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Despite the Bloor/Danforth carline gone after 1966, those two streetcars circa 1946 would last till 1982 when the new CLRVs arrived. They were second hand cars bought from Cleveland, Ohio in 1952.

Cineplex and Empire have announced recently they will be joining forces to convert all their theatres into digital and no longer use 35 mm prints. Here is the link of the news release: www.sys-con.com/node/1793293

You meant Chinatown Centre. There are still some vacancies upstairs and frankly, I think it is the most useless mall ever because there is no one goes there to shop. Pretty dead there. Unless, if you are a parent buying clothes for your children.

This has to do with bank failure. The Home Bank doesn't exist anymore. www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/review/autumn09/review_autumn09.pdf

The Community opened from 1937 to 1956 according to movie-theatre.org. The theatre was part of the Bloom and Fine chain, a subsidiary of Famous Players. I guess the television was the factor behind the theatre's closure.

This reminds of K-Mart Canada when they sold their stores to Zellers. The stores looked like they were stuck in the 70's.

Viacom invested 500 million dollars to built Silvercities and replacing old theatres. They were not satisfied about the amount of money those new theatres made since Canada has a small population. Viacom built too much theatres. Loews merged with Cineplex Odeon Corp back in 1998, in my...

The new trains are going to be "ready" in early June. Here is the link: www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/117201--ttc-says-new-subways-will-be-ready-in-early-june

Recently I was reading Blog T.O., I came across a blog entry regarding the Cumberland Cinemas. To my surprise, Blog T.O. reported Cumberland Cinemas is not closing anytime because Cineplex extended the lease to keep Magic Lantern out of Toronto. Not only that, Alliance sold the theatre to...

Church pews on wheels. Riders must be feeling uncomfortable riding in those wooden streetcars sitting on those seats.

I feel like chicken tonight. Chicken tonight. Just joking, their chicken is too dry for me.

The floor looks different on that Hawker Siddeley train, the last time on I rode on them before they retired.

People in this city are willing to pay more taxes to have someone to pick up their litter.

With the exception of the first picture, most of the pictures came from the book titled Toronto Calling by Sylvia Skeldon circa 1976. Out of print long time ago. Sorry for the late reply since I picked up the book from Goodwill recently.

If those Tim Hortons piggies have dogs, they can use their cups to scoop up crap with it and dump it in a public washroom.

In my opinion, the city should reuse the building to generate energy by using human waste. At least, its not going to be another Smartcentre.

Torontoist did a history about Power supermarkets and here is the link: www.torontoist.com/2008/11/historicist_more_power_to_your_east.php There is also another website regarding Power: www.taddlecreekmag.com/dupont_1

Captain John's should hold the record of the most worst reviews of any restaurant in the world.

Maybe Giant Tiger would take over less desirable Zellers locations.

Half of the Eaton facility still exist on Coxwell and have been turned into low income housing for the Frontiers Foundation. www.frontiersfoundation.ca/amik