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I presume their idea here is that if people need glasses they need a sign that can be seen from space so they can find the store. Sheesh.

Fixed that for you.

More like 1980 or so. Note the "car" stop - around then they replaced the word "car" or "bus" with the pictogram, then 1984 or so they got rid of the word "stop" too. Not much later than 1980 since the cars still have the full destination signs and not the route numbers. And that van looks...

Except in those days they were called "hobos" or "bums".

IIRC, the Eclipse Whitewear Building was the original home of the Toronto Sun after the Telegram shut down. I remember Paul Rimstead noting "It's not much like Bassett's old place". What's the subcompact crossing the street in the centre of the 1961? It looks a little shortened for a Beetle...

I'm not sure I'd consider Dundas three blocks west of Bathurst quite as "downtown core", but I like the sign. Does that neighbourhood have parking issues (Toronto Western?) or is it just someone with a good sense of humour? Yes they sure screwed around with 262, didn't they. That aluminum or...

That would be the Seymour Knox whose descendants founded the Buffalo Sabres. The family also owned the Marine Midland Bank, now part of HSBC, who gave their name to the arena that replaced the Aud.

You want animals on road signs? Go to North Vancouver https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/MYevpNJm295zg2QiXZlrng http://www.chrisd.ca/blog/15372/google-street-view-vancouver They have "Deer Crossing" signs with elephant, rhino, ostrich, camel and kangaroo on them. It gets your...

I would say they've kept it fairly well, if they took down that gawdawful Coors Light poster and the awnings. Though the original awnings don't look any great shakes either. Maybe the current ones in a different colour wouldn't be as bad, though they'd still be utterly useless.

St Clare or Claire was an associate of St Francis of Assisi. I'm not sure who the street is named after (or the county) but I suspect not her. Eglinton is a castle in Ayrshire, Scotland, a neighbourhood in Edinburgh, or a village in Northern Ireland. I think the street is named for the...

Agreed that the date should be 3 December. But is that the date the photo was taken or the accession date (i.e. when the Archives received or catalogued it)?

That's what it kind of looks like, doesn't it. But the example I posted was a photo taken in the backcountry in the southern interior of BC, 1920s or so, probably accessed by pack train since the site would have been 20-30 miles from the nearest railway line and 100 miles (and 40 years or so)...

That Scotia Bank looks mostly unchanged, apart from bricking up what looks like a window next to the letters and the addition of I'm not sure what underneath. Wonder if it's the original letters?

It looks like they still needed to remove some of the southwest sidewalk after they put the tracks in? There appears to be a bit of a causeway in between where they've laid the tracks in the foreground and the background. Along with a couple of hydro/telephone poles: the one next to the horses...

I remember a Christmas Fairyland at Casa Loma when I was about 4-5 or so. Was that the same thing that then moved to CNE (Automotive Bvilding?)?

Wow. I've just discovered this thread a couple of weeks ago and have finally caught up. What Ive seen is astounding. Vancouver is now my home, but I was born in the late 50s and raised mainly in eastern parts of Toronto: Cliffside/Scarborough Bluffs, Don Mills, East York. Went to Northern...