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Hopes alive: Are the Ex's games of skill and chance - which once lured a small boy desperate with urgent longing for a prize - less challenging and imaginative?
Hopes alive: Are the Ex's games of skill and chance - which once lured a small boy desperate with urgent longing for a prize - less challenging and imaginative?

Hopes alive: Are the Ex's games of skill and chance - which once lured a small boy desperate with urgent longing for a prize - less challenging and imaginative?

Date8/26/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hopes alive: Are the Ex's games of skill and chance - which once lured a small boy desperate with urgent longing for a prize - less challenging and imaginative?
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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_0111938F
Posters such as this one from 1930 lured visitors to the CNE but today times have changed, say officials, and Ex must have star
Posters such as this one from 1930 lured visitors to the CNE but today times have changed, say officials, and Ex must have star
10/18/1956
Widely imitated: The highly imaginative equipment at Children's Village, such as this rope climb, is a big hit with kids
Widely imitated: The highly imaginative equipment at Children's Village, such as this rope climb, is a big hit with kids
5/17/1978
All in at once for big C.N.E. Swim, Splash, and 80 men plunge for the 10-mile marathon swim at Ex - $ 350 has brought entries from all over the continent, hibition Park to-day
All in at once for big C.N.E. Swim, Splash, and 80 men plunge for the 10-mile marathon swim at Ex - $ 350 has brought entries from all over the continent, hibition Park to-day
8/31/1937
Wayward driver, Ed Hore, one of several clowns doing the rounds at the Ex, has found an ideal way to get around obstacles - he rides a cycle that will go in two directions at once
Wayward driver, Ed Hore, one of several clowns doing the rounds at the Ex, has found an ideal way to get around obstacles - he rides a cycle that will go in two directions at once
8/17/1979
Crown and Anchor games along the midway drew good crowds yesterday on the CNE' s opening day
Crown and Anchor games along the midway drew good crowds yesterday on the CNE' s opening day
8/20/1970
Tally-ho, Warming up for the Sportsmen's Show, which runs all this week at the CNE, Joan Dales of Newmarket puts her three prize golden retrievers through field trails
Tally-ho, Warming up for the Sportsmen's Show, which runs all this week at the CNE, Joan Dales of Newmarket puts her three prize golden retrievers through field trails
3/14/1978
Sherlock Holmes is alive and well at the Central Library and on exhibition
Sherlock Holmes is alive and well at the Central Library and on exhibition
1971
Snakes alive!, John Bueglas is all wrapped up by his 10-foot boa Constrictor
Snakes alive!, John Bueglas is all wrapped up by his 10-foot boa Constrictor
3/18/1986
Lured by games
Lured by games
5/3/1984
And that's no bull! Federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan displays the beef T-shirt he got from Beth Gehring at the Ex's beef information centre.(...)
And that's no bull! Federal Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan displays the beef T-shirt he got from Beth Gehring at the Ex's beef information centre.(...)
8/27/1981
Ontario place nearing completion, Deadline for completion of Ontario Place on the CNE waterfront is less than a month away with opening date scheduled for May 22
Ontario place nearing completion, Deadline for completion of Ontario Place on the CNE waterfront is less than a month away with opening date scheduled for May 22
4/22/1971
. . . but he's less than amused when he gets walked all over by a goat
. . . but he's less than amused when he gets walked all over by a goat
11/15/1991