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Just a personal memory when I saw these photos. In the early years of the 1960s I was an altar boy at St. Basil's Church across St. Joseph Street from this convent. On a couple of occasions, the church pastor handed me the plain beige biscuit tin in which the communion wafers (unconsecrated of...

Does anyone know what happened to Le Trou Normand on Yorkville Ave.? Walked past it yesterday and saw that the gate was chained and the posted menus still promoted Winterlicious and most sheets were curled up from the sun. It used to be a "place" to go in the 70s and 80s. I recall a splurge...

Thank you, Charioteer. These bring back many memories...and fill in a couple of gaps where memory failed me. I will attempt to add some comments on individual photos in the coming days. Not surprisingly, it was the memories of the people that I associate with these places that came flooding...

Any more views of the East side of Avenue Road from this set? I have been enjoying the photos of historic Toronto in this thread as well as other threads for several months now. However, this recent posting showing Avenue Road in 1959 has a special impact as I grew up on Pears Avenue (east of...