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If I recall, you can still get some ice cream from the snack bar. Good stuff, too!

I've been in the neighbourhood about 30 years, what would you like to know? :)

According to imdb.com, "The Destroyer" starring Edward G. Robinson (everyone's favourite whiny, obnoxious taskmaster in "The Ten Commandments") and Glenn Ford was released in 1943. That should help date the "Then" photo of the Centre Theatre on Dundas. I wonder if the theatre was still...

This is so sad. My sister got married six years ago, and we went to these fountains in their full glory to take photos of us bridesmaids splashing around in them. I understand that fountains aren't the greatest things for energy conservation in a city, but there's got to be a better way of...

The salt's really just a way of preserving it; you're technically supposed to soak it in cold water for about a day before, dumping and refilling the basin every few hours. It freshens up quite a bit then, and is way less salty and much tastier. Not only Newfoundlanders, but Portuguese -...

Indeed they did ... Tonks' Hardware used to be just west of the variety store, in the same building. I loved going there with my dad as a kid, and I remember getting my first house key cut there. :) Sadly, it's your run of the mill neighbourhood dollar store now.

Yeah, though that day will be a LONG time coming; they're building another type of "big box" style retail space of some sort right up against that Staples at the moment.

Dundas just west of Bathurst ... my much-missed grandparents' house was just a few blocks away. :(

I'm actually a teacher at the small elementary school located within the Distillery (the kids in the green hoodies enjoying recess are some of mine). We took the younger grades out Trick or Treating in the Distillery in the afternoon and they absolutely loved it. It's great to have the...