I'm a trained maltster (brewer & distiller as well). Malt also goes into distilled spirits. Basically all the prepared grains for Corktown. Once these grains are used, they are called Spent Grains. They would have gone to feed the cattle & hogs down this way in Leslieville.

The Fag, Pup, The Scotchman, and Fat? With those types of nicknames, no wonder nobody smiled in pictures. Check out the smiles on the Moustache Club there. Heh.

Tell me about it. My office is a cool 27'C right now, and that's acceptable. It gets hotter with this stupid computer whizzing away. I can't stand the humidity here.

LOL how ironic. Lion just came out, and it might force me to buy yet another bloody server.

How many Furlongs in a Fahrenheit? How many Ounces in an Ounce? A scale invented in 1724? A century before Louis Pasteur even? Time to upgrade.

Hi there. I just had a look on Environment Canada's site. This is what I found. Daily Temperatures for July 1936 Graphed Third of three days up to 40.6°C. Up from mid 20's (where I like it). Ya it peaked for 3 days, then went back down. 40.6°C = 105°F. And that is measured...

Yeah, for years I kept looking at it and couldn't understand how much of a half-assed job it was. Also, paving over tracks is a bit strange. Do they think they're going to unearth them again?

St. Clair East (east of Inglewood), to the roundabout at Mt. Pleasant (NE corner) used to be like that for quite some time.

From the looks of it, that corner is pretty tight for a rail car. My first guess would be streetcar tracks.

Does anybody remember Crown Fish & Chips on Broadview at Gerrard? Best in the city. Even better than Penrose.

Bregman's. They doubled in size. Swiss Chalet used to be South of The Jester. I remember those theatres fondly. Not that I was around then, but when the subways went in underneath, they had to insulate the foundation of the Hollywood for noise.

Ports of Call was replaced late 70's, early 80's. I remember that place.

Can someone tell me about that Fisherman's Island picture? Is that looking East or West? I am assuming that man-bridge is now the Eastern Gap? Cheers

Is that last picture reversed?

Interesting. A couple of shots, but nothing I remember. I tried ggogling it as well and found nothing to that day. I had no clue it was called an adventure playground. At the time I wasn't sure how legal it was. I remember thinking it might have been done by some kids and it wasn't well...

Ya that's exactly it. Very very cool from a kid's perspective. It was towards the Island Airport. Around the baseball field. Molson Park never had anything like that. It was surrounded by a fence with sheets of plywood and the inside was jammed with "wood forts" and various things. I only...

Yeah, I bet even Children's Village (I spent a lot of time there) would be as well. Unfortunately the brains in the Ontario government have completely ruined Ontario Place. The Forum was one of Toronto's great music venues.

Wow, parking was worse then than it is now. Heh. I'm sure various pictures of "Little Norway" would be fascinating. During the 70's, which I'm really looking forward to, if anybody has any, would show the small neighbourhood that kids could build their ideas in various pieces of wood, tires...

I wonder what he is thinking. This picture almost looks staged.

Don't get me started on dog owners. Could derail the thread.