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Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting
Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting

Cool Hippies huddle under blanket, with only their toes protruding, beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting

Date8/30/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cool Hippies huddle under blanket; with only their toes protruding; beside their more stalwart comrade at City Hall today waiting for Board of Control meeting.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0008370F
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      It was cool inside, too. Chilled hippies, whose planned starve-in at City Hall last night was dispersed by police, huddle under blankets beside founta(...)
      Darrell, Dick
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      Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)
      Sleep-in wakes up in the early morning light in front of City Hall, where 150 Yorkville hippies bedded down last night with sleeping bags and blankets(...)
      Griffin, Doug
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      Hippies started their combined sleep-in and starve-in by settling down with blankets, sleeping-bags and placards in circle in front of City Hall late (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      8/29/1967
      Sleep-In of 150 Yorkville hippies in front of City Hall began last night as boys and girls settled down with sleeping bags and blankets. It ended this(...)
      Sleep-In of 150 Yorkville hippies in front of City Hall began last night as boys and girls settled down with sleeping bags and blankets. It ended this(...)
      Dinsmore, Ted
      8/23/1967
      Back in his seat, but still muttering anarchy after Yorkville hippies staged a seize-in at a Board of Control meeting, Controller Allan Lamport fought(...)
      Back in his seat, but still muttering anarchy after Yorkville hippies staged a seize-in at a Board of Control meeting, Controller Allan Lamport fought(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      8/30/1967
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      How to play it cool, man. So what if the temperature is touching 90 and the humidity all but total? Just make like hippies Stu Mair, 18, and Rabbit Ch(...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      7/17/1968
      Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line
      Some of them don't work: hippies are only a tiny segment of 1 in 8 Canadians below poverty line
      Griffin, Doug
      8/24/1967
      Plucked from cake of ice on which he floated for half an hour before rescuers could reach him, 11-year-old Ciaran Griffin huddles under a blanket in a(...)
      Plucked from cake of ice on which he floated for half an hour before rescuers could reach him, 11-year-old Ciaran Griffin huddles under a blanket in a(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      1/3/1969
      First meeting in the new City Hall of the Board of Control is held today in the office of George Bell
      First meeting in the new City Hall of the Board of Control is held today in the office of George Bell
      City council members
      4/9/1965
      Pastor to hippies, Rev. George Leroy serves coffee to Lance Edwards, Dave Colby and Norm Dickson at Leroy's coffee house, The Stepping Stone, in Toronto's Yorkville area. The coffee is free
      Pastor to hippies, Rev. George Leroy serves coffee to Lance Edwards, Dave Colby and Norm Dickson at Leroy's coffee house, The Stepping Stone, in Toronto's Yorkville area. The coffee is free
      Barkley, Harold
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      Lennon, Frank
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      By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
      By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
      Darrell, Dick
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