A few more from the Junction circa 2005 I can't remember where this was (or is) exactly and I'm sure I've seen a similar photo in one of the other forums here. If you look carefully you can see Paragon Press High Quality Printing over the door. 3358 Dundas Street West - This used to be...

China House is a great place on the inside as well. I've only been a couple of times but I always feel like I've walked into 1955. For those interested in Toronto history, I would suggest a visit. The food isn't half bad :)

Here are some more that I took a few years ago during a visit to the Junction. In the 60s & 70s when I was a kid it was the local shopping district and you could get most of what you needed without having to go downtown. S. S. Kresge, Woolworth, Mikey Finns Dept Store... Sadly, although some of...

Another great thread! Here are some that I've taken in the past couple of years. Rotman's Hat Shop (2009) - I took this shortly before he closed the shop in 2009. You can read about it here. Not a storefront, but The Marine & Sportsman's Building (2009) - located at 85 King Street East is a...

Yes! I thought it was in Coronation Park as well but you are right it's much further west. Thanks for that.

Hmm... I might be OK with living on McDonald's Street, Prius Drive or even SONY Terrace... but with so many streets up for grabs I'd probably end up living on Vagasil Avenue. Seriously though, several people have suggested exclusive advertising rights which I think would be fine. There...

:) I also recall a pointy, triangular monument of some sort that was capped with a green-ish glass pyramid. I think that is long gone as well.

Pre Scotia Plaza Skyline Here are a couple of pictures I took in the mid eighties... probably 85.

Scanned more negatives from the same batch and behold... a Lancaster bomber :)

Cooke's Presbyterian Church - Queen St. East at Mutual While searching through some old negatives I came across these. Queen St. looking east from approximatly Bond street around 1975. The church in the background is gone. Doing a google seach it seems that it was called Cooke's Presbyterian...

I took this picture in 1975 (not 1977 - thanks adma!) during the construction of the CN tower but I can't figure out where I was. I want to shoot a 'now' and wondered if anyone knows if the gun is still there and if so where? I've got another picture that has a tank as well.

Not Toronto related, but some photos I think you will appreciate This has nothing to do with Toronto but I'm sure some of you will appreciate the photos at this link. Vivian Maier was a nanny who lived in Chicago for most of her life and passed away in 2009 at the age of 83. Little more is...

This has nothing to do with Toronto but I'm sure some of you will appreciate the photos at this link. Vivian Maier was a nanny who lived in Chicago for most of her life and passed away in 2009 at the age of 83. Little more is known about her, except that she was an avid street photographer. Her...

I did a 'then and now' of the Film House building from a photo that I took in 1977 before the upper floors were added. 2010

Thank's for posting that! - its really worth watching. Other than a few landmarks I hardly recognized anything.

Does anyone know when these were last used? I remember that one was used as the heritage office for a bit but were the banks the last tennants? I really hope both of these gems get a second life without a massive renovation or conversion.

Actually the buildings have been gone for at least 10 years. I lived in the area briefly in 2000 and they had already been cleared for a condo development that never happened.

There is an important clue in the photo! The polce car number. It looks like either 5321 or 5621. 53 division is currently north of Danforth but I have no idea what the boundries were back in the 70s. Although it doesn't look like St. Clair, that would have been the only streetcar route up there...

Since they removed the Sam's signs quite some time ago, I had hoped that there was a plan to restore the buildings underneath. They sat there for a very long time and I was quite surprised when I saw them being demolished a few weeks ago. Any idea why it is taking so long? Was there a plan to...

I wanted to see if I could put a name to the kid in the 181 Baldwin photo. I zoomed in to see if there was a number on the house when I noticed the faint figure of a bearded man inside the doorway. According to the city dirctory for those years, a baker named Gabriel Pearl lived there. I could...