In my Now picture, if you go down the corridor in the centre distance and turn right there is a very cheerful lady that runs a coffee stand. They do their own baking at 12:30am most mornings [ovens in the back] and the whole station smells of baking. The coffee is good considering it comes out...

It was a nice location while it lasted. The salesladies - wore uniforms and the place was clean, cool and hushed inside. The present Laura Secord location in that neighbourhood is a skip across the street in the Yonge Eglinton centre. It's an old school candy shopping experience still. They...

Then. Eglinton TTC station c.1966. Pic from the Transit Toronto website. Eglinton and Yonge was where I grew up. Lots of personal memories here - in this space; and boring enough to put all of you to sleep. I'll share only one. My gramps would buy me a 'Fruitella' candy every time we...

Goldie has grown children and even grown grandchildren; I hope he asks them for assistance. My 84 year old father in law uses me as smartphone support...

I asked Goldie to reconsider by email; sending him the gist of some of the remarks here. Lets see what happens. He really makes this thread.

Sorry if I've misunderstood, but thecharioteers picture is (if the archives' description is accurate) in fact Queen and Simcoe. Fonds 1548 Series 93 item 18579 December 19, 1923.

This. I've been thinking about how one individual like me could light a fire under the Health Department to get a Chinese restaurant washroom cleanup going. Some aren't even ventilated.

Yueh Tung is the the successor of the 'Kwong Chow' restaurant in that same location. Kwong Chow operated from about 1960 or so up until 1995 or so. So, it could be said to have a connection to being the very last of the Chinese restaurants from the old Elizabeth Street Chinatown of the 50s. I...

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At Wilson TTC station on Sunday I travelled back in time to the 70s. Please, buy something from the prop., as I did, so that they can stay in business and delight our eyes and senses. It was so well preserved it could have been a Wes Anderson movie set.

Non Toronto content. '13 Things I found on the Internet Today'. Mostly vintage curiosities stuff. May be of some interest. Maybe not. I found myself reading all of them. http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/11/27/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-cclxiii/

https://theconversation.com/how-an-earthquake-in-1906-san-francisco-sparked-the-invention-of-modern-day-chinatown-85559

Hey, that's amazing Goldie.. Don't apologize. I used MS Photo Editor to enhance a lousy Archives picture. You must have some superior tools at hand.

Non Toronto Then and Now content. Amazing well done and I am sure at some expense in time and equipment too. Not sure if I posted this a few months ago. If that's the case here you go again. Yep, that's started with me already...

Queen looking east across Spadina. Then was '189?' according to the Toronto Archives. The now picture is Nov 24 2017. Sorry I couldn't fit the still existing onion dome into the new picture. I didn't have a zoom lens on my camera and I couldn't safely back up anymore. And the Now pic has...

Since this is the Chinatown thread - a cheap Chinese eats review. Wifey is shopping and messages me this afternoon: 'I've been reading 'Yelp'.' Let's try out 'Noodle King' in the basement food court of the Sheraton Hotel on Queen West.' 'Where?', I ask, 'that's a food court for the daytime...

Some non-Toronto Then and Now: https://www.boredpanda.com/then-and-now-pictures-changing-world-rephotos/?utm_source=wfw&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=fio

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'Hosu' at Queen and John closed a few weeks ago. There was a landlord relief letter or some such thing taped to the door asking the owner to pay $27,000. in back rent. My wife guessed that might be ONE months rent. It was always busy; I suppose the killer rent killed them. 'Tot Cat Cafe'...

A 'just for fun' Then and Now of Yonge and Dundas. Empty nesters the wife and I were watching the 1988 shot-in-Toronto film 'Short Circuit 2' last night. Reliving something we did with the kids in those days. Our kids loved that flick. Today I went out and took some Now shots of Yonge Dundas...