{"id":22295,"date":"2021-12-24T01:03:11","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T05:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22295"},"modified":"2021-12-24T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T04:02:51","slug":"a-really-snowy-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-really-snowy-white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"a really snowy white Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22297\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22297\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/snow-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">December 1941 snow fall in Toronto by Alexandra Studios courtesy of the Toronto Star<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. On December 11, 1944 Toronto had its worst snowfall ever. Over a half metre of snow fell on the city. Nothing moved. A recently married future father-in-law and his friend traipsed blocks along the New Toronto streets to get to work &#8211; a story told to my wife when she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>A photographer from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-turofsky-brothers-sports-photographers\/\">Alexandra studios<\/a> captured the shot shown at left. It is one of a series called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.thestar.com\/125-years-of-star-photos\/\">125 Years of Star Photos<\/a>&#8221; that appeared in the Toronto Star back on November 3, 2017 before this nasty virus arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A big &#8216;thank you&#8217; to one of the best camera repairmen in the city (now retired), Ulrich Barthel. Ulrich sent me an email with the link to the Star article. For many years Ulrich was a PHSC member &#8211; his Rollei collection was often on display at our fairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. On December 11, 1944 Toronto had its worst snowfall ever. Over a half metre of snow fell on the city. Nothing moved. A recently married future father-in-law and his friend traipsed blocks along the New Toronto streets to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-really-snowy-white-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[3984,3985,3986,339,220,991,3317,264],"class_list":["post-22295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-alexandra-studios","tag-camera-repair","tag-new-toronto","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-snow","tag-storm","tag-toronto-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22300,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22295\/revisions\/22300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}