More like early 1980s. It was about 1980-ish that they deleted the words "car" and "bus" from the TTC signs. and I'm pretty sure they still had "no turns" signs at least up to then before they replaced them with arrows.

I would just like to note the synchronicity (or just dumb coincidence) of there being a Pearle Vision outlet at the corner of Pearl Street.

You're posting a Then and Now and there's a sign about the Beach Boys performing at the CNE in the NOW photo???? And I remember hearing them there in 1977. Yes, they're doing the PNE here too. No, I'm not going. Though we are going Wednesday because my wife wants to hear Great Big Sea - my first...

Probably harder. A card at least has a pattern of holes that someone in the 22nd century might be able to decode. Likewise, my thirty-odd year old Kodachromes will be more useful a hundred years from now than the digital photos I'll take today.

Looking for the bay, no doubt ;). Bayview is one of the most inappropriately named streets in existence, and more so the further it gets from the bay. Is there anywhere on Bayview that you can actually see the bay?

I'm not sure about the foliage, maybe philodendron, but the flowers (both colours) are hydrangeas.

I think this is pretty nearly across the street from where my father grew up (1920s-30s). But the current usage of the building is beyond what anyone would have imagined of it back then. Interestingly it appears to be laid out upside down: four bedrooms on ground floor, kitchen, dining room etc...

I like it, but I just wish they hadn't run out of facing stone.

. Same here. Except that the pickup looks late 70s or early 80s, and that isn't "old". Is it? I think I went into Flash Back four years ago when I was wandering the market, but I don't recall the King of Kensington sign. Is that a store or is it just a street banner?

Interesting colour scheme on that PCC. Still cream on the top, it looks like they changed their minds a couple of times when they were repainting it. The PCCs never looked right in the black/red/white colour scheme, and I was never comfortable even with the darker shard of magenta or whatever it...

That's the one. I hadn't heard that its "supremacy" has been challenged, chiefly on the grounds that its second story is wider than the ground floor.

Yes, she became rather famous a couple of decades ago for wearing loud hats and yelling even more loudly at a certain W. Vanderzalm about a real estate transaction that went sideways. Jack Chow, or at least his insurance agency, continues to operate out of the same Chinatown building, which...

Some amazing work there. Interesting to see the Kingston Road line, which was long gone by the time I was born in 1957, but we still referred to the stop on the Scarborough bus at Midland and Kingston Road as Stop 14 from Bingham (before they introduced the Kingston Road bus and moved the...

I'm sure we've discussed it before - I seem to recall some snowstorm pictures, which were recently reposted on Vintage Toronto. The Eclipse Whitewear building was, of course, the first home of the Toronto Sun in 1971 - "not much like Bassett's old place" is how I remember Paul Rimstead...

Until he defected to that "other place" - North Toronto Collegiate (cue Corner Gas "Wollerton" response). I still have a copy of his book Brave New Words.

I think I know the spot you mean, but any chance someone could go there and point a camera down that grate for the benefit of those of us who aren't in Toronto?

I think the last time I was in Fran's was about 1984. The coffee they're serving today was probably there in 1984.:D

!!! I did not know that. Excellent thread. adma - I think I recall the Pape accident, now that you mention it. Rather surprising that there would still be a level crossing on that line that recently. Carlaw, having a grade separation, was always the main traffic street south of Riverdale...

For (2) you mean Queensway, not QEW. Queen still does segue into Queensway, though I think it used to change somewhere west of High Park instead of at Sunnyside. There is still a North Queen Street in the vicinity of Queensway and Kipling which I've never figured out. Dupont did overwrite the...

About that mural, I'm a bit confused. The plaque calls him John Russell Richmond, then refers to him as Richard. So did anyone vet this plaque before it went up?