# @toronto_archives on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNiZpU_srOF
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33999104-toronto-archives-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-19T13:01:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** City of Toronto Archives (@toronto_archives) — https://gondola.cc/toronto_archives

## Caption

Mid-century midway fun! A few scenes from the CNE throughout the 1950s. 

1. Midway and roller coaster at CNE, 1953, Photographer: Desmond E. Wainwright.
Fonds 536, Item 100.

2. Midway behind grandstand at CNE, 1955, Photographer: Desmond E. Wainwright. 
Fonds 536, Item 415.

3. Midway and Shell Tower at CNE, 1955, Fonds 536, Item 417.

4. Midway of CNE near the Pure Food Building, 1953, Photographer: Desmond E. Wainwright.
Fonds 536, Item 103.

5. CNE midway at night, 1952, Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 5687.

6. Midway behind grandstand at CNE, 1955, Photographer: Desmond E. Wainwright.
Fonds 536, Item 412.

7. Midway behind grandstand at CNE, 1955, Photographer: Desmond E. Wainwright.
Fonds 536, Item 416.

8. Slight overhead view of crowds on CNE grounds and new Shell oil tower, September 6, 1958, Fonds 1526, File 94, Item 8. 

9. Princess Marina and her daughter, Princess Alexandra, in the back of a car at the Warriors Day parade, Canada National Exhibition, 1955, Fonds 492, Item 102.

10. CNE garbage collection, ca. 1951, Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 100, Item 566.

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