festival of Lights in Natha(...)
      Crombie, David
      11/28/1975
      Gearing Up: Andre Kolomper, Toronto local president with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, stacks signs last night as strike deadline approached
      Gearing Up: Andre Kolomper, Toronto local president with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, stacks signs last night as strike deadline approached
      Bock, Tony
      8/22/1991
      The lights are on: The spirit of Christmas in the city has even made stately old Queen's Park take on the sparkle of lights highlighting its architecture and glowing around the bandstand
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
      Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      4/20/1972
      They should help: The Blue Jays' lack of left-handed relief pitching should be partially overcome this season with the addition of Bryan Clark, left, Stan Clarke and maybe John Cerutti
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      Toronto Star (Firm)
      2/24/1984
      City 'Lights Up' for Christmas, Passerby pause last night, after a brief lighting-up ceremony in front of City Hall, to gaze at the lights sparkling on a giant spruce tree
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      Spremo, Boris
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      Ed Broadbent's workers store campaign signs in a barn for use in the next election
      Ed Broadbent's workers store campaign signs in a barn for use in the next election
      Broadbent, Ed, 1936-
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