LH2833 Burns Shoes - Car Collision
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- Pedestrians have begun to stop and view the events unfolding at the corner of Simcoe Street, and King Street West. A the same time, a fire is taking place in the block south of the store. Stores on east side of Simcoe Street south are visible: Fox Ladies Wear, Arthur Murray Studios, and Pacific Finance
- Notes
- A fire broke out on the evening of Tuesday, 10 Jan 1961, on Simcoe Street, South of King.. More than 120 firefighters and 11 trucks from Oshawa, Whitby, Pickering, Brooklin, and Bowmanville were called in to fight the blaze, considered the worst fire in Oshawa's history (at the time). The fire appears to have started above the Fashion Village shop and spread quickly. It lasted 15 hours and the damages were estimated at $500,000.
- Date of Publication
- 10 Jan 1961
- Date Of Event
- 10 Jan 1961
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Burns Shoes
- Local identifier
- LH2833
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.90012 Longitude: -78.84957
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- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- PHOTO GPC B-007 000447
- Terms of Use
- please credit Oshawa Public Libraries, Local History Collection
- Contact
- Oshawa Public LibrariesEmail:nadams@oshawalibrary.on.ca
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Nicole Adams, Local History and Genealogy Librarian
65 Bagot Street
Oshawa, ON L1H 1N2
905-579-6111 EXT 5253
