By DAVID VAN DYKE There is a 40-year difference between the two photographs being featured in today’s edition of Deja Views. My thanks to Marilyn Job who sent me the image above that she captured on Wheeler Avenue, close to Queen Street East. When I first moved to Toronto in the middle of the 1980s, […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The above image was taken in 1967. We are looking westward on Queen Street East just by Victoria Park Avenue, with the entrance to the Neville Park Loop on the bottom left of the photo. There used to be many gas stations in the Beach. Please notice the Shell station on […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The heart of the Beach, Queen Street East and Lee Avenue, is featured today in Deja Views. Mark Wright captured the above image sometime in the 1970s. Do you have an old photograph of Queen Street East you’d like to share with our readership? Please contact me at gdvandyke61@gmail.com
By DAVID VAN DYKE Thank you to Aileen Pollock for sending us the photograph (above) of your house shortly after you bought it in 1983! It is located up the hill on Bellefair Avenue. Do you, like Aileen, have a picture of your house after you purchased it? Why not share it with our readership? […]
By David Van Dyke This archival photograph (above) depicting the southeast corner of Kingston Road and Balsam Avenue has an alarming story to tell. You see, the CIBC bank directly behind the photographer had just been robbed. Three squad cars and four detectives are on the case! Alex Gulin sent me this image (taken in […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE It being one of the wettest Augusts I can remember, I thought it appropriate to share this image, dropped off at our office with no name. To this nameless individual who supposedly took this picture at the bottom of Glen Manor Drive sometime in the 1970s, I say thank you so […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The intersection of Kingston Road and Main Street has changed so much since James Victor Salmon took this image above in 1954. Today, these crossroads are mostly residential with two huge condo developments. But did you know that more than 100 years ago, it was the second busiest intersection in Toronto? […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE Thank you to Francie Czerwinski for sending me a photograph (above) of your family home on Bracken Avenue! I believe the original photo was taken in the 1960s, and I strongly believe renovations have taken place since then. Do you, like Francie, have an old photo of your house you’d like […]
By DAVID VAN DYKE The photo above from the City of Toronto Archives shows the construction of the Silver Birch Avenue Boathouse in 1934. This is the furthest you can walk east along the Boardwalk. Beyond this point is sand, dogs and the R.C. Harris Water Treatment plant at the far east end of the […]
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 […]
