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Toronto’s Colonial Tavern – demolished

September 30, 2016 johndougtaylor

            The Colonial Tavern during the summer of 1973, when Yonge Street was closed to vehicle traffic to create a pedestrian mall. In the photo,

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Metropolitan United Church—destroyed by fire 1928

September 28, 2016 johndougtaylor

       Metropolitan United Church c. 1925, St. Michael’s Cathedral on Bond Street in the background. Toronto Archives, F 1568, Item 04641. Metropolitan United (Methodist) Church

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Terrace/balcony gardening—Toronto—2016

September 22, 2016 johndougtaylor

Terrace/balcony gardening during the summer of 2016 was the best of the sixteen years that I have lived in my condominium in the heart of

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Theatre book featured in Toronto Life Magazine

September 21, 2016 johndougtaylor

                                      The October 2016 issue of Toronto Life magazine features an article on the recently published book by Doug Taylor about Toronto’s old movie

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Views of Toronto—Then and Now

September 19, 2016 johndougtaylor

                            “Toronto Then and Now,” published by Pavilion Press (London, England), is a coffee-table style book that explores 75 heritage sites in Toronto and illustrates

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Frank Stollery store-demolished 2015

September 13, 2016 johndougtaylor

Frank Stollery’s store at Yonge and Bloor Streets in the 1970s. Toronto Archives F124, S 1465, fl 0685, it. 109 During the mid-1950s, I was

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