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Thanks for those additions, Northern Light. I was certainly aware of the location of the Oxford cinema, because I occasionally went there in the 1940s-50s. I must disagree with your conclusion that the screen was at the front....that's not my recollection. I think the small, third floor, window...

Danforth Ave, west of Coxwell, looking west 1936 CTA

South side Cairns Ave. looking East from Coxwell Ave. 1929 CTA

Historic Site, Todmorden Mills, at the foot of Pottery Road (off Broadview Ave.) Parshall Terry House, East York, 1964 TPL

York-Adelaide S-E corner, 1972 CTA

Demolition on Yonge St. 1954 (The Arcade Bldg.) CTA Looking E. along Temperance St. to Yonge St.

Sheppard Ave. E. looking W. to Woodbine 1965 ---- Wow! That's 42.9 a gallon! Sheppard now travels over the huge, wide Hwy 404 (formerly Woodbine)

CBC TV tower, Jarvis St. 1954 CTA This may be the location of former CBC-TV studios and broadcasting

Ward's Island backyard c.1908 CTA

1229 Queen St. E. c.1920s at north-west corner Leslie St. CTA

Leslie Street Public School c.1920s S/W corner Leslie St. at Sproat Ave.

Imperial Oil station c.1937 Eastern Ave. at Mosley St.

Leslie Street Spit - between 1972-82 CTA

Canadian General Electric Company, King St. at Simcoe c.1930 CTA

Aerial image from 1930 of East York intersection, Coxwell Ave, at Sammon Ave. R.H. Mc Gregor School, west side of Coxwell and East General Hospital on the east. (near the top, E.Y. Collegiate High School)

This must be the oldest and most recognizable landmark to those living in the Donlands Ave./Sammon Ave. neighbourhood. I'm sure the business was begun at least 80 years ago and has remained closed for the last 30 or so. This image c.1994: Current view:

Yonge St. in Hogg's Hollow 1920 TPL This appears to be the same location as above (31 years later) Toronto & York Radial Railway, power house 1951, Yonge St. W side near Wilson Ave.

And I say: "Holy s&% I'm still here," when I wake up every morning. A long life to you all.

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall (1893) at the N/W corner of Yonge/College is a Toronto landmark and, in particular, a landmark in my own history....That's where I worked during my first summer job (c.1949). Starbucks appears to have recently "left the building" and I'm amazed by that...

Soldiers at Stanley Barracks in 1880, (City of Toronto Archives).......Now, the location of the CNE.