brewster
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According to the Scarborough Archives and credit to them for the top photo , this is 1949 and the trucks took away and brought back appliances to customers after the 60 cycle conversion.
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Scarborough Photographs: Then and Now
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Goldie
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At that time it was primarily all the electric motors in a household that had to be exchanged - any old 25-cycle motor needed replacement.
Anna
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Don't hurt yourselves, boys.
Sorry, no date - Lawrence Avenue at Kennedy Road
Fonds 220, Series 65, File 162, Item 28
[196-?]
34 photographs : b&w negatives
Brewster, as mentioned on 'then and now' I found it through a 'browse' not a search.
Sometimes you can use the advanced search and the series/file/item number - but in this case it didn't work.
Closer
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Anna
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Here's another one you might like
Goldie
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Don't hurt yourselves, boys.
Closer
Sorry I didn't see that "closer" shot earlier - I was there today - challenge has been met!
OOPS! That caption should read 'east of Warden'
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junctionist
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It's just as bad because these hamfisted renovations leave large suburban communities with few outstanding buildings. People grow up in these spaces without a sense of wonder or confidence in the architecture of the city. These photos of Scarborough show nearly every interesting Modernist building in these areas simplified and cheapened over time with renovations, leaving people with impressions of banality today when there's plenty of potentially interesting architecture. I really wish owners will restore the likes of the infamous TD branch that we've been discussing. Whether it's a Victorian or Beaux-Arts building downtown or a Modernist building in the suburbs, renovations should precicely identify the interesting architectural features of the original buildings and maintain them.
brewster
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Sorry I didn't see that "closer" shot earlier - I was there today - challenge has been met!
OOPS! That caption should read 'east of Warden'
Nice one goldie. In front of the bank there used to be a creek.
Long Island Mike
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Reminds me of the Levittown,Long Island area-1950s...
Anna-Neat picture here of a Cities Service gas station and a arch-type supermarket
I recall an area of Levittown,LI that had a similar shopping center...
Cities Service became CITGO in the late 1960s at least in the US...
One thing that I have noticed in many photos from the 1950s era is how similar
that Toronto's and parts of Long Island's established suburbs actually are...
I really like looking at pictures of Toronto's suburbs from the post WW2 era
because of just this fact...
LI MIKE
Here's another one you might like
Anna-Neat picture here of a Cities Service gas station and a arch-type supermarket
I recall an area of Levittown,LI that had a similar shopping center...
Cities Service became CITGO in the late 1960s at least in the US...
One thing that I have noticed in many photos from the 1950s era is how similar
that Toronto's and parts of Long Island's established suburbs actually are...
I really like looking at pictures of Toronto's suburbs from the post WW2 era
because of just this fact...
LI MIKE
adma
Superstar
Were any of those Long Island parabolic-roof groceries Grand Union?
Incidentally, it impresses me how architecturally sophisticated Cities Service stations were for their time in Toronto...
Anna
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Nice one Goldie. And from the 'then' I guess the new part of the church was built in two stages?
The creek has been naturalized in some other places - it's odd that's just buried for a short stretch from there north.
http://www.thetmp.org/portal/subreach_pages/mapA9-6.htm
The creek has been naturalized in some other places - it's odd that's just buried for a short stretch from there north.
http://www.thetmp.org/portal/subreach_pages/mapA9-6.htm
Anna
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Goldie/Brewster
Do you know where this is? It's in a group called Woodbine Avenue widening but it includes a bunch of Eglinton/Golden Mile pictures - I'm wondering if it's near Kingston Road?
Do you know where this is? It's in a group called Woodbine Avenue widening but it includes a bunch of Eglinton/Golden Mile pictures - I'm wondering if it's near Kingston Road?
mattelderca
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Goldie/Brewster
Do you know where this is? It's in a group called Woodbine Avenue widening but it includes a bunch of Eglinton/Golden Mile pictures - I'm wondering if it's near Kingston Road?
If Eglinton was realinged to make it a 90 degree intersection, this might have been Kingston and SGC Rd.
But that church looks familiar and the grade on the south side does not look right.
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Goldie
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Goldie/Brewster
Do you know where this is?
I think that's the end of Eglington - where it joined Kingston Rd.
The church is at the s/e corner of Kingston and Scarb. Golf Club Rd.
The present day intersection was probably installed slightly to the west.
brewster
Active Member
Right you are Goldie. This photo would be to the left of the one above and it say's Eglington at Kingston Road.
Series 65 -Metropolitan Toronto Planning Department Library collection of Alexandra Studio photographs by MISTER SCARBOROUGH, on Flickr
Series 65 -Metropolitan Toronto Planning Department Library collection of Alexandra Studio photographs by MISTER SCARBOROUGH, on Flickr
