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Toronto’s Sunnyside Amusement Park (demolished)
Sunnyside Amusement Park in 1923. When I visited it as a child in the 1940s, its appearance was basically the same, so the above photo
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Demolition of historic Westinghouse building
The Westinghouse building on the southeast corner of Peter and King Street West is being demolished (April 2016), only the north and west facades being
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Toronto’s Brunswick House (now closed)
The Brunswick House, view gazing east along Bloor Street from west of Brunswick Avenue. The Brunswick House, a well-known icon of the Toronto pub scene
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Arena Gardens (Mutual Street Arena) now demolished
Mutual Street Arena, City of Toronto Archives, SC 646 When I was a boy in the 1940s, my friends and I enjoyed roller skating
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Toronto’s Cyclorama (demolished) on Front Street
In the foreground is the building that once housed Toronto’s Cyclorama, on Front Street West. The photo was taken c. 1975, the year prior to
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Walker House Hotel (demolished) – Front and York Streets
The Walker House (hotel) on the southwest corner of Front and York Streets in 1954, Toronto Public Library r- 4958 Although I was never inside
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Fond Memories of Sam the Record Man
Sam the Record Man on Yonge Street in 1971, Toronto Archives, F1526, fl 0003, Item 0025 My earliest memories of purchasing records from Sam
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Fond Memories of A and A Records (demolished|)
In the 1950s, “A&A Records” and “Sam the Record Man,” two stores on Yonge Street, were an integral part of my teenage years. They were
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Toronto’s old Cumberland Four Theatre
The Cumberland Four Theatre in Toronto’s trendy Yorkville, Toronto Archives, Series 881, File 353 The multiplex theatre, the Cumberland Four, was located at 159 Cumberland