The College Park LCBO is opening on Thursday March 26, 2015. It is in the location of the old Grand & Toy store.

I remember that a Toronto councillor recommended the demolition of all the buildings on the south side of Front St. from the St. Lawrence Centre of the Arts all the way to St. Lawrence Market. His name was David Rotenberg. Once David Crombie was elected mayor in 1972, we never heard...

To clarify. The photo of the Regent gas station on the north-east corner of Bathurst and Eglinton is the photo incorrectly dated. This is the photo to which I referred. The most prominent car in that photo is a 1949 (or later) Ford. ------- There is a 1951 (or later) Cadillac in...

1954 and Peveril Hill A few things should be noted. The intersection of Bathuirst and Eglinton has the wrong date. It is not 1945, rather it is 1954. The dead giveaway is the presence of television antennas. There was no television here or in Buffalo until after 1945. Another...

Docks Stop I believe it meant that transit vehicles from here would take passengers to the ferry docks. If memory serves me correctly, some streetcars went along Front Street while others went south to the ferry docks.

That's because the buildings were more assertive and declarative in their design. Today, we have buildings that are just walls with windows and it's hard to tell one from another.