Bar at Club Bayview, May 2, 1952

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of the bar at Club Bayview.

Notes

Club Bayview was a dance hall that was was built in 1946 by Harold Rowley. It was located on the west side of Byron Street north of Highway 401. The dance hall was destroyed by fire in 1965.

Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.)

Date of Original

7 May 1952

Dimensions

Width: 4 in
Height: 3 in

Subject(s)

Bars
Clubs
Dance halls
Photographers
Social & civic facilities

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie

Corporate Name(s)

Club Bayview

Local identifier

A2013_040_271

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Images Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8676120044201 Longitude: -78.9389854365539

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This item is protected by the Canadian Copyright Act and is intended for one-time use only. Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). It is your responsibility for obtaining these permissions.

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