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Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.

Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.

Date10/7/1982
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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_0126108F
Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
Hitting the bricks for a pay increase of 40 cents an hour over the next two years are these Metro outside workers
11/3/1966
Preparation of radio-active isotopes is done by remote control and the operator is protected by a thick wall of lead bricks
Preparation of radio-active isotopes is done by remote control and the operator is protected by a thick wall of lead bricks
12/29/1947
Richard Cyyde Larkin: United States deputy consul-general. Pickets don't worry him as long as they don't throw bricks
Richard Cyyde Larkin: United States deputy consul-general. Pickets don't worry him as long as they don't throw bricks
12/2/1964
Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks
Hot stuff: Chromalox president John Fowler hopes others will follow Pennsylvania and encourage the use of its electric furnace built around a core of bricks
11/22/1990
Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
Perilous work: Firefighter John DiFrancesco is treated by paramedics after 90 kilograms (200 pounds) of bricks fell on his head from blazing hotel yesterday
10/15/1991
Gunning for bad bricks
Gunning for bad bricks
3/31/1992
Agripina Yuincho, 6, and her father Agabito live in a barren hut hastily constructed from unmortared bricks
Agripina Yuincho, 6, and her father Agabito live in a barren hut hastily constructed from unmortared bricks
4/28/1991
Nothing orthodox: Gwenlynn Little (left) pulls on a gadget called a Bullworker while student Jane Gooderheart (centre) lugs two bags of bricks and Lois McDonall feels her diaphragm in a scene typifying the seemingly strange exercises at their studios in Toronto
Nothing orthodox: Gwenlynn Little (left) pulls on a gadget called a Bullworker while student Jane Gooderheart (centre) lugs two bags of bricks and Lois McDonall feels her diaphragm in a scene typifying the seemingly strange exercises at their studios in Toronto
3/14/1984
A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
A touchdown. Argos Condredge Holloway: left: and John Foubert knock some bricks from the old Alexandra Wing to Toronto Western Hospital to mark the st(...)
6/22/1981
Human chain passed 42,000 bricks to the bricklayers
Human chain passed 42,000 bricks to the bricklayers
8/24/1986
Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
7/25/1984
It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
It's all for Women's Lib, say 18-year-old Bev Wooton (left) and 17-year-old Lorrie Wilson as they hammer and chip away at a huge pile of bricks on dem(...)
8/25/1971