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I used to work in the area from the time Stork and Sons was still in operation. You would occasionally see the odd live chicken strutting around the alley at the side and back - chickens would be delivered live and a few would sometimes get loose.

Had all of the above at one time or another growing up or early working days. The red-soled black rubber boots were standard issue for kids in the 50s/60s for puddle jumping and playing in the local creek (Taylor/Massey). If you stepped in too deep a spot you got a "soaker". As time and...

Olympia Lanes was a huge place in the late 70's when I used to bowl there. There was a large employees' league from Canada Life over on University that bowled there Monday nights for years. The main building on Edward Street connected through the upstairs levels with the space above the...

The bridge was definitely there and I personally walked across it numerous times. As a university student around 1975 I has a part-time job at the Simpsons-Sears warehouse for the Christmas season. Known then as the Mail Order Building (MOB) the warehouse was part of the catalog shopping...

Looks more like the De Haviland DH82 Tiger Moth as used in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and built here in Toronto. (quote from Bomber Command museum website http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca

[Insert hack Broderick Crawford impression here] "10-4, 10-4..."

It seems so. See the Old Favorites website's history page http://www.oldfavoritesbooks.com/history.htm Old Favorites had a long history in Toronto before moving out to Green River/Locust Hill. Their last location in town was at 250 Adelaide West in a large space below street level. I worked...

From the website of the Danforth Village BIA: In 1921 the Ford Motor Car Company built an assembly plant for Model T and Model A cars, east of the Luttrell Loop, south of Danforth. The building is still there - Shoppers World. During WWII it was a munitions plant too. Ford moved to Oakville in...

I used to curl for years at the Royal Canadian Curling Club on Broadview at Queen. In those days (1980's) they had a display of old sporting trophies going back to this era when cycle racing was a big deal. Not sure it was for the same event but they did indeed have one trophy that stood 6-7...