Miyo

Miyo Takeda (1983-2025), Toronto, July 30, 1998

I met Miyo at Canzine 1997 in Toronto, when she was 14. 

 

Music Master Radio Reproducer

 I thought it was a fake antique! It is a real speaker that would attach to a radio. It was made sometime between 1924 and 1926 by the Music Master Corporation, 10th and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, previously called Geraco and General Radio Corporation. The bell is made of mahogany strips and it has a heavy base of iron and the driver seems to be aluminum and steel. Retailed originally at 35 US.

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Links:

https://newsm.org/wireless/geraco-music-master-radio-reproducer/

One for sale for 1595!

Interesting article about getting it to work with a modern amp by increasing the impedance to 600 Ohms

Snow horses outside the Riverview Group Home, Cornwall, Ontario

Beautiful snow horses outside the Riverview Group Home, Cornwall, Ontario.

 

Pussyhat abandoned

Pussyhat with the word "Justice" on band. Pussyhats were created by feminists to protest Donald Trump's election in 2016. This was in the door vestibule at a Value Village - Maybe someone dropped it and someone else put it in the window.

 

Bulk Carrier CSL Welland uses searchlight to navigate St. Lawrence

Bulk Carrier CSL Welland uses searchlight to navigate St. Lawrence near Akwesasne on its way to Toronto. The Seaway has remained open past its usual closing date in early January because early ice has slowed down shipping. January 10, 2026, 11.00 PM

 

Hogmanay 2025

 Hogmanay celebrations at the Glengarry, Nor'Westers and Loyalist Museum, Williamstown, Ontario.

Horses and carriage, Neil Emberg plays 'Black Velvet Band', a tune popularized by The Irish Rovers.

Last Dionne Quintuplet dies

 

A souvenir photo from the 1930s of the Dionne Quintuplets and Dr Dafoe, who delivered them, at a flea market. Annette Dionne, (first from left) the last Dionne, died this Christmas Eve.  They had been made into a tourist attraction by the government of Ontario and this photo was probably sold at the home built for them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionne_quintuplets