Postcard depicting the Old City Hall, Toronto in 1910. Photo Toronto Public Library, pck-2198 Postcards have lost their importance in today’s world. They are rarely
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Memories of Toronto’s restaurants of the past
Dining in Toronto in past decades was far different to the culinary scene that the city now offers. When I was a boy in the
Toronto’s old Community Theatre on Woodbine Avenue
The Community Theatre at 1202 Woodbine Avenue c. 1937. The Community Theatre was the second building east of the southwest corner of Woodbine and
One of Toronto’s newest “red rockets,” northbound on Spadina Avenue on July 10, 2015. When the city of Toronto was the small colonial town of
Toronto’s old Academy Theatre on Bloor Street West
The Academy Theatre at 1286 Bloor Street West was one of Toronto’s earliest movie theatre. Plans for it were submitted to the city in November
Toronto’s old Clyde (Avalon) Theatre
The Clyde (Avalon) theatre was built in the years after the Prince Edward Viaduct (Bloor Viaduct) was constructed across the Don Valley in 1919. During
Toronto’s old Variety (Arcadian) Theatre
The former branch of the Bank of Montreal on the northeast corner of Yonge and Queen Streets, the Variety Theatre on its east side (right-hand
History—Toronto’s Cecil Street Community Centre
The Community Centre at 58 Cecil Street is situated on a residential street south of College Street, to the east of the ever-busy Spadina Avenue.
Toronto’s Ryerson Press Building—Bell Media
The former Ryerson Press Building at 299 Queen Street, City of Toronto Archives, Fl 1231, It.0761 The five-storey, white “industrial Gothic” building on the southeast
Toronto’s 441-443 Queen West at Spadina
The view in the above photo gazes east along Queen Street on September 29, 1910, from a short distance west of Spadina Avenue. On the