Category: toronto’s modern theatres

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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A Peter Witt Streetcar #2894, built by Ottawa Car Company for the Toronto Transportation Commission (later renamed the Toronto Transit Commission) My earliest memories of

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“Toronto’s Lost CNE” refers to structures and features that over the past decades have been demolished or discontinued. Though I remain a fan of the

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Government House—”Chorley Park” on July 4, 1924. Toronto Archives, F1548, S 0393, Item 1899. The term “Government House” is the official title that applies to

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  Sometimes, I teasingly tell people that there are three terrible aspects of living in Canada – January, February and March. However, I quickly add

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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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                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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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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The old Toronto Star newspaper building is the large structure on the left-hand side of the photo.The view is from the southwest, looking at the

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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

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