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Toronto’s golden age of postcards

October 20, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

October 5, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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Toronto’s old Community Theatre on Woodbine Avenue

July 22, 2015 johndougtaylor

  The Community Theatre at 1202 Woodbine Avenue c. 1937. The Community Theatre was the second building east of the southwest corner of Woodbine and

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Toronto streetcars—from Omnibus to Red Rocket

July 17, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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Toronto’s old Academy Theatre on Bloor Street West

July 7, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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Toronto’s old Clyde (Avalon) Theatre

June 25, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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Toronto’s old Variety (Arcadian) Theatre

June 24, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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History—Toronto’s Cecil Street Community Centre

June 15, 2015 johndougtaylor

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.

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Toronto’s Ryerson Press Building—Bell Media

June 9, 2015February 4, 2021 johndougtaylor

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

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Toronto’s 441-443 Queen West at Spadina

June 2, 2015 johndougtaylor

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

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