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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Breadalbane says that it is a large tract of land in Perthshire, Scotland--better than remembering that the Earl of Breadalbane was the Campbell who got the Macdonalds out of Glencoe. Breadalbane Street, Toronto, was named before 1861, possibly at the same time...

In 1900, when she was 20, my grandmother lived in the house on the right with the sun shining on the bay window. As an old lady she always said she was going "down street" when she meant going downtown. Many years after her death I discovered that she worked at Eaton's when she lived on St...

I like the uniform it took to make out a parking ticket in the 1950s.

adma, what used to be on the site of those Av Rd townies? Don't know whether adma knows or not, but I remember them as another set of Avenue Road townhouses--with flat roofs, blonde brickwork and enough space to park a car or two.

Oh, does that bring back memories of the local neighbourhood. I lived on St Germain till 1957, Glenview 1957-1965. You didn't get the angle quite right in your new picture. I can't see the Beer Store. /cheers from the UK

It's the bus stop for the bus to the Docks for the island ferries. Well, on that corner it's got to be the bus from the Docks. There was a picture on another site the other day of the last Bay Street streetcar. We lived on the island when I was a kid. Waiting on that streetcar down at the...

Flappers! In 1913? I hate to think of what might have happened to them a year or two later.

Thanks for clueing me in 50 years later.

I wish all the City of Toronto Archives pictures were dated. I would love to know who dared to put on their "gig" in the centre of Yonge Street (#653) and which pipeband was holding up the streetcars on King (#654).

A few weeks ago there was another picture of the Dundas-Yonge subway entrance with a construction worker anxiously checking the state of the concrete form. Now we know why--it looks like it fell in at one time--before or after?

They actually took the stucco off this one.

The Avenue Theatre/Cinema became a live theatre in the mid-fifties. I recall it staged the Spring Thaw revue for a few years. It went bust around 1958 when A Streetcar Named Desire was playing. I recall seeing the sign for months when the Nortown Bus turned on to Eglinton from Avenue Road. I...