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I should have put the word risky in quotation marks. The kids were free to explore and take risks and play all day. We used to jump off our parents garage roofs, in summer!, no snow to cushion the landing. No helicopter parents. They just played and socialized.

Well, that is fascinating. My ex went to a one room school house north of Acton, Ontario in the 1960’s. It was two miles, not kilometres, there and two miles back. Sometimes they got a ride, in a car. They started in Grade 1. The current thought is that children should be allowed risky play...

All those lovely elm trees. 😢

The dry cleaners/laundramat survived.

What amazes me, for all that we lose…these days there’s so much still existing!

My mother took her private pilots licence school at Buttonville in the very early 1960’s. Oh the math was hard! My father helped her a lot, (observer in the Fleet Air Arm WW2). We children spent many a weekend roaming around the facility, it was in the middle of nowhere at the time. One time her...

Front Street and Frederick Street The movable lakeshore.

Licensed….by who? No mention of the LLBO or any city entity

Our house in 1961 at Lawrence Park had that monster coal furnace too, but it had already been converted to oil burning. We had radiators. Interestingly, when my father bought the house in 1961, there were two inoperable gas lamps on the living room walls, one on each side of the living room...

The old Bank of Montreal building had a clock at its corner. The new one has an electronic display in the same location. Somehow I like the clock better.

Looks like they saved some of the good parts.

I did a little bit of research. The Chamber of Commerce, Parry Sound pointed me to a website that had a photo of that location where the horse trough is, and it wasn’t there in 1869. The Parry Sound Museum told me it was manufactured by the Canada Foundry company Limited. Further digging led to...

That’s why I called it “evocative”. What I liked is that it still works. I have no idea of the provenance of the one in Parry Sound.

Evocative….the old horse trough Toronto. Today, and functional every summer in Parry Sound.

And made change. I remember the honour boxes too.

McD’s still using the same sign!

I was reading an obit today that referenced a woman as a young lady was living at Willard Hall before her marriage.

Lovely iron gate between the two buildings. Wonder where it went?

There’s a lot of ancient water under High Park. https://highparknature.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/High%20Parks%20Hidden%20Waters.pdf