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It looks the same as it did in the 1970's...or at least how I remember it. I really wish I could help with this...my best friend Alex lived across the street at 113 Commonwealth in the early 1970's (their bungalow was sold years ago, torn down and a big home now sits there). Unfortunately, Alex...

I don't know if this has been done in this thread already....and I am probably violating a rule of the photo section in that I am not posting a photo here with my comment. But here goes: I'd like to express deep appreciation to Mustapha for starting this thread. And further, to all of the...

Michael1985...before the days of Sunday shopping you could walk down the middle of Bloor Street near Spadina on a Sunday fairly safely (sidestepping the occasional car).... But only after 1966...Before then, you might have been hit by a PCC streetcar...the Bloor Danforth subway opened in 1966...

This touches on what I don't miss from the 1960's: Actually, Transportfan...I belonged to the Union and most of us were hard workers...and your characterization that Union workers are over-paid and underworked smacks of discrimination...Generalizations such as this are wrong. You don't know me...

Political answer...Scarborough...who gets NOTHING from Toronto...Vaughn (who doesnt pay a dime of taxes to Toronto) has a subway in and out of the downtown core. Scarborough still has an antiquated RT system built in the early 1980s that is now so old that TTC operators should be wearing...

That is where the Sheraton is now...I wish they had left it as green space too. My wife and I used to spend our anniversary weekend there in Decembers. Now its so expensive there is no way...$400 for a hotel room for the night...really????

LOL are you serious??? Illegal in Brampton???? Now I've heard everything...I thought Toronto's control on food trucks was overkill. I live in Scarborough...the ice cream truck comes thru the Co-op every good weather day from March till early October.

That reminds me (If someone hasn't posted it already)....Switzers...GREAT deli!

We had a knife sharpener come down our street about 5 years ago, complete with a hand bell ...My wife and I as well as neighbours we were with outside at the time, thought we had all accidentally stepped into a time warp!! It was weird!

LOL...Yes great sports section....and "worse than toilet paper (LMAO)" is absolutely true. But I can give you a list of 10 people that would never touch the Toronto Sun regardless of the sports section without 1 thing ...the Sunshine Girl.

Thank you ProjectEnd for the information. I grew up in that building. It was a second home...Our main home was 476 (1959-1963...torn down to build the subwaay and 478 Huron Street (the Pidgeon House...now office space) I guess all things must change. But the first proposal for the church in 2011...

Federally funded Co-ops were ordered by the Federal Agency for Co-ops, who took over the oversight for Federal C0-ops in the 1990's to up their replacement reserve funding and submit a 3 year replacement plan to the agency. They were also pushed to complete a Reserve Fund Study as well, by a...

This is absolutely true. Housing Co-operative Boards often have the same problem. No Capital Replacement Reserve funding and planning by Boards means that inevitably everything ages and nothing is replaced. That can get costly in the long run. Aging taps can create water problems, which create...

Awesome list!

Frustrated and need to vent. I understand Toronto City Council wants to apply for the Commonwealth Games in the near future (I forget which year, pardon my memory). The city hosted the Pan Am Games in the summer of 2015. The pro argument for hosting games, Olympic, Pan Am or Commonwealth, is...

This is the house I grew up in at 478 Huron Street. It is known as the George C. Pidgeon House, donated to Bloor Street United Church in the 1950's...my Dad was the caretaker at the church from 1959 to 1992. We moved there in 1963 and my parents moved out in 1992 when my Dad retired. The bottom...

The last one kinda reminds me of a restaurant on Queen Street back in the early 1990's when I was a meter reader for Consumers Gas (now Enbridge). They grounded their rooftop satellite disc to the gas meter...not terribly smart, if you ask me.

LOL...

November 27, 1965 was my first live Leaf game...My parents did not have a lot of money. But when one of the Board members of Bloor Street United Church where my Dad worked, found out I was a serious Leaf fan and he gave my Dad two box seat reds to the hockey game that night...Leafs vs Boston...

Thank you for posting that...funny how that very newspaper headline and her name stuck in my head all these years. I would be 10 then. I remember my parents talking about it a lot. They were Liberals with a passion and any scandal that would have embarrassed the Conservatives delighted them to...