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LOL, this is so wild. I created that image. :) One is a photo of a flag I took in Markham, and the other is a sky I photographed in Scarborough. :D

Man, you've got good eyes for this. Really, that's impressive. :)

Oh, anything but. Tossing in the towel after 50 years of planning, combined with holding the property and being on the verge of completing a major item of infrastructure... that's defeatist. I'm not here a lot these days, and I get a charge out of the posts that talk about what we're doing, what...

I'm sorry, and forgive me for saying this, but it ought to be self-evident. You're naive if you think for one minute that cancelling this airport, after 50 years, is going to result in that land being used for farming any longer than it takes for developers to snap it up and turn it into more...

We can have both, you know. The airport's not going to cover 4 million square miles. There'll be a lot of Canada left.

Just a little bit of fun. :)

Nice stuff, Goldie, that sure didn't take long. :) Wow, there sure is a whole lot more skyline now.

Oh, thanks, TorPronto. :) I've been sitting on these since November and finally decided to process them and put them up. Thank heavens you can put them up in batches of 15! If I'd known that before, I'd have done this a lot sooner. I hope everyone gets the same sense of wonder in the...

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the next few shots show the bridge that used to be on what's now called Flindon Road, but was called the Albion Road bridge at the time. This crossing is a little ways north of what we'd now consider Albion Road, and was replaced by a bridge that has since itself...

The 401 was still under construction in the west end when Hurricane Hazel hit, and no one ever got to use this bridge carrying the highway over the Humber in the vicinity of Weston Road. As I recall reading, it had to be completely demolished and rebuilt from scratch. Imagine the force of the...

The following photos are mostly shots of the devastation caused by Hurricane Hazel. Quite apart from how awesome the damage to the surrounding areas was, I think it also really drives home just how effective the hurricane was at bisecting the Toronto area east and west along the Humber. There...

Below: ohhhh boy. :) And to think, there are people in that crowd down there who are still alive today. It's hard to believe this was seen as fairly innocuous within living memory. The 60s sure changed things.

The following few shots show where the quarry south of John Street used to be. Just off in the distance a little is where Leslie Street would have connected with John Street if it came this far north, but it dead ends just a little south of here and a little north of Steeles. I'm not really sure...

And this was how you used to cross the East Don on Lawrence Avenue. :) Today, of course, the DVP roars by just on the right there, and the left abutment of this bridge fell into the river in the mid-2000s. Does anyone have any idea where this, below, might be? There doesn't seem to be...

Took me a while to figure this out but I believe from the attribution and the shadow cues that what we're looking at here is now roughly analogous to this.

Seems to have been a thing in the 50s. Viewers might miss it if you don't actually point at it. "Oh, yeah... thanks, kid!" :) The shots below are of the approach to the Donalda Farm. I don't know much about it, despite living walking distance from it, but it certainly looked beautiful. It's...

I had the opportunity in November, 2019, to take a few casual shots on my cell of some photos about to go into long term storage for preservation. The references to Don Mills Road in the shots below are a little confusing. From what I understand, that was an earlier way of referring to what...