History Post-confederation (1867-)
I Remember Sunnyside
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1996
- Category
- Post-Confederation (1867-), Amusement & Theme Parks, Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550022742
- Publish Date
- Oct 1996
- List Price
- $18.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459713383
- Publish Date
- Oct 1996
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
First published in 1982, I Remember Sunnyside is a mine of golden memories, bringing back to life an earlier Toronto, only hints of which remain today.
Like the city itself, Sunnyside was an everchanging landscape from its heady opening days in the early 1920s to its final sad demolition in the 1950s. The book captures the spirit of the best of times a magical era which can only be recaptured in memory and photographs. It also presents the reality of a newer Toronto where change, although necessary, is sometimes regrettable.
About the author
Mike Filey was born in Toronto in 1941. He has written more than two dozen books on various facets of Toronto's past and for more than 35 years has contributed a popular column, "The Way We Were," to the Toronto Sunday Sun. His Toronto Sketches series is more popular now than ever before.
Editorial Reviews
"It is a tribute to Filey's storytelling abilities that he can still tantalize so many Torontonians with the memory of an amusement park that ignominiously met the wrecker's ball more than 40 years ago."
Canadian Book Review Annual