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Vintage Toronto Ads: Cadillac Snowbird

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Imagine what the Caddy would think of this month’s snowfall. The car wouldn’t bother waiting for a driver to take in the greyhounds before the next storm strikes.
Cars were sold at the northwest corner of Bay and Grenville for over 80 years, starting in 1925 with a dealership owned by General Motors of Canada president Sam McLaughlin. Addison took over in 1955 and remained until the lot closed last March. The heritage-designated building will be integrated into a condominium project.
As for who this vehicle would find down south, Woody Woodbury was a Florida-based comedian whose booze-centric routines were preserved on a series of adult “party records” in the 1960s. Considered too raunchy for radio airplay, his albums contained enough mild innuendo to add a naughty touch to any respectable Cadillac owner’s cocktail party.
Source: Toronto Life, February 1967

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  • davidcreed

    I find it disconcerting that something the same age as my children is described as “Vintage”. That should be reserved for things that existed when my parents were young (i.e. the thirties and forties”