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The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house
The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house

The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house

Date7/17/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: The other world: Wylie in phone booth making her daily contact with the world outside her life in a boarding house.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
    Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0090234F
    Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
    Time to think: Masquerading as a former mental patient, Betty Jane Wylie found her boarding house offered little privacy, and spent a lot of time walking or sunning
    McConnell, Colin
    7/17/1981
    Happy 105th birthday, mom!, Victoria Booth and her daughter Edna Ford (right) talk on the phone three times a day but they chatted face to face yester(...)
    Happy 105th birthday, mom!, Victoria Booth and her daughter Edna Ford (right) talk on the phone three times a day but they chatted face to face yester(...)
    Russell, Jim
    10/14/1986
    Sunshine smile: The actress who entranced the world in the move Never On Sunday, Melina Mercouri checks out the Rosedale house where her husband is making a movie
    Sunshine smile: The actress who entranced the world in the move Never On Sunday, Melina Mercouri checks out the Rosedale house where her husband is making a movie
    Bezant, Graham
    8/9/1979
    Mrs. Ann Fenn, the retired nurse who believes her misison is to operate a boarding house that women on old-age pensions can afford, gives a comforting(...)
    Mrs. Ann Fenn, the retired nurse who believes her misison is to operate a boarding house that women on old-age pensions can afford, gives a comforting(...)
    Bezant, Graham
    5/1/1967
    Back home in Timmins with Canada's only first-place gold medal from the Winter Olympics, skier Kathy Kreiner is applauded by her father, Dr. Harold Kreiner (right), and 1,000 other people in the Community Sportsplex. About 200 well-wishers greeted her at the tiny Timmins airport, others lined the seven-mile road into town. Kathy surprised the ski world by winning the women's giant slalom.
    Back home in Timmins with Canada's only first-place gold medal from the Winter Olympics, skier Kathy Kreiner is applauded by her father, Dr. Harold Kreiner (right), and 1,000 other people in the Community Sportsplex. About 200 well-wishers greeted her at the tiny Timmins airport, others lined the seven-mile road into town. Kathy surprised the ski world by winning the women's giant slalom.
    Bull, Ron
    2/15/1976
    The phone works! The storm destroyed her farm house just south of Dundalk, but the phone - somehow in working order - rang and Sheila Hannon Ruttan, still in shock, proceeded to answer
    The phone works! The storm destroyed her farm house just south of Dundalk, but the phone - somehow in working order - rang and Sheila Hannon Ruttan, still in shock, proceeded to answer
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    6/1/1985
    Making merry: Ann Harrison of Don Mills, who underwent the world's first successful double lung transplant a year ago, is looking forward to a happy Christmas with her family
    Making merry: Ann Harrison of Don Mills, who underwent the world's first successful double lung transplant a year ago, is looking forward to a happy Christmas with her family
    Slaughter, Mike
    12/17/1987
    Giving up throne: Heather McKay of East York, making the draw for the Women's World open squash championships, has decided to abdicate her throne as the women's greatest squash player
    Giving up throne: Heather McKay of East York, making the draw for the Women's World open squash championships, has decided to abdicate her throne as the women's greatest squash player
    Mahler, John
    10/7/1981
    Bell telephone thinks of everything - including portable phone booths for Open spectators
    Bell telephone thinks of everything - including portable phone booths for Open spectators
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    7/29/1983
    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
    Good design .....and bad, More imagination with public, amenities, like the phone booth at left in Chinatown, can add to street design, say the author(...)
    Good design .....and bad, More imagination with public, amenities, like the phone booth at left in Chinatown, can add to street design, say the author(...)
    Bezant, Graham
    6/13/1974
    Bell telephone booth, Millions use phone system
    Bell telephone booth, Millions use phone system
    Spremo, Boris
    11/20/1972