Search results

The Wikipedia article refers to a much earlier flood to the one that devastated Raymore Drive in 1954. Source

Quite a few interesting pics of early Etobicoke can be found at this link Here's the Moorhouse family looking south west from their home on Aberfoyle Crescent to the corner of Bloor Street and Islington Avenue. One can only imagine their thoughts of the same view today. The Musson...

Ah yes, Thistletown Regional Centre - my dad (a city cop) would threaten to send us there when we misbehaved. I believe it's on Panarama Court (across the river). I tried to look for any reference to Italian Gardens (which I remembered being on the east side of Islington on a hill) and note...

Thanks for more childhood memories, Lone. Used to play at the Humber near Rountree Mills Park and haven't been up there in a couple of decades, so was sort of shocked to see Finch carry right on through now. Perhaps someone can refresh my memory, but was there something called "Italian...

The housing looked so familiar, but from the angle of the "then" pic it appeared to me it was literally the end of the road. I thought perhaps at some point Kipling Avenue had been re-directed. I don't remember seeing Kipling Ave."N." on street signs back in the day, either. Thank you! :)

Thanks again for all the pics and info on the Jane/Finch area and Bathurst Street (gotta love all those apt. blocks). Can someone clear up my confusion of this "then" pic? Kipling Avenue starts at Lakeshore to the south and ends just north of Steeles (at a bus loop). Since this is not...

I suppose Jane Finch Mall has been made obsolete by York Gate across the street. I presume it hasn't suffered the fate of West Finch Mall just down the road at Finch and Weston - that mall's completely gone and remains a ghostly vacant lot. Even the McDonald's suffered the same fate as the one...

This is the Jane and Finch I remember as a young child - a fresh, eager young suburb. By the time I got a part-time job at Towers at this intersection in the early 70s, it was already starting its notorious downhill slide.

Ah, the good old days, when thousands would turn out for the crowning of Miss Toronto and she'd become an immediate media star. Let's look back at a few of the nubile young ladies and their activities around town. The very first Miss Toronto, crowned at Sunnyside in 1926 Exhibition...

Yonge and Jackes (or Farnham con't. in my mind).

I lived in Woodbridge then (July, 1970) and remember seeing the smoke rise in the distance (the crash site was located in what is now designated as part of Brampton). I also remember the "Blondin" area well, especially the little plaza. It has its own place in history as being the location of...

Every so often, when driving past the Exhibition on the Gardner, I wonder about the stairs going down to a non-existent train station at Dufferin. Having heard of "Parkdale South", I decided to look it up and found this great site with some wonderful before and after shots (and satisfied my...

Wow, I finally made it to the end of this thread (and still have my job, even though I've done little work in the last three days). Again, thank you so much for all the wonderful contributions (both photographic and written). I was sitting here bemoaning the fact most of my work life has been...

My father had decided to move the family to Canada from England and came over on his own to check it out first. Having decided Toronto was the place for him, he made arrangements to buy a house on Baby Point Road. Since my mother was very adverse to leaving her homeland, he thought it best...

Yorkdale Mall. There is some sort of electricity saving thing going on.. those lights dangling from the ceiling are harsh. Sorry for jumping around so much, but it's my first day here and even though I've been transfixed for hours (literally) I'm only at the 50th page or...

Thanks for the welcome. :) I'm sitting in an office in the "after" right now, lamenting that it couldn't be in the "before". What character and as attractive as the Royal York. What a tragic, early death for such a lovely building.

Can't tell you the memories this thread is bringing back. So glad I found this site, although for some reason it makes me feel old, when I usually feel like that teen who used to skip school to go downtown and hang out at Sam the Record Man. Anyway, this terminal was known to me as "Hogs...