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This photo is of my wife with her mother and big sister walking on the east side of Yonge St. south of Dundas, dressed up to go downtown. Note the hats, gloves and suits for everyone. The photo is from 1949 or 1950.

The lower portion of the sign…

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A forerunner to Kmart, S. S. Kresge was one of the 20th century's best known retail stores.

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Summary: stereograph, unmounted. People walking, on bicycle and streetcar.

From Library of Congress, Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b43049 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43049
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-96947 (b&w film copy neg.)

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The street cars used to go a lot further north back then! Courtesy of Toronto Public Library.

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Snow removal in 1922, by shovel, cart and horse! Not a salt truck or plough to be seen.

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View from mr father's store.

Paige Credit Jewellers (Paige's)
357 Yonge Street



Geri Paige Gans

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…

A toll gate at the north-east corner of Bloor and Yonge Streets, generally known as the "First" was erected in the early 1830s. The small keeper's house was moved to Davenport Road in 1850 when a covered way was added along withtwo further rooms.…

The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010

At mid-afternoon, pedestrians are everywhere, crossing all seven lanes of Yonge or Steeles. Some of the pedestrians cross north to Richmond…

The following is an excerpt from Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, Coach House Press, 2010

The condo towers begin to thin out at Finch, and the remainder of Yonge and North York is low-rise-and-bungalow-heavy. Though there are…
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