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Deja Views: A Greenwood racetrack grandstand memory

January 30, 2022January 27, 2022 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE After his wife passed, John Leslie Harrison moved to the Beaches Lions Centennial Apartments on Norway Avenue. He would regularly walk up to three kilometres a day, often with a camera in tow. The photograph above was taken in the late 1980s, and is looking north from Lake Shore Boulevard East […]

Deja Views: A Kimberley Avenue memory going back 15 years

January 16, 2022January 14, 2022

By DAVID VAN DYKE I first photographed this Kimberley Avenue house (photo above) in the mid 2000s. At the time, which was 2007, it sat on a huge undeveloped lot, close behind the fire hall on Main Street. Inevitably, townhouses later sprouted up on the land. Do you have any old photos of Kingston Road […]

Deja Views: Remembering Joseph Price and the family home on Glen Manor Drive

December 26, 2021December 24, 2021 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE This incredible hand-coloured photograph (above) is from Paul Warner who is the great grandson of Joseph Price, seen here, standing by his car. The Price brothers built more than 100 duplex and fourplex dwellings on the site where the Scarboro Beach Amusement Park used to be. This majestic estate is located […]

Deja Views: Sign of the times from 1979 near Gerrard and Main streets

December 5, 2021December 3, 2021 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE I grabbed the photo above from the Beach Metro Community News archives. The year is 1979 and the location is Gerrard Street East, just west of Main Street, at the gas station directly across the street from the Beach Metro Community News office. Yes, gas was cheap back then. I believe […]

Deja Views: A look back to 1954 and Carpets by Partington on Queen Street East

November 21, 2021November 18, 2021

By DAVID VAN DYKE Thank you, Carol Semple for sending me this incredible image from 1954. Carol’s father, John Partington, owned and operated Partington Carpets, It was located on Queen Street East in the Beach, not far from the firehall and across the street. Carol thinks that the car was her dad’s, and what a […]

Deja Views: A quadruple Deja Views looks at changing face of Wheeler Avenue

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE We’ve never done this before with Deja Views, but today we are publishing four photos. I guess you would call this stretch of Wheeler Avenue, just north of Norway Avenue, a developer’s dream. One by one, over the past 12 years the three homes beside each other were razed and replaced […]

Deja Views: Looking back at Queen Street East and Munro Park Avenue in 1936

October 24, 2021October 22, 2021

This archival photograph shown, looking southwest on Queen Street East towards Munro Park Avenue in the Beach, was taken in September of 1936. The photographer is unknown. If you have an old picture of the community, why not contact me. I’d love to see it. Please send photos to me by email at gdvandyke61@gmail.com

Deja Views: A look at Queen Street East, between Balsam and Beech, in the 1980s

October 10, 2021October 8, 2021

By David Van Dyke This is the last image of a series of photographs submitted by local historian Clyde Robinson. In the 1980s, a new condo was being built on Queen Street East between Balsam and Beech avenues. Photographer Chris DeBoer was documenting the progress and included other streetscapes close to the worksite. In this […]

Deja Views: Much has changed along Queen Street East since 1989

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

By DAVID VAN DYKE This stretch on “the sunny side” of Queen Street East between Herbert and Elmer avenues has seen some changes over the past decades. Not one of the shops depicted in the 1989 photo above is here today. Do you have a photograph of a storefront or business that isn’t around anymore […]

Deja Views: A look back at H. Waters Florist in the Beach

September 13, 2021September 15, 2021 0 Comments

By DAVID VAN DYKE Pat Buchanan’s great grandfather, Herbert Waters, immigrated to Canada from England in 1888. He was a florist and had greenhouses at Elmer and Norway avenues. At this point in time Elmer ended at Norway, and Norway was just a footpath to Lee Avenue. If any of our readership has a photo […]

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