Then. Jan. 15, 1947. Lawrence Ave. about 150 west of Yonge looking East. Some interesting old street lights here. Nighttime must have been a lot darker in Toronto in those days; even supposing if something like a 120 watt incandescent bulb was used. Boring you yet?  :)

As a boy I remember that old bank branch on the left... I grew up a few blocks to the south.

Now. August 2012.

The houses in the left distance — fourplexes — still exist, obscured by trees in the Now view. There are about eight of these houses in a row. Probably all owned by one owner as all are maintained to the same 1940s look and high standard with sympathetic paintwork and (I think) original windows. Easy on the eyes they are; a row of guardians of a sort of staunch or respectable propriety that we might imagine North Toronto citizens of a time past may have thought of themselves.

The George Locke library is in the right distance. Built in 1949, it occupies a kind of midpoint in a timeline of library construction in Toronto. Faced in stone but with airy windows it seems to me to be a unique 'one off' —between the early styles such as Roncesvalles or Beaches branch and later branches such as Forest Hill. My children studied and borrowed from Locke branch. In pre-internet days libraries were such busy places.