{"product_id":"toronto-sketches-10-mike-filey-9781554887804","title":"Toronto Sketches 10: The Way We Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eMike Filey's column \"The Way We Were\" first appeared in the \u003ci\u003eToronto Sunday Sun\u003c\/i\u003e not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands on September 16, 1973. Now, almost four decades later, Filey's column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the newspaper's most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in \u003ci\u003eToronto Sketches: \"The Way We Were.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Since then another eight volumes of \u003ci\u003eToronto Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e have been published, each of which has attained great success.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 10th volume highlights some of Toronto's greatest landmarks such as the Don Jail and its graves and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island. Mike also steps back in time to revisit the Avrocar, the flying saucer of the Great White North; takes a peek at Miss Toronto of 1926; conjures up The Hollywood, the city's first \"talkie\" theatre; and recalls historic snow days Canada's largest city has experienced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Filey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1554887801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781554887804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dundurn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mike Filey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124861595903,"sku":"9781554887804","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a74bb612-5921-48a9-90a0-49a5eccd64cb.jpg?v=1687439252","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toronto-sketches-10-mike-filey-9781554887804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}