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Reply to Hudson8 from Hudson-9, previously MAyfair (way back when)

Maps circa 1860 say no.

Exhibition at City of Toronto Archives Found in today's issue of OGS Toronto Branch Electronic Bulletin: New exhibition at the City of Toronto Archives Picturing Immigrants in the Ward: How photography shaped ideas about Central and Eastern European immigrants in early 20th-century...

None of the "towers of Toronto" built since 1970 do anything for me. I suffer from vertigo.

What's going on today? First Leadlays, then Blatchfords, then the place I had my first job. Those weren't half heavy doors.

Re Blatchfords. Got my first pair of penny loafers in the store at Yonge and St Germain. But how many generations back were the entries in the circa 1860 city directories I don't know.

So, if the wool is still attached to the skin you "pull" it to make it useful, but if the wool is off the skin, you "full" it. Learn sumpin' new everyday. The next earlier generation of Leadlays had a wharf just east of Yonge, if I recall correctly. /cheers nomoreatorontonian

BTW, the picture is titled 16 St Vincent, not 6. But it does tell me how come my recently widowed great-grandmother could afford to rent 5 St Vincent shortly after she came down from Barrie with her six teenage kids in the mid-1890s. The east side of the street were a full two storeys, if...

In Manchester, even in 2012, they would all be wearing jackets. BeeRich: the serving staff visible were waitresses! Goldie: What was the "do"?

Because no one was wearing a jacket.

A Walk on the Old Side I took a walk along Adelaide West via Google Earth Street View the other day and found the construction site of the Shangri La hotel. Although I can't provide a visual picture of what the block looked like 150 years ago I thought you might like to see who was living there...

Must have been the last time anyone found a parking space on Yonge anywhere!

The first house I ever lived in is on that Centre Island map. Wow! What's the date of the map, Goldie? There are lots blocked out on Manitou Road which were stores in the 1940s.

Goldie, I couldn't spot "Old Lawrence Ave" on Google Maps, but Lawrence East stops at Bayview and to continue east you have to go up to the Post Road and south again to get back to it. But if you continue directly across Bayview from the west, you are in the grounds of Grendon Hall of York...

Are these plaques on a website anywhere?

No more than you can duplicate the punchcards those girls were really working with in PSI (Physicians Surgeons Incorporated for the uninitiated).

And the trolley wires coming off the cable. :( I would have expected a high rise instead of that "petrol" station long before this -- or would it have spoiled the view of UCC?

"North side of Eglinton between Oriole and Spadina." No. North side of Eglinton between Oriole and Avenue Road. But it's the south side photos that are interesting. That empty space just east of Avenue Road is still there! But even after 45 years away from TO you could dump me on that block...

Not only has it been a hotel since 1909, but Jonathan Mossop was running The Western Hotel at 46 Yonge St in 1864 (Mitchell's Directory)!

Just before Christmas during 2 or 3 years in the 1950s, a few of us teenagers from our church used to go down to the Mission to unwrap and sort the "White Gifts" that were collected by many churches for those in need that the mission catered for. Sorting of White Gifts was necessary. You didn't...