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Mel Lastman: Selling Himself to a City
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| Contributor | User 13 |
| Last Edited | User 13 Nov 11, 2003 02:19pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 11, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mel Lastman was born in Toronto in 1933, the son of Polish immigrants. He began his sales career as a child, hawking fruit and vegetables at his family's Kensington Market grocery store.
He met Marilyn Bornstein when he was 16 and she was 13, and they were married five years later. He left school after Grade 12 and, with Marilyn's help, got a job at a College Street furniture store. He quickly established himself as a successful salesman and in 1955, at age 22, bought an appliance store on Weston Road.
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