Scarborough Photographs: Then and Now

[adma]

It would have been closer to 1940 than 1925--the dual carriageway came more or less in conjunction w/the Kingston-Danforth split in 1937

http://www.birchcliffnews.com/photo-of-the-day-nov-14-2012/

 

[junior43]

It would have been closer to 1940 than 1925--the dual carriageway came more or less in conjunction w/the Kingston-Danforth split in 1937

http://www.birchcliffnews.com/photo-of-the-day-nov-14-2012/

Unfortunately you're right. The photos must be from '37 or later - there's no streetcar tracks.

From this link http://www.scarboroughhistorical.com/

In July, 1936, the radial car line along the Kingston Road was abandoned and replaced with buses and although the street cars were extended to Birchmount from 1928 to 1954, rapid rail transit in Scarborough ceased until 1967 when GO-Transit began along the lakeshore.

Looks like someone cheaped out on keeping the streetcars running out to west hill when they upgraded the road.

 

[brewster]

West side of Victoria Park looking north between Elvaston Drive and Draycott Drive Seager Motors on the left--1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking sw approx where Sloane Avenue would be built --1959-2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking nw north of Lawrence Avenue East --1959-2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking sw approx where Sloane Avenue would be built --1959---2014

 

[lrookies]

Nice pics. Interesting feeling...I grew up downtown and did not know Scarborough until my friends moved there in late 69 or so. Looking at these photos, the "Pioneering" that went on in Scarborough, I have come to realize was not all that long ago. Where I live now, north east Scarborough was mostly farmland just two years before my wife, my kids and I moved there in February of 1983.

And Scarborough was its own city....amalgamation had its pluses, I suppose...I just can't think of any. Ha ha.

 

[Goldie]

I may have posted these photos before, however they illustrate the massive changes in Scarborough between 1955 and 1962.
The diagonal street was once called Danforth Road - now named Painted Post Rd.

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park looking west just north of Sloane--1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking se to 1751 VP--1959-2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue and Surrey Avenue looking se 1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking nw towards Lawrence Avenue East -- 1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking ne to Biscayne Blvd. -- 1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue looking ne to Biscayne Blvd --1959--2014

 

[brewster]

Victoria Park Avenue and Deanvar Avenue looking north --1959--2014