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Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. Page Sbd:een/June 25 1992 coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons clip coupons coupons coupons coupons ·and coupons coupons coupons coupons save! coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons · coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons coupons Kensington Market DRUM r---~------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, TOM'S PLACE Men's and Ladies Clothing · by Top Name Designers SUPER DISCOUNT PRICES! DISCOUNTS RANGE FROM 400!0 TO S00/0 OFF I I I I . ······················································································ i MAIL~POSTE • • Canada Post Corporation' Societe cenadienne des posies SPADINA WEST POSTAL OUTLET I I I I I I I I I I I ..... ~ College Si. • ..; .fll ~ ~-- ~ Baldwin St ::> l <
Digital Archiving Completed by the Ethnography Lab, A University of Toronto Anthropology Initiative and Produced in Collaboration with David Perlman/Wholenote Media Inc between July-December 2015. THE DRUM DIRECTORY, JUNE 25 1992 Page Dl i DR 'S directory WELCOME TO OUR NEW DIRECTORY MEMBERS FOR JUNE 1992 Morningstar Apple Tree · / Pro son Toronto Natural Food Toronto Shiatsu "'Department Store - , ·· Toronto Board of Education (see FASHION) (see HEALTij) Centre (see SPORTS & RECREATION) (see COMMUNITY) (see FOOD STORES) - I ·Brava Kay's Sushi Vena's Restaurant Epicure Cafe Tern II Art (see F AS HI ON) \ (see RESTAURANTS & (see RESTAURANTS & (see RESTAURANTS & Supplies ENTERTAINMENT) ENTERTAINMENT) ENTERTAINMENT) (s,ee ARTS & LETTERS) Grove Cycle W ringling Audio Four Sea Travel Cuts I Service (see RESTAURANTS & Toronto (see SPORTS & RECREATION) (see SERVICES) ENTERTAINMENT) ' (see TRAVEL) Waki Wear (see FASHION) ~Jjj .;:)Ul() Ji:::l'# ', farmer bob invites you to meet the -merchants #4: BANANAS by Robert Boucher Imagine finding yourself on Kensington Avenue and it's about 1930. Enter 66 Kensington Avenue. It's the Sanci banana shop and all you see are bananas--clusters of bananas hanging Sicily, arrived in Canada in 1912 but everywhere. From the ceiling', still on before setting up shop in Kensington the stalks they grew from. On the back in 1914 he had set up a shop counters, bananas, just t;>ananas, wall- with a partner on Queen Street West to-wall-bananas. If you were adventur- where the Sheraton Hotel now stands. ous you might purchase some red Here he ran what was a fruit and candy bananas that were available occasional- store selling tasty treats like freshly ly. Behind the counter you would meet dipped chocolate bananas and almonds. Salvatore Sanci and/or his wife Antonia It was about this time that Salvatore who would cheerfully sell you all the married Antonia the girl he knew from bananas you required. Bananas sold his hometown in Sicily. La(er Salvatore then at 15 cents a ':lozen for IC,~rge ones (who was known as Sam) set up shop or 10 cents for small. The Sancis' two with a partner at 487 Yonge Street daughters, Anne and Frances, who (where the Westbury Hotel now were just toddlers at: the time would stands). It was here· that he started probably be found playing somewhere wholesaling bananas from the basenear. ment of this fruit store. Finding himself Salvatore Sanci, an -Italian from faced with the problem of unloading over-ripe bananas on Yonge Street he brought the fruit to the streets of the Jewish Market. At reduced prices he quickly unloaded his bananas right off his truck to eager customers. So impressed was he that he decided he would set up his own shop here. During the late 1920s he opened shop at a location he rented at 54 Kensington Avenue. Hefe he sold only ban~mas as was the way it was in those days when the shops in the Market were for the most part very specialized. Salvatore had his foot in Kensington alright but being Catholic in what was virtually a very Jewish market place he had a small problem. He wanted to buy his own property here. Continued on D4
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