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Looking at the pictures of a growing young Scarborough, then seeing the now side and living here since 1983 I cannot help thinking how much it has stagnated in the past few years...well, really since amalgamation. For 4 years Scarborough transit has been on the discussion table...arguments...

Nice pics. Interesting feeling...I grew up downtown and did not know Scarborough until my friends moved there in late 69 or so. Looking at these photos, the "Pioneering" that went on in Scarborough, I have come to realize was not all that long ago. Where I live now, north east Scarborough was...

LOL...am I the only one with the video of the "Chain of Life" (small fish being eaten by the bigger fish which is eaten by an even bigger fish) in my head?

I was a meter reader from '70's thru to late 90's. The meter reader who had The World's Largest Bookstore on his route, sometime in the late 80's had filed a Health and Safety report about a black oily seepage on the floor in the meter room at the Worlds Biggest Bookstore, near the boiler room...

I think there used to be one in Perkinsfield, just outside Midland, Ont. that was reconditioned into a restaurant, but it was gone when we were up there a couple of years ago. I think the only PCC streetcars left in the Toronto area are in the Halton County Radial Railway Museum. We were there a...

Both Yonge and St Clair look like heavily traveled routes even in the 1800's. Incidentally, the 1974 pic contains the most iconic representation of the middle quarter of Toronto's 20th century downtown to mid town history...the PCC street car. I always loved its design and look.

When my friend lived on Commonwealth, we were part of "The Loser Club"...we rarely had dates much less girlfiends, but there were girls in our bunch. We all smoked but none of us were EVER druggies or serious drinkers, except my friend's sister. I rarely had money, but my friend's Mom always...

Yep. They were bought out by BP in 1974 or 75. I think they turned into Gulf and then PetroCanada. Not sure about the Gulf part. Cant quite remember. On long trips my parents would play "Gas Station". Of course my Dad always won because he always took Esso. But when Gulf Canada came along, we...

Wow, thats awesome! Thanks for the memory, Anna!!!

Wow...that is interesting to me. My best friend lived right across the street at 113 Commonwealth. They lived there in 1972 to about 1974, if my memory serves me right. Their house (a rental) was torn down a while back and a new house was built. While my friend lived there, the house next door...

OMG...my wife and I honeymooned there for three days in December of 1975. It was all we could afford. We stayed in room 435. Every time the heat in our room kicked on the whole room vibrated for a minute or two. We saw Danny and the Juniors in their show on the Sunday night.

I have always found it ironic that the Ponderosa Steakhouse (Eglinton/west of Bellamy) is now the "Toronto Funeral Centre". High cholesterol will get you one way or another.

Thanks. Lots of murals and lots of info. Im gonna get lost in there tonight in an enjoyable excurion.

LOL...you might be right. I'll check it out. Thanks.

Thanks, Goldie, the mural is interesting and beautiful, but I'm actually interested in the history of the gas meter and who painted the strawberry on it. It is currently in the meter shop at Enbridge and shop employees have always been interested in who painted it. Most meters are ugly gray...

The first pic (Highland Creek mural)...when was it taken? That gas meter painted like a stawberry (or one similar to it) is sitting in the meter shop at Enbridge right now, and has been for a while. The employees who work there have always been curious as to who did such a great job of painting...

Streetcars Streetcars always have been part of Toronto's charm. To remove them from service to serve some idiotic notion that Ford needs to do this to further his the "war on cars" is over argument would be like spitting on the heritage of the city. I am a suburbanite now (Scarborough). But I...