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Floating in the flag
Floating in the flag

Floating in the flag

Date2/14/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Floating in the flag: The Olympic flag -- its five rings representing the five continents -- is parachuted through cloudy skies into Lake Placid stadium to mark the official opening of the Winter Games yesterday.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0096804F
      Among the eating places at Expo 86y is McDonald's second floating restaurant, which will serve up a good portion of the two million hamburgers it's estimated fair-goers will eat
      Among the eating places at Expo 86y is McDonald's second floating restaurant, which will serve up a good portion of the two million hamburgers it's estimated fair-goers will eat
      Mahler, John
      4/10/1986
      Metro police Sergeant Stephen McCarthy holds the jacket of 14-year-old Benji Hayward, whose body was found today floating in Lake Ontario. The jacket (...)
      Metro police Sergeant Stephen McCarthy holds the jacket of 14-year-old Benji Hayward, whose body was found today floating in Lake Ontario. The jacket (...)
      Dexter, Brian
      5/18/1988
      Battleship Mississippi restes in a huge floating drydock for repairs in the Philippines after and attack by a Kamikaze plane. By pumping out 700,000 g(...)
      Battleship Mississippi restes in a huge floating drydock for repairs in the Philippines after and attack by a Kamikaze plane. By pumping out 700,000 g(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      10/3/1945
      Down on a pier with Pierre. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau dangles his legs over floating platform's guardrails after finishing impromptu jig for a crowd in Quebec's Lac St. Jean region Saturday
      Down on a pier with Pierre. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau dangles his legs over floating platform's guardrails after finishing impromptu jig for a crowd in Quebec's Lac St. Jean region Saturday
      Spremo, Boris
      8/5/1969
      Prototype Pierhead, with sections of floating roadway attached, was tested for a whole year in all types of weather resulting in the Mulberry, a prefa(...)
      Prototype Pierhead, with sections of floating roadway attached, was tested for a whole year in all types of weather resulting in the Mulberry, a prefa(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/3/1945
      This gate lifter is the largest floating or fixed crane in existence
      This gate lifter is the largest floating or fixed crane in existence
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/22/1931
      Stricken freighter became inferno when fuel oil tanks blew up, injured skipper says Floating oil around Burning Freighter Milverton turned St. Lawrence river into sea of flame
      Stricken freighter became inferno when fuel oil tanks blew up, injured skipper says Floating oil around Burning Freighter Milverton turned St. Lawrence river into sea of flame
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/24/1947
      One of the two city tugs that buck the floating ice
      One of the two city tugs that buck the floating ice
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7 February 1945
      An 86-year-old Mississippi river boat was towed this morning from its moorings at Port Credit where it has been used as a floating restaurant and danc(...)
      An 86-year-old Mississippi river boat was towed this morning from its moorings at Port Credit where it has been used as a floating restaurant and danc(...)
      Loek, Dick
      8/17/1982
      Floating cigar boxes, juggled torches are part of his act
      Floating cigar boxes, juggled torches are part of his act
      Bull, Ron
      8/14/1986
      Floating idea: Harold Madill, who runs a Weston printing firm, holds a model of his concept for solar-powered tankers
      Floating idea: Harold Madill, who runs a Weston printing firm, holds a model of his concept for solar-powered tankers
      Brennan, Pat
      12/10/1984
      James McKean of Port Pickering Marina saved the 1915 dredge Primrose (above) and wants to turn it into a floating restaurant like the sketch, right.
      James McKean of Port Pickering Marina saved the 1915 dredge Primrose (above) and wants to turn it into a floating restaurant like the sketch, right.
      Madonik, Rick
      9/1/1992