The house is still there, a heritage property... sold just over a year ago for $1.2 million. At the time there was an article about the house in the local newspaper. http://www.mytowncrier.ca/cw-jefferys-home-sold-by-family.html The old photos of the houses along Yonge St. north of York Mills...

I remember sneaking down there to buy "fruit-flavoured" sugar that we used to lick off a candy stick. (It was probably just Jello powder.) It might have been a proper store long before the 1950s. I'm sure I've seen a City Archives photo of a store on the east side of Yonge St., about halfway up...

The melted-butter aroma from those carts is such a strong memory. I can smell it as I type.

Mustapha wondered if "that Mark Cullen guy on tv" is any relation to the Cullen family. Mark is the son of Len Cullen, who with John Weall had the nursery business Weall and Cullen in North York. The Miniature Village was Len Cullen's idea. When my parents bought their house in a treeless new...

Magnifique! Despite wars, invasion (by Germany and the Seine), occupation, there's surprisingly little change.

Howdy Doody

Chilling

Memories of those pneumatic tubes... Eatons was still using them in the late '60s when I worked there as a student over the summer. Place money and sales slip in a tube, put the tube in the hole and watch it hover then shoot away; then lo and behold back it came with the change! Magic!

Then, there were Laura Secord shops everywhere – one every few blocks, it seems. Now there are only three in the whole downtown area. Then. Boxes of "summer chocolate" – fruit jellies and white-chocolate-covered "creams" – available in hot weather when no one had a/c at home. Laura Secord candy...

A fantastic and fascinating resource!

You'd only have to dodge streetcars on the right-of-way, and there's a little island with bollards separating cars from streetcars. Perfectly safe!

It seems there were quite a few "ladies colleges" along Bloor St. Aside from the two just discussed, there was Moulton Ladies College (post #1211 on page 81) on Bloor near Park, and my grandmother attended the Presbyterian Ladies College, 152 Bloor St W. (just east of Avenue Rd.). It, too, was...

Re turrets: Nearer my God to thee?

I agree about quality wood windows. Our beautiful 90-year-old casement windows are as good as new.

No! Mike Holmes doesn’t seem very sensitive to historic detail. Scott McGillivray (Income Property) might be a better choice. Or Eric Adelman who brought that Glen Rd. house a few pages ago back to life. Those original windows aren’t energy efficient, and the 123-year-old balcony railing doesn’t...

A fascinating book (Toronto, Old and New). All those grand Victorian homes, standing in their brand-new gardens or surrounded by raw dirt. And, apparently you pretty well had to have facial hair to be a Person of Importance in 1891 Toronto.

Re moving and trunks... we flew to England, the trunks went by ship – a slow boat, apparently, it took two months. Our landlady provided bedding and dishes (Spode!) in the meantime, so it was all good.

I’m pretty sure it was Queen and Jarvis... the building looked the same as now (just a different name) with the entrance on the corner, not on Jarvis.

When we moved to England (1970) we bought two shipping trunks at the Jarvis/Queen store. Didn’t it used to be called Army Navy Surplus or something like that? When we returned to Canada two years later, Harrods shipped the trunks back for us – gift-wrapped in burlap, all stitched up tight. I...

What fun to flip through those old issues of Canadian Grocer and find ads for products that are still on grocery shelves today – Red Rose, Salada and Lipton tea, Clover Leaf Salmon, Eagle Brand Condensed Milk, Cow Brand Baking Soda, Shredded Wheat, Triscuit... Later issues have more pictures...