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Ricky Davis. Meets benefactors. Ricky Davis is only 3 1/2 years old, so he didn't understand why 3,000 Shriners and their wives applauded him yesterda(...)
Ricky Davis. Meets benefactors. Ricky Davis is only 3 1/2 years old, so he didn't understand why 3,000 Shriners and their wives applauded him yesterda(...)

Ricky Davis. Meets benefactors. Ricky Davis is only 3 1/2 years old, so he didn't understand why 3,000 Shriners and their wives applauded him yesterda(...)

Date7/3/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ricky Davis. Meets benefactors. Ricky Davis is only 3 1/2 years old; so he didn't understand why 3;000 Shriners and their wives applauded him yesterday. He didn't understand the tears in their eyes; either; or why his mother took pictures of him playing with a balloon. Ricky has no arms. But; thanks to the Shriners; he's been fitted with ar- [Incomplete]
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0014702F
Wearing a woody who? button, Ricky Davis, who got his artificial arms in a Shriner Hospital, plays with the man who today becomes Imperial Potentate o(...)
Wearing a woody who? button, Ricky Davis, who got his artificial arms in a Shriner Hospital, plays with the man who today becomes Imperial Potentate o(...)
7/2/1975
A Devil tempts a Metro policeman into a dance yesterday as the big Shriners parade rolled north, with its 135 bands so closely spaced that spectators (...)
A Devil tempts a Metro policeman into a dance yesterday as the big Shriners parade rolled north, with its 135 bands so closely spaced that spectators (...)
7/1/1975
Out of gas at the very beginning of the seven-hour parade of Shriners today, a member of the Al Koran clown unit gets a fill-up from a fellow Shriner (...)
Out of gas at the very beginning of the seven-hour parade of Shriners today, a member of the Al Koran clown unit gets a fill-up from a fellow Shriner (...)
7/1/1975
Shriners - up to 1975
Shriners - up to 1975
n.d.
Oriental band, composed of Shriners from Hamilton, play outside Queen Elizabeth Building as 350 Canadians were inducted into the international organiz(...)
Oriental band, composed of Shriners from Hamilton, play outside Queen Elizabeth Building as 350 Canadians were inducted into the international organiz(...)
6/29/1975
Honor guard of Shriners salutes, with outstretched arms, as potentate enter St
Honor guard of Shriners salutes, with outstretched arms, as potentate enter St
6/29/1975
Daddy hasn't come by yet, Seven-year-old Debbie Jones and her brother, Harold, 11, wanted to see their father in the Shriners' parade last night - but(...)
Daddy hasn't come by yet, Seven-year-old Debbie Jones and her brother, Harold, 11, wanted to see their father in the Shriners' parade last night - but(...)
n.d.
Parading up University Ave. in today's 14,000-strong Shriners parade, members of the Go Cart patrol from the Peel Shrine Club roll along in their mini(...)
Parading up University Ave. in today's 14,000-strong Shriners parade, members of the Go Cart patrol from the Peel Shrine Club roll along in their mini(...)
7/1/1975
Largest convention ever in Toronto was the Shriners', above, last year
Largest convention ever in Toronto was the Shriners', above, last year
6/29/1975
Parade of shriners says it's circus time! The first annual Shrine Circus parade - including 35 units of marching bands, drill teams and motorcades - w(...)
Parade of shriners says it's circus time! The first annual Shrine Circus parade - including 35 units of marching bands, drill teams and motorcades - w(...)
7/15/1984
Before folding their tents and stealing away, four of 65,000 Shriners in Toronto all week for their annual convention soak their aching feet in bucket(...)
Before folding their tents and stealing away, four of 65,000 Shriners in Toronto all week for their annual convention soak their aching feet in bucket(...)
7/4/1975
Shriners - up to 1975
Shriners - up to 1975
7/3/1975