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Librarian to the rescue!
Actually, late 1930s, not late 1950s--back when the Gardiner was the budding Middle Road/QEW, and they were building the *first* QEW-27 interchange. (And as you can see on the left, the short-lived *first* Etobicoke alignment for the 1930s-improved Middle Road followed the present-day Queensway--the ghost of that alignment was evident as late as the 60s/70s. In fact, judging from the fact that traffic seems to be following the new alignment already I might date the photo to 1939/40 or so)
What I find interesting is that Pottery Road's been shifted over a little, probably when they built the DVP there. Also, that hedge came down. That's probably seriously enhanced the safety of this curve.
Weird. That top photo; I would have expected to see more of a dip down into the Etobicoke Creek valley to the bow arch bridge where Evans Ave. becomes Sherway Drive, probably somewhere around the place the trees cross the way. The course looks flat as a pan.
We're a little too close for that; the entirety of the bottom left is now filled by Sherway Gardens. And that's Evans parallel to the QEW to the right; that is, where it actually *meets* the QEW would be roughly on a line w/the bottom of the photograph, or not far from it...
Ah, I completely misread the lay of the land there. I thought we were looking west. I think we're actually looking back east.
It's a bit unfair that this is his legacy. The only photo he ever sat for apparently. In those days you had to sit still for some time and you couldn't see the result until much later. He might have been a bit of a joker, sitting still wasn't his forte.
