LPCI
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YMCA on the second floor. And a radio store on the ground floor. An open door to the right, and an arched door to the left. Lots going on with this building.
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Evocative Images of Lost Toronto
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SubHuman
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I had never heard of The Toronto Circus Riot of July 13, 1855, until recently. This video mentions the control the Orange Order had on police and fire companies at the time.
thecharioteer
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1984 (TPL):
adma
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Is that around the time they removed that SB-Yonge-to-EB-Gardiner loop ramp? Even looks from the photo that whatever vehicles were on it were merely service/construction vehicles...
thecharioteer
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From the Toronto Star 1927 (in the TPL collection). Would have been on the site of Scotia Plaza.
Caption:
Caption:
"Forecast rise of Toronto Towers. Here is shown the downtown street advertisement Toronto Towers huge development project being undertaken by the King-Adelaide Corporation. The display predicts facilities for 40 retail shops with 348,000 feet of class A floor space, to be ready by September, 1929."
LPCI
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Ok, it’s sort of summer Covid concert season. 54 years ago on August 4th, 1967 at Toronto City Hall, Jefferson Airplane played a free concert in the afternoon. Good hash was to be had. 
jaborandi
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I remember it well. Alas, guess I didn't find the hash.
LPCI
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We were under the ramp. Sorry we missed you!
Goldie
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No image?Ok, it’s sort of summer Covid concert season. 54 years ago on August 4th, 1967 at Toronto City Hall, Jefferson Airplane played a free concert in the afternoon. Good hash was to be had.
LPCI
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Goldie
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THE SPORTING LIFE IS UPON US!
Hanlan-Plaisted International Rowing Competition Toronto Bay 15 May 1878 TPL
World's Championship 1928
Hanlan-Plaisted International Rowing Competition Toronto Bay 15 May 1878 TPL
World's Championship 1928
LPCI
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I’ve been busy dodging bears at the cottage near Parry Sound. I was curious about bears in Toronto. Found this:
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How Bay Street came to be in Toronto
Bay Street has the type of geographically influenced name that you'd assume must have conferred upon it from the start, but a commonly held theory is…
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thecharioteer
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Speaking of Bay Street: one of my favourite pics in the TPL by Boris Spremo for the Toronto Star:
thecharioteer
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Also by Boris Spremo: the SW corner of King & Bay in 1962:
adma
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And that last image always stood out to me for the very early "graphic" no-left-turn intersection signage (the earliest in Toronto?)