No, the house didn't exist in 1947. The road you're talking about running east and west was private property back then. Today it's been largely the course of Cassandra Blvd. Actually, Woodbine went most of the way down to Lawrence (as indicated on my map in red). It stopped short of Lawrence by...

Heya, Goldie! :) Yeah, I know I do... I know I do. I was hoping I'd put it up on my blog when I mentioned this around a year ago but I guess I couldn't be arsed to get my ducks in a row and put it up, which leaves it to future me (now present me) to find it. But I know for sure I do have shots...

A few years ago I was looking at my aerial shots from the City Archives and I noticed a house... the last house on Woodbine Avenue south of York Mills, at the very end of Woodbine. Woodbine, of course, didn't actually connect to Lawrence then. They didn't think it was worth it connecting it down...

Well, a lot of Natives are of the opinion that Columbus was a colon. :)

Wow, that's kind of different. Almost looks otherworldly. Kind of like Hobbits-go-urban. :) It's a nice effect.

We're all still checking this out! :)

I suppose it could go either way, but I took it as a profound and deeply Irish tribute, particularly given their careful arrangement, and the number, four, logically representative of Ireland's four provinces. If it was intended as a joke, it's so Poe that it backfires spectacularly.

These statues, by Rowan Gillespie, are collectively called "The Arrival", as I understand it. I was in Dublin about four years ago and arranged along the south shore of the Liffey are the corresponding Gillespie statues called "The Departure". I have some shots of...

I've been meaning to post this for a while here. I took this photo somewhere in the vicinity of Norwich, I think, a couple of years ago. This is very much what the Lawrence Avenue East bridge over the East Don would have looked like prior to about 1962, including the turn to the right on the far...

So much for running down there for a look. :)

The worst I've personally ever seen it wasn't even really close to Toronto. I was coming home from Kingston in the late 90s, back when it was just two lanes each way (it might still be, for all I know), and I was in the slow lane and had people right on my bumper pushing me along at 150 km/h...

That's kind of sad. Whereabouts is this? What's slated to go up on the site? Condos?

That's a really astonishing range of photos and little changes every time. The disappearance of trees, the widening of Yonge, the phone booth that came and went, the side door that was bricked up, the adjacent building that vanished, the style of the cladding... people probably hardly noticed it...

The bridge shots are the same. This one is backward, though; flipped in the vertical axis, making right, left. In the original view, Salmon was facing northwest from the southeast corner of the bridge. The light comes from the south, and the road curves off to the north, which is consistent with...

Moose, are you sure this view doesn't face east? I would have thought the tracks and Sugarloaf Hill would have to be on the east side of the Don.

Because of all that bloody smoke, I just cannot orient myself! Which way are we looking? Whereabouts is the shot? It looks familiar but not familiar enough I can put my finger on it. Anyone?

Heh, I just had my T410 at work swapped out for a W510. All they did was transfer the hard drive. Windows 7 did all the gruntwork of updating the hardware drivers itself. Boy, we've come a long way.

I suppose. If you were working on the Golden Mile, say, by that time you could simply drive down Don Mills Road and turn onto Eglinton, which was open between Victoria Park Ave and Brentcliffe Road by then. But it was still quite a while. If I remember correctly from the aerial shots I copied...

The most fascinating thing for me is the realization that three or four years before the photo was taken, Roanoke was Lawrence Avenue. I've always wondered how the folks in Don Mills, less than a mile away, managed having a one-lane bridge over the Don, and a rickety wooden bridge over the...

One less now. Thanks kindly for hipping us to that, Deep. :)