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Yes, that's where the streetcar ended before being cut back to Victoria Park. But I was referring to the electric radial that ran all the way up to West Hill. There are traces of it along Kingston Rd even today...

That little wood structure in the foreground of the before photo is one of the old shelters for the electric radial that used to run on Kingston Rd

And sometimes they don't even bother covering them up

We are looking at the west side of YPT, but the building has been changed since the days of the Toronto Railway Company. Count the number of windows, then check this Google maps image. The south half of the building has been torn down. This building used to extend halfway down the block. The...

Got it. What we're looking at is the west side of the TTC's Sherbourne St Freight Shed. In 1927, the TTC took over the Metropolitan Railway, which used to run from the CPR North Toronto (later cut back to Glen Echo) all the way to Lake Simcoe along Yonge St. At first the line was run as a...

A little earlier, because the trolley bus that replaced the Rogers Rd streetcar started running on July 21, 1974. Since this is a summer photo, and I don't think they've strung the additional wires for trolley buses, the latest this photo could be is the summer of 1973.

The streetcar platform with direct access to Bloor station was built right at this spot, wasn't it? (Still a few years in the future when the photo was taken)

Confirmed. You can replicate the then shot almost exactly in Google Maps, complete with background building

A Hamilton centered commuter rail system

According to the Goads 1913 Fire insurance map, 350 Danforth was on the North side of the street, just west of Pape. http://www.toronto.ca/archives/goads_fire_insurance_plans.htm I think the bicycle against the fence on the left side of the photo is on the property of the church that's...

Yup. And even the opening of the viaduct didn't change things. It wasn't until 1923 that there was through service along Danforth & Bloor. History of the Bloor Streetcar

Goldie, when you took this photo were you aware that the buildings on Danforth Ave were renumbered around 1921? For example, today 2500 Danforth Ave is just west of Main St, but during WWI the same site would have been 1450 (ish) Danforth Ave.

The catalyst for development on Danforth wasn't the completion of the Viaduct, it was the completion of the Danforth Streetcar by the Toronto Civic Railways. Construction began in August 1912, and the line opened on October 30, 1915. (Great book on this is 'The Toronto Civic Railways' by J...

So, moving on "115" Cameron Ave, built in the 1990s 76 Stuart Cresent 10 Stuart Cresent, certainly colourful "3" Florence Ave 132 Florence Ave, always loved that balcony

I grew up in the neighbourhood southwest of Yonge & Sheppard, so here are some of the oddities from my old stomping grounds 4 Gwendolen Cres "54" Gwendolen Ave, too bad about the lousy angle. This house is much improved, it used to be sea green. (the quotes are the Google address, which is...

While the Rogers Road route ended in 1974, some streetcar tracks in the Rogers Rd & Keele area were never paved over, and were still there almost 30 years later

Sorry Mustafa, but this isn't Toronto This is the SE corner of King & John in Hamilton. It's the first Hamilton intercity bus terminal, located on the ground floor of the W.E. Sanford building. The building on the right of the first photo is the Hamilton central post office, the 5th one...

Strange that the grey house has completely covered over the third floor front windows. I wonder why?

Strange that the gray house has completely covered over the third floor front windows. I wonder why?