
By DAVID VAN DYKE
The heart of the Beach, Queen Street East and Lee Avenue.
My thanks to Raymond Montana for sharing this photograph (above) which he took looking west along Queen Street East in the summer of 1995!
Do you, like Ray, have an old photograph of Queen and Lee, or of Kew Gardens across the street?
Why not share it with our readers? Please contact me at: gdvandyke61@gmail.com

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Thanks for this oldish photo of my corner. I moved in ’85 so about 10 years before the picture was taken.
Not too many changes except for a few businesses moving in or out, changing names or locations.
I still call it the IGA and bank at the TD and moved with them across the road
I notice the Green P changed their design. Sorry to see the bus stop moved further west.
The main thing I miss are the newspaper boxes, subscribe now and look at the news online.
I imagine there may be no physical newspapers in another 10 or 20 years. C’est la vie.