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Subway Boys
I remember being in the Yonge subway the day after it opened,in March 1954. It was quite exciting. I was a young boy at the time. My friend and I rode the subway that day. Later,a TTC employee shouted at us because we had been racing along the…
Travels with my Aunt
I have wonderful memories of shopping trips with my aunt to the old Simpsons store. She would buy me white gloves each spring. I remember the attention the Sales woman showed us. Then we would walk northwards, window shopping on our way home. It…
Yonge and Gould
It was in the late 70's early 80's, men were wearing searsucker suits and shoes with big heels, and big hair. Women were wearing pant suits or as my grandmother used to say panty suits, for the most part women were at home, raising children,…
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Uptown
Yonge and Bloor-the compass center for my 20 amazing years in Toronto. The library, the Bay, and the Uptown! Oh, the Uptown movie theater, my home away from home-standing in lines ups that would stretch south to the next intersection with the…
Working after School as a delivery boy
Working at a Morses's Smoke after school delivering pop and sandwiches to small jewllery mfg and other business in Colinade that Ran from Yonge St to Victoria St--selling papers at three cents, Yonge road service covered by thick 4x4 lumber beams…
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Window on Yonge Street - Magical Memories at Yonge and Shuter
My stamp business is located on the second floor of 211 Yonge Street in the heart of downtown Toronto. Hardly a day goes by in this busy area that you don't see a film crew, a parade, or some musical event taking place within walking distance. On…
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SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT YONGE STREET
Like all my grandparents eight sons, the eldest - my Uncle Hugh - had an unquenchable thirst for adventure and wealth - wealth, meaning security, in those days. In his early twenties, he and a younger brother, Harry, took off for the gold fields,…
John Dillinger in Toronto?
The infamous bank robber John Dillinger was shot and killed by police just outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934. I'm not sure what movie he saw, but it certainly was his last. The Biograph Theater saved the chair that he sat in that…
Pierce-Arrow Showroom
Remember Pierce-Arrow? Not many of us do. It was an American company that manufactured luxury cars from 1901 - 1938. From 1930 to 1937, Toronto's Pierce-Arrow showroom was located at 1140 Yonge Street, at the corner of Yonge and Marlborough. The…
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The defection of Mikhail Barishnikov
Every step you walk on Yonge street has a memory, and a story to tell. The next time you walk past the Hummingbird Centre at Front and Yonge... think of this: On June 29, 1974 the worldfamous Soviet ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov ducked out the…