- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4996
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4996
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 14 Aug. 1961
- Physical Description
- 1 photographs : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph is an exterior view of Shopsowitz Delicatessen's 40th Anniversary. The photographs depicts a line-up of customers outside the entrance. Shopsy's is advertising 1920s prices.
- Notes
- Graphic Artists.
- Name Access
- Shopsowitz, Sam
- Shopsy's Delicatessen
- Subjects
- Anniversaries
- Food
- Restaurants
- Small business
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1990-1-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 4316
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 4316
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 11 May 1941
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Pictured in this photograph, left to right: Mrs. Bertha Goldberg, [unknown], Mrs. Disenhouse, Mrs. Weinrib, [unknown], Mrs. Gittel Rakowsky, [unknown], Mrs. Levy, Mrs. Gertrude Seifman.
- Subjects
- Mother's Day
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Dundas Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Kensington Market (Toronto, Ont.)
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1987-3-5
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 2454
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 2454
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [1920?]
- Physical Description
- 2 photographs : b&w (1 negative)
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Abraham Shatz standing next to a elderly man who is seated in a wooden chair in front of a restaurant.
- Notes
- From the Seymour and Abi Shatz Collection.
- Name Access
- Shatz, Abraham
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1980-12-2
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ladovsky family fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 83
- File
- 9
- Item
- 49
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [192-]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9 x 14 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of a group of four in front of United Bakers. The man in the centre may be Luzer Ladovsky, the brother of Aaron Ladovsky. The women may be relatives on staff at the restaurant.
- Name Access
- Ladovsky (family)
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Ladovsky family fonds
- Photographs file
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 83
- File
- 9
- Item
- 87
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1938
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 17 x 22 cm
- Scope and Content
- Item is a photograph of Herman Ladovsky and his mother Sarah Ladovsky behind a counter, most probably in United Bakers at 338 Spadina Avenue, Toronto.
- Name Access
- Ladovsky (family)
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Physical Condition
- The photograph is in poor condition with many creases and tears at the top and right side.
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- Henry Weingluck fonds
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 44
- Item
- 13
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- [ca. 1950]
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of the exterior of Queen Circle Inn, Bernstein's, Hotel and Restaurant at Crystal Beach, Ontairo.
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Crystal Beach (Fort Erie, Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 1988-2-11
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2021-10-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2021-10-3
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 5 photographs : b&w (15 x 10cm)
- Date
- [ca. 2000]
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of five photographs of the Bagel Restaurant located at 285 College Street. The photographs depict a table setting and framed autographed photo display, a waiter working behind the counter, menu card posted in their front window advertising the breakfast special and afternoon tea, closeup of plated home fries and sliced tomatoes, and a partial view of the chef working the grill next to dozens of eggs.
- Photographs by Lisa Abram.
- Administrative History
- The Bagel Restaurant also knwon as the Bagel and by some the Dirty Bagel, was a popular diner located at 285 College Street, a few doors west of Spadina Avenue. The restaurant opened around 1952 and was favoured by local office workers, garment workers, and students enrolled at nearby U of T. The Bagel specialized in homestyle, eastern European Jewish foods. On the menu were offerings such as chicken soup and kreplach, borsht (both cold beet and hot cabbage varieties), kishka, chicken fricassee, boiled beef (flanken), and kasha (buckwheat). The service, often of note in local newspaper reviews, was described as both caring and instructive: “they fuss over you; they’re surrogate mothers.” The former tenant of 285 College Street was photographer Gordon Mendly, who lived and ran Famous Studios out of the same location from the 1940s–1960s.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Descriptive Notes
- Related Material Note: See accession 2022-5-4
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Places
- College Street (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Part Of
- Gordon Mendly fonds
- Events and organizations series
- B'nai Brith lodges sub-series
- Level
- File
- Fonds
- 18
- Series
- 3-1
- File
- 8
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 23 Jan. 1961
- Physical Description
- 3 negatives : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This file consist of images of the B'nai Brith Toronto Lodge Executive at Papio's restaurant with a group of teenage boys wearing insignia jackets. One image is of the executive posed with a hockey stick and puck.
- Subjects
- Hockey
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- ID
-
Item 884
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Level
- Item
- Item
- 884
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Responsibility
- Duke Studios
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 9 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is an original print of the building that once housed Elia Dubinsky's Tel Aviv restaurant on Second Street in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The restaurant was a rendezvous sport for Jewish travellers who wanted a good glatt kosher meal. The Dubinsky family also lived in the building.
- Name Access
- Dubinsky, Elia
- Subjects
- Architecture
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright may not be held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain permission prior to use.
- Places
- Kirkland Lake (Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Part Of
- William Stern fonds
- Military photographs series
- Level
- Item
- Fonds
- 33
- Series
- 2
- Item
- 15
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 10 x 7 cm
- Scope and Content
- This item is a photograph of Max and Moishe Stern standing in front of Goldenberg's Restaurant in Toronto. Max is dressed in uniform on the left and Moishe is on the right. The photograph was sent to Bill during his time overseas with the airforce. The back of the photograph has the inscription "From your old man Genelal (sic) Moshe Stern and Corperal Maxie"
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Repro Restriction
- Copyright is in the public domain and permission for use is not required. Please credit the Ontario Jewish Archives as the source of the photograph.
- Places
- Toronto (Ont.)
