Scarborough Photographs: Then and Now

[Michael Bruce]

Victoria Park Avenue & Surrey Avenue looking se 1959 - 2014

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[Michael Bruce]

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

 

[lenaitch]

Victoria Park Avenue & Surrey Avenue looking se 1959 - 2014
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We used to eat at that restaurant in the 60s when eating out was a very big deal for us (an aunt and uncle used to live near Vic. Pk. and Ellesmere. I never really knew the name of it - just called it the Good Food Restaurant, and always ordered the same thing - hot roast beef sandwich. I later had a colleague who grew up on Surrey. Tnx for the memory.

 

[Michael Bruce]

West side of Victoria Park looking north between Elvaston Dr & Draycott Dr - 1959 - 2014

 

[Isotack]

Victoria Park looking west just north of Sloane - 1959 - 2014
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Nicely done from 1968 when I was 7 years old I lived at 2 Biggin Court (I can actually see our balcony!) we then moved up the street to 1749 Victoria Park Avenue across from where Sloan Ave comes out ...after that it was on to 275 Cassandra Blvd Just south and across the street from The Parkway Plaza... Dr. Campbell was in the Surry Plaza. We moved to Ajax after that in 1975. So basically you covered much of my youth with your posts! No Zing Burger though ...too early and too late in those photos...lol

 

[Michael Bruce]

Nicely done from 1968 when I was 7 years old I lived at 2 Biggin Court (I can actually see our balcony!) we then moved up the street to 1749 Victoria Park Avenue across from where Sloan Ave comes out ...after that it was on to 275 Cassandra Blvd Just south and across the street from The Parkway Plaza... Dr. Campbell was in the Surry Plaza. We moved to Ajax after that in 1975. So basically you covered much of my youth with your posts! No Zing Burger though ...too early and too late in those photos...lol

Late 70's I lived at 1651 V.P. across from the Zingburger which later became the Chicken & Rib Shack. Torn down years ago Isotack and I think the whole strip mall is about to be demolished.

 

[Nancy]

Does anyone have any old photographs they would like to share of the ski hill located in the Rouge Valley south of the Zoo? It was at the end of Sheppard, or old Lansing cutoff, now called Twin River.
It was called Caper valley and was in operation in the early to mid seventies. I heard a story that it’s name “Caper” came from the factory about a kilometer away on the north side of Sheppard Ave. called Repac. Caper is Repac spelled backwards.

Here is a recent picture (Sept 2014), the second pic is of a concrete foundation (at the top of the hill) I assume to hold one of the ski lift poles. The third picture is of the steel cable (still in the bush) which was used for the ski lift.

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I used to ski there in the late 60s.

 

[Nancy]

Snake hill we used to call Twin rivers. By the old Glen Eagles. Old stomping ground before it burnt down sometime early yo mid 70s.