@gmeslin.bsky.social
June 19, 1930.
Toronto Daily Star reader, ticketed for doing 35 in a 20, complains that county of York speed trap is a cash grab.
Thematic Halloween decorations in progress.
31.10.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The last time the Blue Jays were in the World Series, there was no CityPlace, no South Core, no Maple Leaf Square, no HTO Park, no WaveDecks, no Roundhouse Park, no aquarium, no Scotiabank Arena, no Well, and King West and the Entertainment District were still largely pre-condo.
24.10.2025 23:10 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
L: Dodger Stadium and surrounding contiguous parking.
R: Outline of above traced over Rogers Centre (SkyDome) and surrounding area.
If you’re in Etobicoke and looking for that final detail for your World Series viewing party, Sanremo has Blue Jays cakes.
24.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
I love the neighbourhood representations in these four ‘Where’s a Public Library?’ maps from the 1970s.
23.10.2025 17:12 — 👍 21 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
If you pass through Queen’s Park Station, take note of the fabrication dates on the exposed tunnel liners before they are tiled over. A cool detail that will soon be hidden once again.
Below:
20•10•60
24•1•61
8•2•61
July 6, 1995.
Time is a flat circle.
Shana Tova, from our cat to you.
24.09.2025 14:11 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0As noticed by @andrewlewisfc.bsky.social, the first photo is not 2007. Based on the state of the Ritz-Carlton, it would appear to be 2009.
15.09.2025 15:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I don’t mind persnickety - I like to be accurate! Based on the state of the Ritz in 2009 street view, that would seem to be the year the first photo was taken. (which raises many questions re: my file hygiene)
15.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two shots of Toronto’s central skyline, 18 years apart. Taken near the Centre Island ferry docks, 2007/2025.
15.09.2025 14:00 — 👍 68 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
The Star had a nice map that went along with their reporting on the riot.
14.09.2025 02:01 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gradient flower.
14.09.2025 01:47 — 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Toronto Island bathroom/concession pavilions (I really love these).
12.09.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Centreville intermodal transit hub (rail and swan boat).
12.09.2025 18:24 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
(I’m certain some have taken this as a challenge)
12.09.2025 18:18 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The giant @BikeShareTO rack by the Centre Island ferry dock is a great addition.
12.09.2025 18:16 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Same as it ever was. I had the strangest dream that a Ferry Terminal design competition took place over a decade ago.
12.09.2025 13:17 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1Which park?
03.09.2025 01:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Sorry - maybe a bad copy/paste? This seems to work:
dufferinpark.ca/cityplaygrou...
For any other playground nostalgists who may be interested, there exists an old Friends of Dufferin Grove Park web page with links to pictures of every piece of equipment in every City park playground, circa 1999. The shared results of an FOI request.
dufferinpark.ca/cityplayground…
Aneta Circle Parkette rocket ship, 1999.
02.09.2025 23:35 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1
Order of Canada for the designer of the Ontario Provincial Parks’ fire pits.
01.08.2025 22:32 — 👍 61 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
I like the places where a street breaks the grid, and you have building frontages parallel with the angled street while property lines and building interiors run with the grid and nearby side streets.
20.06.2025 03:09 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still such a beauty when it catches the full sun.
13.06.2025 00:13 — 👍 18 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Hulchanski, 1982.
09.06.2025 21:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was at an airport yesterday and some cruel, brilliant individual had put receptacle stickers on the walls and columns by the seats at the gates.
06.05.2025 00:45 — 👍 87 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 5
Interesting how ornamental metalwork hanging from the ceiling around the perimeter of the Bianca lobby is used to create texture through shadowplay.
18.04.2025 18:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
