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Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks
Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks

Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks

Date11/22/1990
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0127418F
      Hydro Chairman Robert Franklin hopes $10 discounts off energy-efficient shower heads will encourage residential hydro customers to use less hot water and save electricity
      Hydro Chairman Robert Franklin hopes $10 discounts off energy-efficient shower heads will encourage residential hydro customers to use less hot water and save electricity
      Bock, Tony
      4/6/1990
      A 100-year-old building on Port Hope's busy main street was wrecked yesterday when an explosion sent the roof and piles of bricks crashing down on thr(...)
      A 100-year-old building on Port Hope's busy main street was wrecked yesterday when an explosion sent the roof and piles of bricks crashing down on thr(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      8/18/1975
      It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
      It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      8/25/1971
      Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
      Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
      Bock, Tony
      10/7/1982
      A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
      A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
      Brazao, Dale
      6/22/1981
      Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
      Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
      Stancu, Henry
      10/15/1991
      Tools of trade: Mike Manley, left, hopes to make as much as $100,000 at repossessing cars using many tools, above, that would be illegal for others
      Tools of trade: Mike Manley, left, hopes to make as much as $100,000 at repossessing cars using many tools, above, that would be illegal for others
      Eglinton, Rick
      12/7/1990
      Tools of trade: Mike Manley, left, hopes to make as much as $100,000 at repossessing cars using many tools, above, that would be illegal for others.
      Tools of trade: Mike Manley, left, hopes to make as much as $100,000 at repossessing cars using many tools, above, that would be illegal for others.
      Eglinton, Rick
      12/7/1990
      Gunning for bad bricks
      Gunning for bad bricks
      Power, Peter
      3/31/1992
      Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
      Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
      Combs, Erin
      7/25/1984
      Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
      Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
      Roworth, Eddy
      11/3/1966
      On the bricks
      On the bricks
      Dunlop, Al
      7/22/1981