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A-ha – strawberry preserves

I wonder how they managed strawberry tart in January...

“Try a lap dance” in neon lights displeased the censorship board?

Thanks for the link. Another good site with a wealth of images: http://www.maryevans.com/

It’s hard to comprehend today what must have been so much destruction. Looking at areas we knew in London and beyond when we lived there in 1970-71, and the number of bomb sites shown on the map, it’s amazing anything was left. And yet it seems most of the Victorian, Regency, Georgian and...

George’s Spaghetti House was at Sherbourne and Dundas (nw corner). My husband and I went there (once) when we were dating (it seemed exotic in 1969 Toronto – free jazz and a cockroach crawling up the wall!). According to Google street view it’s now the True Love Cafe.

Completely hideous

The Adams catalogue is a fascinating look at what went into all those massive houses being built around the end of the 19th century.

Staying with retail, I found an interesting write-up about construction of the “new” Simpsons store in the October 1895 issue of Canadian Architect and Builder. The iron structure was made by the Hamilton bridgeworks, then assembled at the store site. (Vol. 8, issue 10, page 115). If you go back...

A nice focal point amidst all those rigid straight lines.

John Ross Robertson School and Glenholme P.S. (aka Rawlinson), designed by D.R. Franklin and identical in plan, were the winners of a Toronto school competition (21 schemes submitted). The winning architect wouldn't allow his designs to be published but here's an article about it from 1919...

It seems to have been antipathy toward Catholics in particular, which didn’t affect my family. In New York wasn't it was hatred of Irish in general (one reason for the formation of the NYPD)? BTW my family were members at St James (Cathedral) but left that church because of the difficulty they...

Exactly!

I just had to replace a 35-year-old wall oven because the wiring inside was disintegrating and I can’t afford to keep having the repairman back, or to have the oven stop working when I’m trying to cook Christmas dinner for 12. The new oven is all shiny and lovely but has a stupid noisy fan...

They landed at Boston, and went to Buffalo because my great-great-grandmother had family there (her brother and his wife, and her oldest sister and her family had emigrated from Ireland some time earlier). I don’t know why they moved to Toronto 10 years later. My father thought it was because...

Yes, that’s him. Thank you for finding this! After 111 King St E he moved the business to 86 Yonge St for a number of years. (I noticed a photo of 86 Yonge around page 561 of this forum but I think it must be the building after the one he occupied in the 1860s.) From 1864-66 he also had a store...

In the old view on the left, of St. James looking se from Church St., you can just see one window of a building on the south side of King St. That would be 111 King St. E., where my great-great-grandparents lived when they moved to Toronto from Ireland (via Liverpool, where they had waited two...

I discovered this great site yesterday and have been working my way through from page one! Re the old North York Market (City Limits), I’m sure the car dealership occupied the same building; you can just see the old brick facade behind the new plate glass facade. The Loblaws store is...