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Morning Throwback: before street art pianos, Torontonians listened to sweet sounds from these guys

By Brianne Hogan

Maple Leaf Gardens ice show performers with piano, circa 1950 (Toronto archives: Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 6798)

After a hard night's work of tickling those ivories, these performers would congratulate each other, knock back a few gin and tonics and go off to play a game of drunken pétanque.

 
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