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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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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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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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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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Yorkville Library in 1907

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Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure.

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Sam the Record Man just prior to permanent closure

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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.

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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…

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…
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