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Yonge and Finch, 1963
Yonge Street looking north from Finch Avenue
Notice the Wash Plaza on the left of the image?
I wonder what is in place of that now!
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Notice the Wash Plaza on the left of the image?
I wonder what is in place of that now!
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Tags: 1960, 1963, picture, pictures, Wash Plaza, Yonge and Finch, yonge street
Yonge and Finch, 1956
Yonge St., N. of Yonge Blvd., looking s.w. from n. of Finch Ave.
Were you ever at this Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce?
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Were you ever at this Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce?
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Yonge and Finch, 1956
See the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on the right of the picture and the Esso gas station on the left?
Yonge St., N. of Yonge Blvd., looking S. from N. of Finch Ave.
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Yonge St., N. of Yonge Blvd., looking S. from N. of Finch Ave.
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Dempsey Brothers, Shops, Yonge and Sheppard, 1953
Shepard, Joseph, shop, Yonge St., n.w. cor. Sheppard Ave. W.
Our current Yonge and Sheppard subway station was once shops of Dempsey Brothers and Lansing Meat Market.
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Our current Yonge and Sheppard subway station was once shops of Dempsey Brothers and Lansing Meat Market.
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Tags: 1950s, 1953, Dempsey Brothers, Lansing Meat Market, picture, pictures, shops, subway, ttc, Yonge and Sheppard, yonge street
Yorkville Library, 1907
Yorkville Library in 1907
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Sam the Record Man: the end of an era
Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure.
Sam the Record Man: the end of an era
Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure
Pride Parade 2013
This was the first Toronto Pride Parade I had ever marched in. It was great to march with Toronto Public Library colleagues, especially with the decked-out bookmobile behind us.
Tags: balloons, bookmobiles, parades, pride, pride parade, yonge street
Ramsden Park
Yonge Street dips down when it crosses between Ramsden Park and Rosedale subway station as under the ground here is the buried Castle Frank Brook. Ramsden Park covers most of the buried brook (you can see another dip on the other side of the park at…
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…