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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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Captain John's

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A landmark soon to disappear.

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V-E Day on Yonge Street

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Jubilant Torontonians, including soldiers in uniform, celebrate victory in Europe on Yonge north of Queen Street.

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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,…

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Exorcist Staircase

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This "exorcist staircase" is the semi-secret north entrance (or escape) into Severn Creek Park, above buried Severn Creek. The staircase is accessed just east of the Rosedale Subway Station entrance along Crescent Road. Magical rural hideaway just…

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Yonge Street, 1911

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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 beginning of Yonge Street

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

Yonge starts appropriately right at Lake Ontario. It’s an inauspicious beginning to such a mythical street – at least it is right now…

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Early Toronto gay bars

It was here that Toronto's early gay bars were located, including the St. Charles Tavern at 488 Yonge (a former firehall that today sports a recently refurbished Victorian clock tower) and the Parkside Tavern at 530 Yonge (now a twenty-four-hour…

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The Watchmen

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

Though Toronto derives its name from an aboriginal word, examples of First Nations public art around the city are rare. One giant exception…

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The Brain of Toronto

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

North of Bloor, Yonge tends not to elicit such high emotional and cultural impact, as it passes through some of Toronto's more genteel…

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