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End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night, then it will face the wrecker's ball
End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night, then it will face the wrecker's ball

End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night, then it will face the wrecker's ball

Date4/26/1989
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  • End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night, then it will face the wrecker's ball
  • End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night; then it will face the wrecker's ball.
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Original Toronto Star caption: End of an ERA: The Terrace's doors will close for good tomorrow night; then it will face the wrecker's ball.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0098177F
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      Blue cloth cover, unadorned.
      The terraces of night : being further chronicles of the Club of the Round Table
      Lawrence, Margery, 1896-1969
      1936
      In his rosedale home, builder Hugh Conover stands before a collection of primitive masks from native Indian, Mexican and African sources. The antique door is one he bought from wreckers and installed in duplex the family bought.
      In his rosedale home, builder Hugh Conover stands before a collection of primitive masks from native Indian, Mexican and African sources. The antique door is one he bought from wreckers and installed in duplex the family bought.
      Norris, Dave
      11/20/1970
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      8/9/1988
      CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)
      CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)
      Monarch Maple Leaf Mills
      8/16/1983
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      8/9/1988
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      8/9/1988
      The end of the road, Where will it all end, those long files of cars on the expressways? Many of them wind up at the American Auto Wreckers yard on Pa(...)
      The end of the road, Where will it all end, those long files of cars on the expressways? Many of them wind up at the American Auto Wreckers yard on Pa(...)
      Royal Bank of Canada
      10/10/1972
      Old St. James' Square Church to close doors. Following a meeting of the congregation of St. James' United church, it was decided to close the doors of(...)
      Old St. James' Square Church to close doors. Following a meeting of the congregation of St. James' United church, it was decided to close the doors of(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/15/1929
      On Tenerife, another of the Canary Islands, much of the land is so steep the locals have to build pyramids of terraces to produce enough level ground for crops and fruit or, in this case, gardens
      On Tenerife, another of the Canary Islands, much of the land is so steep the locals have to build pyramids of terraces to produce enough level ground for crops and fruit or, in this case, gardens
      Bryant, George
      1/25/1974
      Like the broad, stone stairway to an English baronial estate, are these steps leading up flowered terraces from artificial lakes and the Rideau river (...)
      Like the broad, stone stairway to an English baronial estate, are these steps leading up flowered terraces from artificial lakes and the Rideau river (...)
      Boyd, John
      1/28/1933
      Cover has text in varied font type framed by a decorative border
      Universal moulding book, containing sections (full size) of mouldings in great variety, architraves, stair and pew railing. Brackets, pickets, lattice, scroll work, ballusters, newel posts, etc., etc. Front and inside doors, folding and sliding doors. Store doors, elevation of door and window frames. Pew ends, wood mantles, working plans, &c., &c., &c.
      Wm. Burke
      1872
      More Toronto history under the wrecker's hammer, Once the home of the largest Presbyterian congregation in Canada, Cooke's Presbyterian Church at Quee(...)
      More Toronto history under the wrecker's hammer, Once the home of the largest Presbyterian congregation in Canada, Cooke's Presbyterian Church at Quee(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      3/13/1984