Club Q Q107-Loyalty Club (Southern ON Only) v4

[the H team]

morning Q sters,

a very foggy morning going to work. passed a couple of fender benders, nothing too serious. be careful out there & if you're walking, wear something reflective to be seen.
thanx for the shuffle congrats, i thoroughly enjoyed it. had it cranked up at work. 3 of my favourite groups, AC/DC, Van Halen & Def Leppard.
have a great tuesday & be safe.

I Guess I did not do too bad today...
Dominik played a "Quick" Game today.
He Played "Fast Fingers", which was basically "the 1st Caller Wins".
It seems that my Fingers are "Smokin'"!!

Scored a 4x Pack of Tickets to Comfortably Numb in Feb (19+ Show).

CONGRATS ON YOUR TICKET WIN, WOLFIE!
and winning keeps right on going.

Congratz on getting your shuffle played H team. Maybe crazy redneck can build you a cupboard for that crate of Q mugz.

thanx jester. the good thing about the crate of them, is everyone gets one so i don't need the cupboard, but if he wants to help put the laminant flooring down, he's more than welcome.

[22hicks]

g.m. all; congrats to H Team & Wolfie

[the H team]

this video is really awesome. great stunts & scenery. i'm sure i saw attitash & mcskier in there too.


http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=EEu42L0ufBY

[Karl Stiel]

hey Q's playing my shuffle.

Congrats H Team
I was lucky to win mugs in November and again in December and both times I was out of town and didn't hear my selected tunes, But thats OK also won the lunch at the workplace for December and that was way cooler!
Cheers & Good Luck for the Lunch

[rockit]

Morning Q-mates
it's a soggy foggy tuesday
have a good one friends

[ecat444]

Good Morning All!

Looks like a few new congrats are in order to Wolfie on your win, Loocie on her new blue and H Team for the workplace shuffle! Congrats to all!

[feetfrown]

[jonesy]

I Guess I did not do too bad today...
Dominik played a "Quick" Game today.
He Played "Fast Fingers", which was basically "the 1st Caller Wins".
It seems that my Fingers are "Smokin'"!!

Scored a 4x Pack of Tickets to Comfortably Numb in Feb (19+ Show).

Nice win, Wolfie! Way to go!

[WolfDio]

Still Foggy out there...



Still Foggy in here, too:



So, I Guess all is Normal.

[hmjm61]

Enjoy the evening.

[WolfDio]

The very first Miss Toronto pageant ever, which was held in 1926, back when people made their bathing suits out of wool. The event was held at the Sunnyside Bathing Pavillion (which is still there) down by the lake. The organization of the event was eventually taken over by the Toronto Police about a decade later and moved to the CNE grounds.


They picked a Miss Toronto every year until 1991.

[WolfDio]

Map of Toronto in 1894:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._1894large.jpg

[WolfDio]

The Very First Ride At The CNE.



It all started back in the mid-1800s, as a relatively small provincial fair. They held it in a field out behind Upper Canada College, which in those days was on King Street (on the northwest corner of Simcoe, across from where Roy Thompson Hall is now). It was a very agricultural affair. They had cows and sheep and horses and blankets and knitting and needlework. The cheese was very popular. So was the wax fruit. The day ended with a big dinner at the Lieutenant Governor's residence across the street. The city's bigwigs were all there; they declared it a success.


For the next few decades, the fair toured around the province, moving from one city to another each year. Mostly, it came here and to Kingston and London and Hamilton. And as it grew, we started putting up permanent buildings for it. A Crystal Palace was the first to go up. And we set aside some land for it, too, part of the old Garrison military reserve that the government had held on to ever since our city was founded. A century and a half later, the Ex is still held on that same ground.


It wasn't until 1879, though, that we decided to have the fair here every year. And that we'd call it the Canadian National Exhibition. The CNE was officially born. By then, the fair was a huge freaking deal. There were 23 permanent buildings on the site. Thousands of exhibits. It drew more than 100,000 visitors that first year.


Now, no one, it seems, is quite sure exactly when the CNE's first ride opened. It might have been that year, or, at the very least, soon after. It was a tiny little Ferris Wheel. Just 15 feet high. It had four buckets; they could hold two people each. And the whole thing had to be powered by hand. It was such an early prototype that people didn't even call them Ferris Wheels yet. That didn't happen until about a year after this photo was taken, when George Ferris Jr. unveiled his enormous creation at the Chicago World's Fair. Tens of thousands of pounds of iron and steel. Enough room for more than two thousand people. All powered by steam engines. The world of amusement park rides had changed forever. And the Ex didn't waste any time following suit. The very next year, our fair boasted "Ferris Wheels, Carousals, Swings and other amusements for young and old." Soon, there would be an entire midway.

[WolfDio]

Single truck car 325, at Danforth and Broadview, 1896. Photograph by Alfred Pearson. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3369.

[WolfDio]

Double truck open cars #1 and #3, Long Branch Line (Lakeshore Road near Indian Road), 1896. Photograph by Alfred Pearson. City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 16, Series 71, Item 3371.