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<title>Don Dempson</title>
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  WOW.  I had heard about these pictures and now to see them --- what a travesty.  So many memories, so many fabulous people and now a wasteland.
  The grand old buildings, quad, fabled old elms, smoke stacks, rail lines, lawn bowling area, kids parties, AV shows and basketball games are just a memory now but all the images are embedded forever.   
  Great to see and read so many words from "the Kodak family", the people who really made Kodak what it was - an education.
  Howdy (now from Vancouver Island) to Ken "Hondo" Shaddock, Chris Durand, Jane Ashwood, Linda Greig, Tom Gorham, Chris Sommer, Gord McNelly, Al Brotherton, Bruce Walker and special regards to Gayle Patching and Connie Brooke.  For me, from 1972-97 those were the days and as Paul Anka said "The Times of Our Lives".
  The ghost of George Grigor still haunts Building 9 and whether it was on stage or the hardwood, in the basement in MEC, the manager's dining room, the old camera club room or the AV room George and Bob Bromley can still be heard encouraging the rookies and giving advice to the retirees; badgering the managers and watching young love blossom.
  Over the years it's been nice to remain close to so many Kodakers and to re-live and remember.  I can't think of another company that brought so many characters to the table and even today continues to keep the dots connected.  Cheers to everyone. 
  
     

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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:24:02 PST</pubDate>
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<title>Skye</title>
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Im sad to say It was at one point Painted over; and the paint has begun to peel off. Even if there was a little bit of the mural left it would've been covered with graffiti. ]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:28:13 PST</pubDate>
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<title>John McCombs (son of Graham)</title>
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I had the priviledge of working at Kodak in a summer position in the late 80's and early 90's but my memories are as a kid going to see Bugs Bunny cartoons on the big screen in the gym and of course the X-mas parties. My father, W.G. McCombs lives in Orillia, and through his stories I do recognize alot of the last names here. Next time I visit him I will show him this site. I for one am saddened when I saw these pics as I'm sure my father would be too but he would also remember some of the great people that worked at Kodak and this would know doubt bring a smile to his face.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:04:27 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Gayle Patching</title>
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These pictures are truly heartbreaking.  I'm glad Bob, my late husband, won't be seeing these pictures as I know they would upset him, too.  The basketball games he took part in - in that broken down gym and the number of times we brought our kids to the Christmas parties!  Lots of memories took place at "Kodak".  ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/07/the_end_of_kodachrome_and_the_death_of_kodak_heights/#c688498</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:05:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Peter (Mike) Meyers</title>
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As a U.S. based employee for 31 years, I worked at the Kodak Canada facility yearly each fall starting in the late 80's.  I would spend approximately 3 weeks maintaining and calibrating all the quality control equipment for manufacturing traceability.

My memories are very vivid of all the buildings in the picture presentation.  I was treated to lunch in the Manager's Dining Room and I can picture the beautiful staircase leading to the lunch room.  This is also where I met my wife (Gabrielle Mahan Meyers) in the previous posting.

As all things change, we don't always agree with the outcome.  Many of the buildings I supported in Rochester have gone by the wayside as those at KCI.

Thanks for the memories of all those great people I had the fortune to meet at Kodak Canada.]]>
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<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:00:19 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Gabrielle Mahan (now Meyers)</title>
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Wow...  I see so many comments from folks I use to work with at KCI. Though I moved back to the US in the late 90's and still work for Kodak but in the US, these pictures absolutly break my heart.  I have such good memories of the 10 years I spent in those building and of the amazing successes we had as Kodak employees.  I remember dressing up as the Kodak Kolorkin for all those children's Christmas parties held in the auditorium. So many great memories - time flies by too quickly. 

Progress is not always pretty.  What a great loss.

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:12:50 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Jane Ashwood (Boyko)</title>
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I worked at Kodak from 1972 until 1984 and thought it was the best place in the world to be working. The pay was good, the people were great, and the memories many. How many times we all walked through Building 9, stopped for a chat with George Grigor on our way to the cafeteria. Those walls held so many stories and so many secrets of things that were going and shouldn't have been going on. I loved setting up for Christmas in M.E.C.  and having everyone down for coffee. Couldn't have worked with a better bunch of guys and of course a couple of the girls. Sad to see the emptiness. It definitely was a place you could say "Thanks for the Memories." Still have some of the old Kodakery's around to remind me of a time when......Great editor, Don Dempson and crew. Those were the days.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:50:31 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Linda Greig</title>
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Building 5 was used as barracks by the Department of National Defence to billet WW1 troops.  The bronze commemorative plaque was removed from building 5 when Kodak evacuated the site.  This plaque along with many other valuable Kodak items were moved to the current Kodak Office location on Monogram Place.  There were also two plaques that listed the names of the Kodak Employees who passed away while serving their country during WW1 and WW2. These two plaques were located in the lobby of building 9, on either side of the main doorway.      ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:00:44 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>rick mcginnis</title>
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AutumnMarie -

