{"id":32522,"date":"2025-10-13T01:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=32522"},"modified":"2025-10-11T02:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T06:25:07","slug":"celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_32524\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VE-day-May-7-1945.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32524\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32524\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/VE-day-May-7-1945-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 7 1945 &#8211; Toronto celebrated VE day and John Boyd snapped this photo for the Globe (from the Toronto Archives).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Old Photo collectors are fortunate. There are so many categories of old photos to choose from &#8211; or collections can be eclectic!<\/p>\n<p>One such category could be tagged as &#8220;celebrations&#8221; &#8211; national events, country based events, corporate events, anniversaries, birthdays, \u00a0etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>The photo at left shows Torontonians celebrating the end of the war in Europe known as VE Day. A few months later in August it was VJ Day and the end of WW2 in Japan &#8211; and the beginning of the atomic age.<\/p>\n<p>While we can&#8217;t really say you will find &#8216;celebration&#8217; photos at our fall fair on October 19th, we can say you will find lots of interesting items for your collection. Take a peek at the poster pinned to this site until the show, or read the September <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PHSC_News_25_9.pdf\">PHSC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Old Photo collectors are fortunate. There are so many categories of old photos to choose from &#8211; or collections can be eclectic! One such category could be tagged as &#8220;celebrations&#8221; &#8211; national events, country based events, corporate events, anniversaries, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/celebrations\/\">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":[39],"tags":[500,34,279,220],"class_list":["post-32522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair","tag-accessories","tag-cameras","tag-lenses","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522","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=32522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32526,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32522\/revisions\/32526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}