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Golly, they hadn't even planted those trees 80 years ago!

Centre Island Yes, I have some photos of Manitou Ave or "the main drag", but finding them at the moment is just not a priority. We spent our summers on the island when I was a little kid. There was a greater variety of stores on Manitou than there are now in the village I live in.

I thought there was one on Avenue Road near Melrose in 1965. It could have been another chain, though.

1910. One horse and cart, one car, two bicycles, and somebody crossing the street with two meals "to go". Not everything has changed.

I'll say it's soulless. Particularly after the first picture. My dad, who lived on Manning Avenue in 1920 or so, was a "butcher boy" and did deliveries on his bicycle for a local firm. But I think the butcher was Murphy. Thanks for the Moo Goo Gai Pan recipe. I might just use it.

Did we really pay those kind of prices for a Chinese meal in the 60s? Inflation is really frustrating. What is Moo Goo Gai Pan?

I'm thinking this facade (below) now hosting a DACKS shoe store on Yonge is one of only two survivors left on the Yonge>Adelaide>King>Bay block in your old map. The other being the old 'Fairweathers' - now a Moores menswear store (not shown in either picture). August 5 addition. Yonge...

Garbage 1940s style One guy looks like he's about to pull out his tommy gun and shoot the garbage full of holes. Could someone a bit closer to Toronto check out photos of Toronto politicians of the 1940s. I think the guy in the middle of that picture was Mayor Saunders. :D

The Lost Rivers website page on Garrison Creek (http://www.lostrivers.ca/GarrisonCreek.htm) covers a lot of the history. I have a map from 1862 in which only Queen and Bloor cross the Creek. It was almost the west end of Toronto then. Wish I could share the map, but it's too big to send even a...

The gatepost has "Alexandra Blvd" attached to it in this picture, so that places 2708 at Alexandra. The house was still there 9 years ago when I last visited the funeral parlour across the road to the south. #2668 has got to be further south. The gas station in a later picture is the one at...

Yonge and Mill looking ENE. Was the skating rink originally the Jolly Miller Swimming Pool? Or was that on the southeast corner? The swimming pool "drowned" in Hurricane Hazel for those whose memories don't stretch that far back.

And given a good movie, even on a cold evening in January the lineup could stretch to Bloor Street.

Mitchell's Directory of Toronto of 1864 lists 4 photographers with premises in that block of King Street. D C Butchart's portrait gallery was five doors from the corner of West Market Street. Is that the building with the big windows (message 996)?

Mount Pleasant--the lights at the cemetery entrance.

Enough about your memories of your life-styles circa 1980, could you please tell me when this building was built and where it was originally located? I am trying to link it with Betley & Kay & Co (proprietor John Kay) whose address was 2 King St East in 1861. You say the building (or the facade)...

I had a look back in time from the 1930 Front & Simcoe loop picture. Goad's Maps of 1910(http://ohqdigit.tpl.toronto.on.ca/OHQ_Maps/image/189.sid) show the Grand Union Hotel on the ne corner of Front & Simcoe, followed by "R Simpson & Co's Wrehse". The building with the signage is not named, but...

Early closing has petered out in Britain, but some privately owned shops still practice it. (I live in what is officially known as a village--of 10,000 people.) There is much more cooperation now than there used to be so that there is not a vast area all closed on the same day. It was designed...

Oh, you young 'uns! Drug stores were usually open on a Sunday in the late 40s. I can recall my dad dashing into one on the corner of Danforth & Broadview to get a block of ice cream when we went to dinner at the grandparents. Of course, this was done on a transfer between street cars and...

Lucky him.

I've been watching for an answer to this one. It seems vaguely familiar. Is it somewhere north of Eglinton & south of Lawrence? Not even sure which side of Yonge.