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Breathing fire: A 50-foot dragon with flapping wings, claws out-stretched and simulated flames belching from its toothy maw drew rave reviews at the annual Santa Claus Parade yesterday
Breathing fire: A 50-foot dragon with flapping wings, claws out-stretched and simulated flames belching from its toothy maw drew rave reviews at the annual Santa Claus Parade yesterday

Breathing fire: A 50-foot dragon with flapping wings, claws out-stretched and simulated flames belching from its toothy maw drew rave reviews at the annual Santa Claus Parade yesterday

Date11/17/1985
Names
FormatPicture
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0010752F
Brush with death. With flames licking at their backs and toxic black smoke belching around them, firemen fled and were pulled from a Parliament St. bu(...)
Brush with death. With flames licking at their backs and toxic black smoke belching around them, firemen fled and were pulled from a Parliament St. bu(...)
McConnell, Colin
2/27/1980
Deborah Kerr's a model of propriety but, provoked, she can show her claws
Deborah Kerr's a model of propriety but, provoked, she can show her claws
Bezant, Graham
9/2/1978
Paws and claws : being true stories of clever creatures, tame and wild
Paws and claws : being true stories of clever creatures, tame and wild
Cassell, Petter, & Galpin
1875
Dragon man: Gene Simmons was back in his old form at the Gardens Friday, spitting blood, belching fire and performing the kinds of antics that made him a rock n roll hero
Dragon man: Gene Simmons was back in his old form at the Gardens Friday, spitting blood, belching fire and performing the kinds of antics that made him a rock n roll hero
Kiss (Musical group)
1/14/1983
Flames soar at factory blaze. It took about 50 firefighters more than three hours to control a fire at an abandoned tire factory on Bloor St. W., west(...)
Flames soar at factory blaze. It took about 50 firefighters more than three hours to control a fire at an abandoned tire factory on Bloor St. W., west(...)
Cooper, David
5/18/1983
Too close for comfort. Detroit Red Wings goalie Hanlon could use a little breathing room as teammate Joe Kocur (26) and Leafs' Al Secored tangle a lit(...)
Too close for comfort. Detroit Red Wings goalie Hanlon could use a little breathing room as teammate Joe Kocur (26) and Leafs' Al Secored tangle a lit(...)
Russell, Jim
9/27/1988
Braving intense heat and flames, 50 firefighters worked two hours to keep flames from reaching a storage shed containing volatile raw materials that o(...)
Braving intense heat and flames, 50 firefighters worked two hours to keep flames from reaching a storage shed containing volatile raw materials that o(...)
Goode, Jeff
7/15/1976
Children who'll open their eyes wide at a distant view of lighted Christmas tree may hide them from a close-up of a living, breathing Santa Claus. Sta(...)
Children who'll open their eyes wide at a distant view of lighted Christmas tree may hide them from a close-up of a living, breathing Santa Claus. Sta(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
n.d.
Black activist Richard Dildy - who was once arrested for proclaiming Santa a fraud during Toronto's annual Santa Claus parade - is dead at age 47. He died of kidney and liver failure in Wellesley Hospital Friday. The United States-born insurance salesman spent most of his life trying to convince parents to stop telling children that Santa Claus is coming to town. [Incomplete]
Black activist Richard Dildy - who was once arrested for proclaiming Santa a fraud during Toronto's annual Santa Claus parade - is dead at age 47. He died of kidney and liver failure in Wellesley Hospital Friday. The United States-born insurance salesman spent most of his life trying to convince parents to stop telling children that Santa Claus is coming to town. [Incomplete]
Stawicki, Andrew
4/9/1987
It's Santa's parade on Sunday, The 72nd annual Eaton's Santa Claus Parade gets off the mark Sunday at 1
It's Santa's parade on Sunday, The 72nd annual Eaton's Santa Claus Parade gets off the mark Sunday at 1
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
11/8/1976
Santa's here: Santa Claus arrived in time for Mississauga's annual parade last week, much to the delight of a crowd of 70,000 people
Santa's here: Santa Claus arrived in time for Mississauga's annual parade last week, much to the delight of a crowd of 70,000 people
Gower, Patti
11/8/1992
Merry old Santa practises a high wave for the hundreds of thousands expected to turn out for today's 85th annual Santa Claus Parade, which starts at C(...)
Merry old Santa practises a high wave for the hundreds of thousands expected to turn out for today's 85th annual Santa Claus Parade, which starts at C(...)
Loek, Dick
11/17/1990