By DAVID VAN DYKE Above is a nice shot of the front of a home on Wheeler Avenue from 1926. The photo is from the City of Toronto Archives. Photo below is the same house now. Do you have an old photo of your house you’d like to share with our readership? Please contact me […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Being a youngster in the 1970s meant you had to have a Wheelie Bike! Banana seats and sissy bars were the order of the day, as witnessed in this 1970s photograph of the intersection of Coxwell Avenue and Queen Street East. This view shows the southwest corner. Do you have an […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE How many Beachers remember Mac’s Milk? Once, they were everywhere. This photograph above was taken sometime in the 1970s. The view is looking northward on Kingston Road standing on Queen Street East. Do you have an old photo of Queen Street East or Kingston Road? Why not share it with our […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE This photograph (above) from the City of Toronto Archives of Kingston Road looks eastward, by Scarborough Road. Ciro’s Restaurant would not close its doors until 1979, so my guess is this photo was taken sometime in the 1970s, judging by the vehicles behind the streetcar. Do you have an old photograph […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE How much does a tree grow in 90 years? The semidetached and detached homes depicted in the archival image above were taken in December of 1933. The location is on Beech Avenue, just a little south of Kingston Road. Do you have an old photo of your house that you’d like […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The archival photograph above was taken in March of 1917. We are looking north on Bellefair Avenue, before Bellefair extended up to Juniper Avenue. At this time Norway Avenue (which is the cross street directly behind this viewpoint) was not a street but a footpath. I would like to ask our […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE This beautiful winterscape of the beach with several of the residences (bottom of Silver Birch Avenue) was photographed sometime in the 1930s. Some of the trees remain! Sadly, the birch trees depicted are long gone. Perhaps they were the inspiration for the street’s name. Do you have an old photo of […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The view in the photo above is looking eastward towards Brookside Avenue on Kingston Road in 1927. This archival photograph was taken 96 years ago! Many of the buildings from 1927 still stand today. Do you have an old image of Kingston Road you would like to share with us? Please […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Immediately west of the entrance to R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant on Queen Street East in the Beach, you will find the Neville Park Loop. TTC streetcars have been screeching around this east-end loop since 1922. This particular postcard (photo above) was shot in 1966 (the photographer is unknown) and I […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The location of these photos is where old Highway 2, also known as Kingston Road, meets Queen Street East. The photograph above was taken in the late 1970s. When was the last time you saw a Datsun? Do you have an old photograph of Queen Street East you’d like to share […]
