Evocative Images of Lost Toronto

[DSCToronto]

or this reference to him in this 1965 book...

 

[schmitty101]

The stadium we located was finally gone by the time the DVP on-ramp (Royal Dr.) was completed in 1961

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Sorry to drag up an old post so much later on but was there ever any conclusion as to what this stadium was used for or was called? I've been going through the thread but couldn't pinpoint that information. Thanks!

 

[DSCToronto]

Sorry to drag up an old post so much later on but was there ever any conclusion as to what this stadium was used for or was called? I've been going through the thread but couldn't pinpoint that information. Thanks!

The internet says quite a lot more ....... e.g these entries:

Used for Baseball & Soccer (at least):

 

[schmitty101]

The internet says quite a lot more ....... e.g these entries:

Used for Baseball & Soccer (at least):

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Amazing! Thank you for finding that.

 

[yorkcounty]

Not a very good picture, but I am scrounging for more......Taken circa 1968 from in front of Fent's Variety..Looking north on the east side of Coxwell.....Our store is just barely visible beside the cleaners.....Cathay Foods,


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Not a very good picture, but I am scrounging for more......Taken circa 1968 from in front of Fent's Variety..Looking north on the east side of Coxwell.....Our store is just barely visible beside the cleaners.....Cathay Foods,


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Ricky and Bobby were my best friends back then. Great memories...

 

[Richard White]

He's great! He turned 89 recently.

Maybe I'm out of the loop but whatever happened to Goldie?

 

[lenaitch]

I saw this on FB. Apparently from the Ontario Hydro archives, around 1918. Canadian Northern facilities and (now) Hydro One Leaside TS.