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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…

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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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.w. from n. of Finch Ave.

Were you ever at this Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce?

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Onlookers uniformly dressed in ankle length peacoats outside Davisville Station for its subway opening ceremony. People were so excited that they even went onto the roof to watch!


T.T.C., Yonge St. subway; opening ceremonies outside…