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Morning Throwback: in early 1900s Toronto, knife sharpening was a form of entertainment

By Brianne Hogan

Knife sharpener on Major Street, 1913 (Toronto Archives: Fonds 1244, Item 8146)

While you lie in front of your big flat-screen TV complaining that there's nothing on, just thank your lucky stars you're not these kids from 1913, who had to go down to the old creepy knife sharpener to get their jollies.

 
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