Vintage Toronto
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I believe there's one left in the Victoria Park and Sheppard area, but I don't think it's as good as it used to be.
Allan Gardens, today it's a shell of its former self. Looks like a bit of a 3rd world in that area now.
Whenever I see pictures like this I can't help but wonder, where are the people from the picture now? Or how did they live out their lives?
And the squirrel as well.
I don't see those style park benches anymore, classic.
Whenever I see pictures like this I can't help but wonder, where are the people from the picture now? Or how did they live out their lives?
And the squirrel as well.
I don't see those style park benches anymore, classic.
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The Jolly Miller Tavern. A notorious hangout for high school boozers when I was a kid. I grew up in Don Mills. Probably has no significance if you grew up any where else.
I lived at Avenue Rd and Wilson from 1973 to 1994.
Been there a few times during those years and passed by it many times.
Didn't know about the rail line as shown photos, but thinking about it now, the line was probably for the trolley from basically Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe and vice versa.
IIRC that was Flash Jack's , drug paraphernalia shop on the lower level to the left of Zanzibar and on the top floor of that building in the 90's it was another strip joint called the "Bronze Rail".
Are you sure that was Flash Jack's???
I lived at that place every weekend, every downtown visit required my friend and I to go downstairs, to the right, right into poster heaven. Then we'd hit up World's Biggest and the arcades and none of that in any order but Flashjack was a must for those chick posters. That was my OF equivalent.
Funniest part was, my friend who was Canadian born, but Chinese(his mother wasn't), couldn't bring back any posters of girls back to his place because his mom would kill him.
So I would have to hold onto them until there was a time that he could sneak them into his room.
Pretty sure, I remember going downstairs to FJ'sAre you sure that was Flash Jack's???
I lived at that place every weekend, every downtown visit required my friend and I to go downstairs, to the right, right into poster heaven. Then we'd hit up World's Biggest and the arcades and none of that in any order but Flashjack was a must for those chick posters. That was my OF equivalent.
Funniest part was, my friend who was Canadian born, but Chinese(his mother wasn't), couldn't bring back any posters of girls back to his place because his mom would kill him.
So I would have to hold onto them until there was a time that he could sneak them into his room.
I loved that place, it was that or World biggest bookstore for me.
I'm sure you did, it was such a cool store that anyone that walked by it under the age of 30 couldn't resist not going down there. I'm trying to find pictures of it from the inside but never had any luck.
It's so vivid for me, left side of store, cashier, bongs, and glass cases of silver (rock) jewelery, animals, skulls, flags, knives whatever else.
T- shirts in the middle, classic shirts of rock bands, etc
Right side of store, the posters , an entire section on its own
Yes!, you described it perfectly, I got my T-shirts made there, a "Mr. Bill" one nd a "Lindsay Wagner"-Bionic" one, had big crush on her!!I loved that place, it was that or World biggest bookstore for me.
I'm sure you did, it was such a cool store that anyone that walked by it under the age of 30 couldn't resist not going down there. I'm trying to find pictures of it from the inside but never had any luck.
It's so vivid for me, left side of store, cashier, bongs, and glass cases of silver (rock) jewelery, animals, skulls, flags, knives whatever else.
T- shirts in the middle, classic shirts of rock bands, etc
Right side of store, the posters , an entire section on its own
It was fantastic being a teenager in the 70's wasn't it?. Heading to Yonge Dundas to hang out was a real treat. seedy atmosphere with all the unusual people you's see there on regular basis., the black kid who did a ventriloquist act for money, dude named "Alvis" who just about everyone called out to, Emanuelle Jacques , shoeshine boy that was murdered, .the blind guy pan handler who would say "Can you spare a nickel, a dime a quarter or a dollar?", the mentally challenged guy that sold pencils...etc
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I wasn't around then lol, for me it was the 90s. There were all sorts of cool characters on Yonge, loved it.
Comment section full of store names.
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Yonge street in the 1980s. What was your favourite shop? credit: Flickr/fintano
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Holy shit the DVP looked so good, guess it's all the green.
