I mostly remember the strange looking bison in the High Park Zoo. He was a huge beast with one horn pointing up and the other horn pointing down.
Vintage Toronto
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Today there is no need to go out to meet people.
Most folks today sit at home anscroll on the 'smart' phone.
And get meals delivered to the home often from ghost kitchens.
I used to sneak in there as a high schooler, but well after this photo was taken....
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.
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".
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.
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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Back then Yonge St. was the ROCK & ROLL CAPITAL OF USA & CANADA. COLONIAL TAVERN, Featuring John Lee Hooker, Friars Tavern, Le Coq D'or, with Ian & Silvia, many others that I can't remember, (I am Sooo Old). The upfront lounge with Jackie Shane & on Bloor St. The Bellaire, the Riverboat on Yorkville St. where Gord Lightfoot began his career. Lastly, the Concord Tavern where is saw Levon Helm & The Band play. So many great memories, yes, THOSE WERE THE DAYS.
The Piccadilly Tube pub (building with the large circular sign on the left)
Rush , Triumph and even The Police played there in the 70's.
That block is Atrium on the Bay now.
Rush , Triumph and even The Police played there in the 70's.
That block is Atrium on the Bay now.
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nice shout out for Jackie Shane there, Eddie....saw him at a place in Crang Plaza Wilson And Jane
One of my favourite haunts, especially with Rummy Bishop expounding on his sexual peccadillos with dirty jokes between acts. The ladies came out dressed and stripped over four songs.
