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southwest corner, Yonge and Bloor, 1923.
On this day in 1925, Toronto got to use street light signals for the first time at the Yonge and Bloor intersection. Police officers (as seen above) directed traffic at the time. Read more in Mike Filey’s “The Way We Were” in today’s Toronto Sun.
photo from Toronto Archives: Fonds 1231, file 1231 it2089
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