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-96
- Source
- Archival Descriptions
- Accession Number
- 2013-2-3
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2013-2-3
- Material Format
- textual record
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 20 cm of textual records
- ca. 100 photographs
- Date
- [190-]-2012
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of records related to three generations of the Ladovsky family and their restaurant, the United Bakers Dairy Restaurant. Also included is a small amount of material related to Jewish organizations in Toronto, such as the Kieltzer Society and B'nai Brith, as well as the Bakery and Confectionary Union. Records include family and business photographs, correspondence, newsclippings, UB menus and other ephemera, and records related to family simchas and celebrations.
- Custodial History
- The records were created and accumulated by Aaron Ladovsky, Herman Ladovsky and Ruthie Ladovsky.
- Administrative History
- Aaron Ladovsky was born in 1888 in Kielce, Poland. He immigrated with his wife Sarah to Toronto in 1906 at the age of 18. Soon after arriving, Aaron Ladovsky worked to help form a Jewish bakers’ union to advocate for collective rights among Jewish Bakers. In 1912 he opened the United Bakers Dairy Restaurant at Dundas and Bay Streets (known then as Agnes and Terauley Streets respectively) in the heart of the Ward. That same year, the couple had twin sons Herman and Samuel, who were born on September 23, 1912.
- Only a short time later, in 1920, Aaron moved the location of his restaurant to 338 Spadina Avenue, just north of Dundas. He and his family lived in an apartment upstairs. Herman and Samuel attended Hester How Elementary School until 1919, Lord Lansdowne Public School once the family moved to Spadina, and later Central Commerce. The twins worked in the family business in the 1920s delivering fresh breads and buns by horse cart.
- Aaron Ladovsky was involved in a number of community organizations. He was instrumental in founding the Kieltzer Society of Toronto in 1913; a community based immigrant-aid association extending aid to Kielcers in Poland and around the world. Ladovsky remained an active member of the organization until his death on April 5, 1960 . His restaurant provided a welcome gathering place for the Jewish community, serving traditional dishes and maintaining a friendly open-door policy. Aaron Ladovsky was known for his generosity and claimed that no one, whether they had money or not, left his restaurant hungry. The United Bakers' menu was mainly based on Sarah’s original recipes, and continues to be so to this day.
- During the Second World War, Herman served overseas as an electrician in the Canadian army show with comics Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster. After returning from the war, he married Dora Macklin in 1947, a registered nurse from Regina. He also began to take over management of the family business. Later, his son Philip and daughter Ruth would follow in his footsteps, helping to run the restaurant with him and later taking over managment. United Bakers remained on Spadina Avenue for 66 years – until 1986 when it moved to its current location at 506 Lawrence Avenue West, off of Bathurst Street. Herman was an active fixture in restaurant until his death on January 6, 2002. He also supported and was involved in the work of the Ontario Jewish Archives over the years. Today, Philip and Ruth carry on the family tradition of running United Bakers Dairy Restaurant.
- Descriptive Notes
- To be integrated into the Ladovsky family fonds 83.
- Subjects
- Families
- Restaurants
- Name Access
- Ladovsky, Herman
- Ladovsky, Aaron
- United Bakers Dairy Restaurant (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-53
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2004-5-53
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- 46 photographs : b&w (26 negatives) ; 9 x 13 cm and 35 mm
- Date
- 1986
- Scope and Content
- This accession consists of interior and exterior photographs of United Bakers Dairy Restaurant on Spadina Avenue before the move to Lawrence Plaza; Anshe Minsk Synagogue; and Rotman's Shoe Store, Spadina Avenue.
- Custodial History
- Donated by Cyrel Troster.
- Use Conditions
- Copyright is held by the Ontario Jewish Archives. Please contact the Archives to obtain permission prior to use.
- Subjects
- Restaurants
- Stores, Retail
- Synagogues
- Name Access
- Anshei Minsk Congregation (Toronto, Ont.)
- United Bakers Dairy Restaurant
- Places
- Spadina Avenue (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-29
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 1979-9-29
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 folder of textual records
- Date
- 1911
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one original and one photocopy of Joe Krapivka's naturalization certificate. According to the certificate, Joe immigrated from Russia and became a restaurant keeper in Toronto.
- MG_RG
- MG1 A1
- Subjects
- Immigrants--Canada
- Restaurants
- Name Access
- Krapivka, Joe
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-5-4
- Source
- Archival Accessions
- Accession Number
- 2007-5-4
- Material Format
- textual record
- Physical Description
- 1 item
- Date
- 1985
- Scope and Content
- Accession consists of one Shopsy's Delicatessen menu from March 1985. The deli introduced a new menu on 1 April 1985. It is a laminated, oversized, three-panel menu and is from the deli located at Yonge and Front Streets, across from the former O'Keefe Centre.
- Administrative History
- Harry and Jennie Shopsowitz started the family business, Shopsy's Delicatessen, in 1921. The first location was on Spadina Avenue at Dundas Street and was initially an ice-cream parlour, although they quickly converted it into a delicatessen in 1922. Shopsy's became an institution in the city where the likes of Bob Hope, Al Waxman, Dennis Hull and Scotty Bowman were regular customers. Harry's three sons took over the business in 1947. The brothers, Sam and Israel, expanded the business by packaging and distributing their hotdogs and corned beef to grocery stores. Sam Shopsowitz, the more gregarious of the two brothers, was known as the "Corned Beef King."
- Subjects
- Food
- Business
- Restaurants
- Name Access
- Shopsy's Delicatessen (Toronto, Ont.)
- Source
- Archival Accessions