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blondin ave. I remember the original Bad Boy store in that plaza on weston rd. I remember Mel himself dressing up in a black and white stripped costume and riding around the local streets in a mock jail cell on a trailer pulled by one of his delivery vans. I also recall a large white two story...

Who's this chubby guy?

challenging a parking ticket You will be very wrong in thinking no one will show up in court to challenge you regarding your ticket. Parking enforcement officers get paid extra for attending court. On average it's four to six hours of extra pay. And as part of their job they are required...

don't phone the parking authority, but phone toronto parking enforcement, they are not the same. toronto parking authority only looks after off street parking lots. Parking enforcement looks after everything else. Toronto parking enforcements number is 416 808 2222.

parking enforcement if you can the Police for parking enforcement to attend a parking problem, and they don't show up, call again and lodge a complaint. But in their defence, they city put most of their officers in the down town core. And only a few in the outter areas, like Etobicoke. The...

police at construction sites at $65.00/hr who better to stand around with the other constructiion workers and watch one man dig a hole.

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I don't live in the area, but often when I visit friends in north Rexdale, I find parking to be a problem. If I leave my car on the street, I get a ticket, if I park it in my friends driveway and hang over the side walk an inch or two, I get a ticket! Once I parked faceing the wrong way on the...

desi doubkle what the heck is he saying?

what the heck is he saying?

newly constructed highway 401 at weston rd. excellent shot, at the intersection of Walsh and Wilson you can see the newly constructed service station. This was my fathers B/A gas and service station. Have printed off all these photos showing this area, brings back alot of memories...

Kipling & Steeles the east/west roadway use to be steeles ave. Going north on Kipling ave just north of steeles ave, on the right side of the street use to be one of Torontos city garbage dumps. (late 50's to early 60's) The city left this piece of old steeles ave there because in the field...

lost neighbourhood; Blondin Ave. loved seeing these photos, brought back alot of memories... My late father owned a B/A gas station at the intersection of Walsh and Wilson Ave. It's now a used car lot. He first open his service station in the mid 50's and worked it till his death in 1964. As...