Deja Views: Taking a look back along Woodbine Avenue in 1955

By DAVID VAN DYKE

This grouping of semi-detached houses (shown in photo above) sits on Woodbine Avenue, just a little south of Kingston Road. The year is 1955.

Let’s do a comparative cost-of-living analysis taken from the middle of the 1950s.

Petrol was seven cents a litre. A bag of groceries was under 10 dollars. Property taxes were 1.5 percent of the assessed value of your home and the average cost of your Toronto, semi-detached house was $15,000 to $17,000.

Do you have an old photograph of Woodbine Avenue?

Please consider sharing it with our readership. Contact me at gdvandyke61@gmail.com