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The summer of love 1972-74

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When we closed Yonge Street

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The summer of love 1972-74

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When we closed Yonge Street

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The start of the Yonge Street subway.

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View from mr father's store.

Paige Credit Jewellers (Paige's)
357 Yonge Street

Geri Paige Gans

Tags: construction, picture, subway construction, subways, t.t.c., toronto transit commission, ttc, yonge street, yonge street subway

We were very poor students living on Charles Street but our view included a bit of Yonge. We couldn't afford to go to movies and theatre. How lucky that all the parades in Toronto went down Yonge. There was the Santa Claus Parade and also the…

Tags: 1960s, 1969, parades, read, story, yonge street

The bridge is out

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Hurricane Hazel struck Toronto on October 15, 1954.

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Winter at Yonge & King (1870)

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Winter on Yonge St. in the 1870s looks just as cold as it does now! Fewer cars, more horses, perhaps… and electric lights replaced both types of gas streetlights you see here, at the intersection of Yonge and King.

The advertisement (which used…

Tags: delivery vehicles, king street, picture, snow, winter, yonge street

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…

Tags: eglinton avenue, eglinton subway station, read, story, subways, t.t.c., toronto transit commission, ttc, yonge street

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…

Tags: delivery boy, lowes, movie houses, newspapers, read, shea's, story, yonge street

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…

Tags: bloor street, brass rail, fran's diner, read, story, the bay, toby's, toronto reference library, uptown, yonge street

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…

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The summer of love 1972-74

The summer of love 1972-74

The start of the Yonge Street subway.

Parades on Yonge St.

The bridge is out

Winter at Yonge & King (1870)

Subway Boys

Working after School as a delivery boy

Uptown

Travels with my Aunt