Hard to see that one go, really. I mean, it's no opulent 1920s downtown movie house, but I've lived around here a long time now and I've seen my share of shows at AMC Kennedy Commons. I don't know if it's movie houses generally but I know AMC, like Blockbuster, has been pulling back in Canada...

It looks to me too substantial for a pedestrian crossing. I think your instincts are right about it being an access for the cottagers. As we can all see all too well, Steeles itself wasn't up to the task of providing access, but the community just to the south was. I was trying to find the shots...

My guess is just that because Steeles had, for whatever reason, long formed the northern boundaries of Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough, it was probably just easier to draw a harder line there. I guess the same argument could have been made for Mississauga, though. Kind of arbitrary...

Ah! What a pity. What I wouldn't give to see that. :) I used to ride around with a buddy just after we got our licenses and he was fond of driving for driving's sake and exploring and I know we went up the 427 several times. I think I probably went along that stretch before the 427 was extended...

Boy, I'd like to take a sec and really thank all you folks. Your research and photographic skills have shown me things this week about the history of this little part of town that I really never imagined I'd see. And the best part is, it's here for other people like us; maybe years from now...

Yeah... it's a gorgeous house, and they really are a sharp-looking couple. Can't fire Goldie enough props for first having the courage to knock on that door, and the personality to carry off what is, let's face it, a rather unusual request. :)

I thought I was the mighty table king, But I just handed my pinball crown to him. :)

Just today I was thinking, you know, it might be fun to print these pages up and just mail them to the folks there. They'd either find it interesting or creepy-weird, but either way, no confrontation. Just quirky, nerdy knowledge. :)

Go on! That's yours? You're my hero. :) You didn't shoot any video of the highway just a little before that, showing the connection to Albion Road up Indian Line by any chance, did you? :)

Someone posted a video, shot over 20 years ago, that unbelievably include not only that very intersection on the 427... but actually having to stop at it! What a treasure. Let me see if I can manage to post it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuYmw4v2rxg

That reminds me; have you seen that video someone put up on YouTube of that very light? Let me see if I can find it again and then post it in the appropriate thread...

Went for a look on Friday. Here's what the current view under the DVP at Brookbanks looks like today... Since Anna showed us those shots of the DVP pinching down to join the old shirt tail end of Woodbine in the early 60s, it's a lot easier to imagine the need for a traffic light here when it...

I'm not sure what that patch represents but it's a little too far south and too close to the road. The driveway and house do appear in MaMaster's 1954-1955 aerial shots, though. There is something else in that position in the '54-55 shot. It might be a different residence that came and went.

Purely astonishing. It never occurred to me that the DVP would have continued on up to Woodbine; only that they would have ended it various streets till the time to move it north... so I imagined that, at least for a bit, it just dumped everyone on Lawrence while they got around to subsuming...

Now that's one I haven't seen before. You're better at coming up with search parameters than I am, I think. :) Judging from the lay of the land and the shadow cues, I think that view looks west from the edge of the DVP southbound bridge, towards Don Mills (this view, I think). It's a view I...

Geez, Goldie, I was kind of hoping maybe YOU knew 'em. :)

I'm not exactly sure where Three Valleys would be... is that the golf course on the west side of Woodbine? I know there was some kind of access down that side opposite the home at the end of the road, but it's hard to imagine it would need anything more than a cautionary stop sign for people...

I finally tracked down the shots of the house in question. I'm not sure when it was built, but I do know it was there, all alone, in 1960... This is an interesting comparison of views before and after the DVP went through; 1960 and 1968, respectively. You can see that the house is about to be...

Seen that one. :) It took me a long time to work out where that is; if it were Underpass Gate, York Mills, or Brookbanks. That photo's of where they put Brookbanks through, and faces south. The view matches the power lines in overhead and other surface shots and they were on the south side...