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    TTC: Flexity Streetcars Testing & Delivery (Bombardier)

    I can report that 4603 was delivered to Hillcrest successfully this afternoon - around 3:30pm or so.
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    TTC: Flexity Streetcars Testing & Delivery (Bombardier)

    So I’m guessing that means they’ll deliver 4603 tomorrow - given it seems to take a couple or hours or so for the yard crew at Lambton to do the move... and they can’t do that until the previous delivery is clear...
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    TTC: Flexity Streetcars Testing & Delivery (Bombardier)

    What does the article say? I’m not a subscriber.
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    TTC: Flexity Streetcars Testing & Delivery (Bombardier)

    A friend told me the Star had it that the last of the new streetcars are to be delivered to Hillcrest by Wednesday. Is this 4603 or 4401 or both? I figure I’ll go out and watch the proceedings tomorrow afternoon.
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    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    Some further detail on this vehicle. It was driven by Harold Homer "Jack" Petticord. I think this photo actually dates from 1923, as Petticord's race record indicates he performed with this car, named "Straw Streak", on Aug 25 and 27, 1923 as part of a Canadian race tour. For his efforts he...
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    What I Miss About Toronto In 60's

    I'm a bit late to the game here but I'd like to mention that my brother and I attended Mrs. Band's Nursery School at 478 Huron St. during the early 1970's. My parents still live on Admiral Rd. nearby. My mother would drop us off there on her way to her teaching position at the U of T. I have...
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    Captain John's Restaurant (1975-2012)

    The document states "...which allows for safe assumption that vessel is safely afloat...for outward towage." When they refer to demolition it seems they are saying, essentially, that any bid to take the boat away should be done with the assumption that the boat should be towed somewhere nearby...
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Mammo's definitely not running unopposed this time around - there are five other candidates listed so far for Ward 7 Councillor. http://app.toronto.ca/vote/candidatesByWard.do?officeType=2&ward=7
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    Rob Ford's Toronto

    Dunno if anyone noticed but the initial news stories that came out with Doug saying Rob would be back to work by July 1st, were dated June 2nd. Knowing that, there isn't anything particularly newsworthy about this memo being released except for the fact the dutiful media has put Rob in the news...
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    Quality Meats slaughterhouse (2 Tecumseth Street) CLOSED

    http://www.foodmanufacturing.com/news/2013/08/study-pork-popularity-growing-fast http://www.agr.gc.ca/redmeat-vianderouge/about_propos_eng.htm
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    Quality Meats slaughterhouse (2 Tecumseth Street) CLOSED

    if the abattoir's owners are selling due to bankruptcy then I would bet that the 25% of pork production we are about to "lose" is already being handled somewhere else by a better-managed company. It is very likely that this facility was simply too old to run and/or upgrade regularly to keep up...
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    2014 Municipal Election: Toronto Council Races

    We had a phone survey on Saturday... I live in Ward 14 (Perks' ward) First couple of questions were around the EDM club situation on the Ex property. And then the questions went to who would you vote for if there were only x candidates for councillor in the ward in the next election, and...
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    Future of the Hearn Generating Station

    In a perfect world, people of vision would look at the Hearn and see it as an opportunity similar to the Bankside Power Station's conversion to the Tate Modern gallery in London, England. But the Tate Modern cost $250 million to renovate back in 2000. I shudder to think what would happen here...
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    Central Waterfront 1950s-70s

    here's a shot from the same series that highlights one of my favourite parts of the central waterfront (at the foot of Bathurst St.) from when I grew up in the 1970's. the fenced off area in the middle of the photo is a kids' construction park where it was possible to spend part of your...
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    Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

    just seeing them in action brought back a nice memory of the smell...
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    Toronto skyline

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigdaddyhame/8578761148/in/photostream
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    Parkdale Village

    I like what Gord Perks is doing - essentially he's giving other kinds of businesses a chance to get a foothold in the neighbourhood. While restaurants and bars can be good - the area already has a bunch of them (as well as several new ones that are yummy and interesting...)... and this will...
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    Toronto Aerial Pics

    hey, some of us miss those railyards! /railfan
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    I wonder when the Eyre house was torn down.. When I was a kid living in the area in the 1970's-1980's it was a service station and later the Rodeo Detailing/Wash.
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    Miscellany Toronto Photographs: Then and Now

    love that building. I went to a rave there one hallowe'en night years ago, called "Samhain Wasteland" (pt. 2) - the sequel to a a rave that was put on in the Wellington Destructor building a year or two before. Both were terrific events, both broken up by the police (and fire department in the...

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