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By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville
By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville

By Bike, by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville

Date8/22/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: By Bike; by broom - Hippies fight the cars in Yorkville. Left: Two hippies; riding tandem on a bike on traffice-clogged Yorkville last night; carry their protest sign past patrolling policeman in second night of demonstration. Sign reads: Help Yorkville survive-stop traffic . . . be non-violent. Hippies want street closed to automobiles and turned into a pedestrian mall. [Incomplete]
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0008388F
      By Bike, by broom -- hippies fight the cars in yorkville
      By Bike, by broom -- hippies fight the cars in yorkville
      Darrell, Dick
      1/1/1967
      By Bike, by Broom -- Hippies Fight the cars in Yorkvill
      By Bike, by Broom -- Hippies Fight the cars in Yorkvill
      Darrell, Dick
      8/21/1967
      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
      9/2/1969
      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
      8/24/1967
      On a corpuscle kick, dozens of barefoot, long-haired Yorkville hippies troop into Moss Park Armoury after Barbara Kelly, Miss Canada 1967, invited the(...)
      On a corpuscle kick, dozens of barefoot, long-haired Yorkville hippies troop into Moss Park Armoury after Barbara Kelly, Miss Canada 1967, invited the(...)
      Dutton, Don
      7/26/1967
      Yorkville Hippies' spokesman David Depoe
      Yorkville Hippies' spokesman David Depoe
      DePoe, David
      9/26/1967
      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
      The love-in gave dignified Robert Gilgour chance to dance with pretty hippies on lawn at Queen's Park, when his Yorkville friends complained about the arrests at burn-in,
      The love-in gave dignified Robert Gilgour chance to dance with pretty hippies on lawn at Queen's Park, when his Yorkville friends complained about the arrests at burn-in,
      Lennon, Frank
      n.d.
      June Callwood, in private life Mrs. Trent Frayne, is a writer fighting for rights of the Yorkville hippies. She has four children from 23 to 7
      June Callwood, in private life Mrs. Trent Frayne, is a writer fighting for rights of the Yorkville hippies. She has four children from 23 to 7
      Callwood, June Rose, 1924-2007
      8/22/1968
      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
      The world of the hippies
      The world of the hippies
      Lennon, Frank
      8/9/1967
      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