What you see in the photos is it - Building 9 and the burnt-out security hut. There's nothing more. The other day I had to tell a Kodak vet that the elm trees behind the administration building - the ones they worked so hard to save over the years - are also gone.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:02:12 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>AutumnMarie</title>
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Does any of the former Kodak Factory still exist?
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:43:07 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Bill Kendall</title>
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The mural was painted over and replaced with framed pictures depicting the history of the people at Kodak Canada. 
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:17:10 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>chris durand</title>
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Hey Connie, so sad that people lose touch and get caught up in their own little worlds. I think of Bob often, such a loss to all of us.
Look for me on facebook if you want, I keep in touch with a lot of old Kodakers there.
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:42:53 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Ken Shaddock</title>
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Hi Connie... gosh it's great to see your memories added to this blog and to read that you and the kids are well. I regret not having kept in touch. Nadine and I are also well and enjoying life in cottage country... 2 miles north of where you and Bob visited. Brookie continues to be one of the most talked about guys when some of us old farts get together. Glad you have those pictures. Ken]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:42:18 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>shauna</title>
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I remember going to the annual Christmas party in Building 9 (my mother worked there for 30 years). We would watch films in the theatre, visit with Santa and recieve our gift from the jolly one himself (a 110 camera for the final year when you turned 10), one year I even met R2D2! The property looks so eerie now, haunting, like the opening credits of a horror movie. ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:18:23 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Connie Brooke</title>
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Yes, these pictures are quite sad.  I worked at Kodak from 1970-83. They were great times and so many wonderful people came into my life. One who really caught my attention was the man I married, Bob Brooke.  Our children, now 26 and 23 still remember Kodak Xmas parties and all the fabulous people who we met and socialized with...too many to mention. We are so fortunate to have all those amazing pictures of Bob with his buddies at sales meeting and social gatherings. I would like to give my regards to all of Bob's and my Kodak friends and hope you are doing well as we are.
Kodak will never be forgotten.

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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:38:43 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Joy (Mullen) Hogben</title>
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I worked at Kodak on the switchboard with "Muriel" from 1959 to 1962 when I married David Hogben who also worked there for a couple of years.   The picture of the auditorium brought back memories of the musical productions that were put on by the employees each year.   I was in Oklahoma and South Pacific.  How sad to see the deterioration of the plant and the offices. ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:43:04 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Dale Hamilton</title>
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The Kodak scene in the Mount Dennis Community Play (see my previous posting for details) is still being written. I'd love to incorporate some of the memories posted above. Let me know if, for any reason, you don't want your memories included. I won't use any names, just the memories themselves. Dale Hamilton, writer/producer, Mount Dennis Community Play.]]>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:58:45 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tom Gorham</title>
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Ken, Aaron, Jean, Christine, Doug, Natelie, Sue, Al, Bruce, Chris and Don; With all of us having 25 years plus at this site, its very difficult to see one's own family home in the condition that it is now in. Most of us started right out of school and planned to build a life there. For most of us, that is exactly what we did. The Rec building shows that at least it was left at the end for all of the memories to focus on. These people that have come forward aren't just speaking about some old heritage building. They are reliving some of the most important years of their lives. 

Weddings were planned, Jack and Jill Showers were conducted using the "Old Ball and Chain on the Groom", babies were celebrated  deaths mourned, and Canadian Musical excellence was celebrated on stage in B.9 , such as Toronto's own "Little Ceasar" of Little Ceasar and the Cousuls". 

For the upwards of 2500 people at this site, we were family. It is sad to see what is left, and it is still hard to dream about some of those products that never made it to the consumers. Perhaps that could have been the product that would have taken us into the 21st century. When one goes through the characters that we worked and lived with it often cluminates to hear what "Big Red" (Sorry Bill), one of the more notorius Westonites at the Kodak Site, would have to say about the photo. I suspect for those that believe in ghosts, Building 9 is a respository dating back to the days when the Department of National Defense used one of the buildings to billet WWI troops.

It was a big part of West Toronto Life, if not of a Centre of Ontario Manufacturing and Development Excellence.

As you can see by all of our thoughts, this place will never be forgotten, but it is hard to see it in this condition.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:54:01 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tom Gorham</title>
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Ken, Aaron, Jean, Christine, Doug, Natelie, Sue, Al, Bruce, Chris and Don; With all of us having 25 years plus at this site, its very difficult to see one's own family home in the condition that it is now in. Most of us started right out of school and planned to build a life there. For most of us, that is exactly what we did. The Rec building shows that at least it was left at the end for all of the memories to focus on. These people that have come forward aren't just speaking about some old heritage building. They are reliving some of the most important years of their lives. 

Weddings were planned, Jack and Jill Showers were conducted using the "Old Ball and Chain on the Groom", babies were celebrated  deaths mourned, and Canadian Musical excellence was celebrated on stage in B.9 , such as Toronto's own "Little Ceasar" of Little Ceasar and the Cousuls". 

For the upwards of 2500 people at this site, we were family. It is sad to see what is left, and it is still hard to dream about some of those products that never made it to the consumers. Perhaps that could have been the product that would have taken us into the 21st century. When one goes through the characters that we worked and lived with it often cluminates to hear what "Big Red" (Sorry Bill), one of the more notorius Westonites at the Kodak Site, would have to say about the photo. I suspect for those that believe in ghosts, Building 9 is a respository dating back to the days when the Department of National Defense used one of the buildings to billet WWI troops.

It was a big part of West Toronto Life, if not of a Centre of Ontario Manufacturing and Development Excellence.

As you can see by all of our thoughts, this place will never be forgotten, but it is hard to see it in this condition.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:53:59 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Chris McCrimmon</title>
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The company I worked for From 82 till 97 Multicare printing machinery, used to go to the basement printshop and there was a row of multilith presses that we used to repair. I remember the reception area vividly. what a waste of a building]]>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:40:33 PDT</pubDate>
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