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Just imagine what their heating bill looked like... No sir, I wouldn't trust my money to a bank that built branches like that.
Just imagine what their heating bill looked like... No sir, I wouldn't trust my money to a bank that built branches like that.
Thorncliffe, yes. The anchor Sayvette store was a draw in the 60s for my parents, so I remember this interior.
Just imagine what their heating bill looked like... No sir, I wouldn't trust my money to a bank that built branches like that.
There was an article in Friday's Globe & Mail by UTer Dave LeBlanc about a house owned and designed in the 50's by A. Bruce Etherington, "the designer of over 900 branches of the Toronto Dominion Bank". It says
" By then, he'd landed the commission to design every new branch of the rapidly expanding Toronto Dominion Bank using a modular system that allowed each to “appear to be unique†but were really all related under the skin."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/50s-styling-thats-right-up-to-date/article1387043/
My apologies for replying to such an old post in an equally as old thread, however I noticed someone mentioned the area of Dixie and Winding Trail for this photo. This is indeed correct, and the view in that photo is looking northeast on Williamsport Drive towards Gulledin Drive.
I'll stop by sometime soon for a current day photo from exactly the same angle, but streetview will have to do for now.
I believe the Savette was where Shoppers Drug Mart is now, previously a Wal-Mart and previously a Woolco.Speaking of Sayvette, does anyone know where the Sayvette in Ajax was? It was apparently the last of the chain to close. There's nowhere that I know of in Ajax's older strip malls that looks large enough to support that kind of store, except possibly one spot in the Harwood Plaza. Ajax has a Zeller's (and many of those were Woolcos and before that, Sayvette) but it's in a much newer plaza.
It was. It was only there a few years before they built one on Hwy 2.That's more or less where I was guessing--there's that section with a second floor where they now have offices. Most Sayvettes had at least two floors, I believe.
They got a Wal-mart into that plaza? Must have been one of the Woolcos that they purchased.