bonus features: prudish about pinball
This post provides supplementary material for a Torontoist article about the evolution of Toronto's pinball machine regulations , which you should read before diving into the following text. I began my research for the article by going back to the 1930s, when guardians of morality began pressing to curb or eliminate pinball machines. On my first run through the Star archives, one of the earliest references to pinball I found was on the kids page of the May 5, 1934 edition. Problem: it wasn’t the pinball I was looking for: