Roar of subway trains keeps the 75-year-old owner of this home awake every night, he complained to Board of Control yesterday. House, on Parkview Gard(...)

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Roar of subway trains keeps the 75-year-old owner of this home awake every night, he complained to Board of Control yesterday. House, on Parkview Gard(...)

Date5/30/1968

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Darrell, Dick (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Toronto Transit Commission (subject)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Roar of subway trains keeps the 75-year-old owner of this home awake every night; he complained to Board of Control yesterday. House; on Parkview Gardens; is just 17 feet from elevated open-cut section of east-west subway. Owner Dr. W. W. Macdonald has asked TTC to stop running trains in middle of night.

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