Recent content by jbcurio

Looks like it was The Bay -> Sears -> Wal-Mart. Just double-checked a few sources, and here's an ad from The Bay's opening day at STC in 1979 as part of a 240,000 sq ft expansion. Simpsons also had an ad that day touting "Kenmore Days" at all of its GTA locations, including STC (in what was the...

As far as Scarborough Town Centre goes: Simpsons -> The Bay The Bay -> Wal-Mart (Wikipedia claims Sears was located in between - was this true?) Eatons -> Sears

Does anyone know which TTC bus routes directly serviced Yorkdale prior to the opening of the Spadina subway in 1978? I'm assuming Dufferin did, but which others went into or dropped passengers off close to the mall?

While browsing the Value Village in Leslieville last weekend, I found a mug featuring the TTC logo and a front-end loader - does anyone know if this was part of a series, if they released to the public or were an internal TTC gift? The only identifying mark on it is a 1982 copyright date under...

Hi, I haven't had much luck coming up with any information on either of these places that I recently found old pictures of (circa 1976) in the city archives. The Varsity was located next to the Scotiabank at the NE corner of Bloor and Spadina, where Pizza Pizza is now (which itself appears...

I was driving through the Pleasant View area recently and noticed a street called Lucifer Drive as I drove along Van Horne. Does anyone have an inkling of how/why this one-block street by the Pleasant View community centre?

Thanks for the tips!

Hi, I'm having difficulty finding a date/year for when the St. Clair Centre was built and/or opened (and when Loblaws/George Weston moved their offices in and out of the complex). Thanks!

The Dominion at Bayview and Eglinton is receiving a makeover - a temporary entrance has been built at the north end of the store, while the red trim is being stripped away and welders were dismantling the white arches over the (closed) main entrance yesterday. Something buried deep in my brain...

For years, I've noticed the funky Mother's Sandwich sign at College and Spadina. I have found an article about its opening back in the 70s but does anyone know anything about the history of it - when it closed, was it any good, etc.

Hi, I was wandering through the all-but-abandoned Swansea Plaza near Queensway and South Kingsway last week. While the former locations of Shoppers and Valu-Mart were identifiable, I haven't been able to figure out what the blue-trim store below was (the labelscar wasn't readable enough). It...

Hmm...multi-national...small downtown sites...given that it has recently entered the US, I wonder if Tesco is looking at Canada? Given such a race for small downtown sites, what does Loblaws now think about its move out of such sites over the past decade?

Hi, just looking for a little help in tracing a building. Is 331 Yonge (the one-time Starvin' Marvin's burlesque) now incorporated into HMV (333 Yonge, the former location of Le Coq D'Or) or was it now where the north end of Metropolis/Toronto Life Centre sits? Does anyone also have a rough...