Skid row elixir
Date9/6/1979
Names
Spremo, Boris
(photographer)
Toronto Star (Firm)
(publisher)
Alternate Title
- Skid row elixir: This is a common sight in old Cabbagetown but as its cheap rooms and flophouses give way to middle class 'White painters; skid row inhabitants are trapped in a housing crisis so severe that it has forced the city to become a flophouse landlord. It's different here now; says one skid row habitue. All the old faces have gone.
- Skid row elixir
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NotesOriginal Toronto Star caption: Skid row elixir: This is a common sight in old Cabbagetown but as its cheap rooms and flophouses give way to middle class 'White painters; skid row inhabitants are trapped in a housing crisis so severe that it has forced the city to become a flophouse landlord. It's different here now; says one skid row habitue. All the old faces have gone.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001308F
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