Photo by Ted Chirnside from over 50 years ago... (TPL digital archives)

Ah, I was trying to place all that. :) It's surprising how much the descent to the RR underpass throws me off in trying to work all that out.

Hadn't seen those shots before... good find! The more time goes by, the more amazed I am they kept that bridge and it's still around today. Kind of a shame it doesn't really afford much of a chance to really go anywhere anymore but at least it's still around... and driveable!

Lay it upon us, Kenk, we're all ears. :) I'm personally curious if you remember much about the old one-lane Lawrence Avenue bridge over the Don where the DVP is now, the end of Woodbine north of there, and work around Leslie and Sheppard in the mid-60s, if you're old enough to have been around...

Hey, interesting. Do you know if that used to be a bridge on the road grid, or was it put there for pedestrians? I don't know if the bridge in question was a suspension bridge; just that I saw the moorings for one up in Bolton, and it was private property. But now that you come to mention...

Amazing! I love when that happens. :)

I wonder if that house in the upper view is still there in the development...

Seen these yet, Goldie? :)

JT, before you carry on wasting a good vintage bottle of Being a Jackass on me, you do realize that the "but not a real fur coat, that's cruel" crack was simply a reference to a Canadian song lyric that was tongue-in-cheek to begin with, right? I mean, as opposed to an attempt on my part to...

What's kind of ironic is that the bridge I mentioned, the Rowntree Road crossing, is on that map, way down at the bottom. :)

The Get Toronto Moving site actually has an aerial photo of just what that looked like. :) It's not as great as some shot on the spot, but it's still useful to see it as an overall reference. And you can see that "our" house still has its driveway connection to Woodbine in the shot...

Incidentally, EV, did you know that this bridge used to be an important road crossing? It was part of Rowntree Road, as was the trail up the far side, and skirted past a substantial mansion about half way up. :)

They're referenced earlier in the thread. They're pretty much where the DVP ended and merged with Woodbine Avenue north of Lawrence Avenue for about three years from 1963-1966. The first view looks north toward Woodbine and the second, south from Woodbine to the opening DVP.

I could make a joke about the way a REAL man wears a beaver on his head but I think we've gone far enough down the rabbit hole as it is... :)

I've been to an abandoned campground up in Bolton that once sported an actual private suspension bridge across the Humber; the bracing supports for which are still dug into the earth at either side (though the bridge is long gone; probably sold for the metal content). What you found there...

I'd heard something about the plan to link up Rexdale and Sheppard, since they both dead-end; the first at Islington and the second at Weston; by means of using Bergamot. Naturally that would have included a Rexdale-Albion intersection as well. But you make a pretty good case here.

I'm not sure when the hydro corridor went in but I happened to have a shot from 1953 handy that shows it existed along (Old) Cummer Avenue in 1953. Odds are it had been there for a while because there don't seem to be any signs of recent construction around them. Arguably it existed to have...

Doesn't look like it. The maps to be found here seem to suggest that the route was to the east and avoided an unnecessary river crossing there. I'm still persuaded an auto bridge to cottage country is the most likely explanation, particularly given the stairs.

...but not a REAL fur coat; that's cruel. :)

Wow, must have been next to unbelievable in the day! I imagine you could have made a pretty penny... or even a dime!... selling a shot like that to the Globe back then. :)