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The Yorkville Scene

Nicholas Jennings, 'Before the Gold Rush' (Penguin), 2 June 2010

ON A SPRING night in 1965, a warm breeze blew along Toronto's Yorkville Avenue, carrying with it a strange mixture of scents: rich coffee, pungent marijuana and noxious automobile exhaust.

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