Today’s Vintage Photo Tuesday is focusing on Toronto Life in the 1940’s & 1950’s, specifically the meetings, committees and clubs that gathered there.

Let’s begin!

Vintage Photos of Toronto Meetings, Committees & Clubs

1940s & 1950s

Tall men in front of the bar, short men behind it. 1956 National Cash Register Rod & Gun tour of O’Keefe’s Pub, Toronto.

Russell Spanner (centre) & Friends at Club Norman around 1951. Russell was a 1950’s Space Age Furniture designer in Toronto. Stay tuned on a future post all about his designs.

Toronto Symphony Women’s Committee ca 1945.

Walsh Advertising-1950’s Creative Art Meeting for what appears to be for a car.

Vickers & Benson Advertising conducting a meeting at the Club One Two in the 1950’s (maybe about their competition above??).

Another advertising meeting but this time at the famous O’Keefe’s Pub (this pub was clearly popular in the 1950’s with the working set). What do you think is happening in this photo? Did Esther’s work get chosen?

1956- a reception for the Canadian Olympic Team and members of the Canadian Olympic Association in the office of City of Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips.

Go Meteor Now! 1956 Meeting at the Historical Royal York Hotel for Ford’s the “Meteor” automobile.

Further Reading: Vintage Glamour-The Historic Royal York Hotel, Toronto Canada

Shell sales meeting at the King Edward Hotel-1950’s. Complete with a showgirl handing out gifts and drunken sing-a-longs.

Hope you enjoyed this week’s Vintage Photo Tuesday! Share your favourite photo in the comments section below.

Further Reading:

• Vintage Photos from the 1920s-1960s (archived blog posts)
• Vintage Toronto Blog Posts 1920s-1960s (archived)

Liz